So many angry young men

Wisdom teeth or third molars are the last, most posteriorly placed permanent teeth to erupt. They usually erupt into the mouth between 17 and 25 years of age. 

On the topic of Expected Behavior

The Buffalo shooter had a toothache

And that article is totally full of shit about why that matters.   It's not political.

Having a toothache for six months will make you crazy.   Period.  Chronic Septicemia will make you desperate and obsessive.  This Is Predictable Behavior.

But you don't get to choose your obsession.  Righteousness and impulsivity just take over your mind.

I predicted exactly this type of bullshit at the beginning of the pandemic.   So many boys trapped in their basements with their sugary snacks, dental infections, internet induced outrage... and guns.

My Proposal

If you old nasty men want to go back to the 1950's, that's fine.

We'll start by removing your coronary artery stents.  No modern technology for you.

As I was saying

 A completely predictable outcome. But of course.   

A new University of Florida Health study found that men with COVID-19 are more than three times more likely to be diagnosed with erectile dysfunction, or ED, than those who are not sickened by the coronavirus. The paper adds to emerging evidence that COVID-19 might impact sexual function, researchers said.

The Goddess Nemesis has chosen the most appropriate punishment for the recent excessive displays of hubris.

You don't get to choose your obsession

Putin has Parkinson's. His daughter admitted it last year. Recent video show his impairment and this picture shows he has no facial muscle tone, also known as a Parkinson's mask.

A prescription for L-dopa would explain a whole lot about his recent behavior. L-dopa is well documented to cause obsessive-compulsive behavior. Sex and gambling addictions are a big problem doctors are told to watch for.   

My father was lucky. He didn't leave his wife or squander all his money. He became obsessed with Roy Orbison's music. He played the same double album over and over on giant speakers at ridiculous levels for months. I thought that was pretty inconsiderate and annoying... but at least he wasn't a sociopath and didn't have access to tanks or nukes at the time.  

Behold the power of dopamine.

Russians 'totally devastated' after Putin flushed their economy 'down the toilet in five days'.

Update 4.21.20    Here's a new video

Say OH

Finally, something that isn't apocalyptically depressing to write about. 

I have been testing this theory for a number of years.  I know it works. 

It just won an IgNobel prize for Medicine.

Go Figure.

Can Sex Improve Nasal Function?—An Exploration of the Link Between Sex and Nasal Function

Nasal breathing improved significantly after sexual intercourse with climax to the same degree as after application of nasal decongestant for up to 60 minutes.

It also works backwards, if you clean and lubricate your mouth and sinuses, sex improves.  Seriously.

(on a tangent- I'm guessing this could be a trigger for hominins evolving hidden ovulation and constant sexual availability.   Bipedalism has messed up our upper respiratory system.)

Anyhow- the behavioral consequences of ignoring this phenomenon are endless. Entire medico-psycho-pharma-prison industries are built on nasal and sexual dysfunction.

And yet is is ridiculed.

This may be only thing Freud got right.

Sepsis and Cognitive Dissonance

Household name antidepressants may be helping some patients survive COVID-19.

Knowing that “cytokine storms” are associated with severe cases of Covid-19, Reiersen contacted her colleague Eric Lenze about doing a study together. The pair conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled study to determine if early use of the antidepressant fluvoxamine by Covid-19 patients could reduce severe outcomes. The researchers found that clinical deterioration occurred in 0 of 80 patients in the fluvoxamine and in 6 of 72 in the placebo group.

Now, studies in at least three countries — France, the United States, and Germany — support the idea that certain antidepressants can be an effective early treatment for Covid-19.

Ahhh  memories ...

Greetings from the Goddess Nemesis

I'm guessing he's been told he needs to have that long-infested parotid gland removed.  Looks like it's about to burst.   Seriously, I don't even have to highlight it for you.   Covid probably fucked it all up.  He looks quite ill.

He knows exactly what he's going to look like.   He's the one freaking out.

Bingo

Well how about that, I do have Kristallnacht on my card.

State of the Insanity

 The president's berserkergang broke into the seat of Congress while it was in session, urinated on the floors, and wiped feces on the walls.    Not to mention killing a police officer and attempting to find and lynch the vice president.

As I said before, when you are septic you are capable of anything.

This is the ultimate reason we need universal health and dental care:  To stop insanity.  To prevent terrorism.

No Mercy

Previously on "2020":

The New York Times reported that Trump’s financial documents reveal the president’s three family trusts held investments in Regeneron as well as pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, which itself is a major shareholder in Regeneron.

New from the Writers:

Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered in late summer to sell the U.S. government additional doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, according to people familiar with the matter. Now Pfizer may not be able to provide more of its vaccine to the United States until next June because of its commitments to other countries, they said.

State of the Insanity

Federal agents guard Fauci so "nobody tries to break in [to my home] and, as Steve Bannon would like, have somebody behead me"'.

Honor this man.  Be Sane.  Stay home.  Wear a mask if you don't.  

Been here, done this.

Zero stars.  Don't recommend it.

 A Brain Infection Made Me Forget Nearly Everything. Here’s How I Became Myself Again.

Mine was caused by antibiotic induced sepsis.   

I spent every day holding on to my biology facts.  Surfing pubmed.  So I could figure it out before I forgot everything.  Jettisoned everything else.  People, places, music, recipes, html, computer programs- all gone.  I'm a cataloging librarian who forgot how to classify.  Still don't remember the dates of my own life events.  

It was very, very bad.

(And yet dealing with DJT is somehow way worse...)

Honestly

 These are the guys who don't want to wear medical masks.

Now back to our previously scheduled hijacking.

The pandemic is worse than ever. The worst in the universe.   Morgue trailers are happening again.

Ben Carson, once a brain surgeon, tested positive for COVID-19 this morning. Carson attended the election night party at the White House

It's cold outside. People's noses are dried out and swollen. They are hanging out indoors eating carbs.

You know, all the things on my "respiratory infection predictable habits" list...

And next week sometime the Supreme Court will decide to crush the ACA.  Leaving millions without health care options.

And while the Great and Glorious OZ is screeching about voter fraud to distract you-
He seems to be ready to hand off large parts of America's strategic resources to his partners in crime...

Trump reportedly pushing through 5g deal that would enrich his friends

The White House is urging the Pentagon to fast track “what would essentially be a no-bid contract to lease the Department of Defense's mid-band spectrum—premium real estate for the booming and lucrative 5G market—to Rivada Networks, a company in which prominent Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump have investments.”

Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests

Guessing this has something to do with no-bid contracts too-

Trump administration fires three agency heads in wake of US election

The administration fired Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Bonnie Glick, deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, and Neil Chatterjee, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

He's surely criming right now.   I am assuming he is currently "making a deal" for the mining rights to the Grand Canyon.  

Because Arizona.