Half of all Americans are Brain Dead (Online Journal, Commentary)

(While searching for an article at Online Journal, I came across this commentary from just before the November election, which I sure, most of us here missed)

Half of all Americans are brain dead

By Carla Binion
Online Journal Contributing Editor

October 2, 2004—Scientists now believe that roughly half of all Americans today are brain dead. Well, not technically, but functionally brain dead.

Interestingly, the average BDA (Brain Dead American) might also be an MBA or even an MD. Yes, scientists show an individual can be functionally brain dead and still hold a college degree. Individuals with BDA in their DNA may not always drool or pronounce "nuclear" as "nukyooler," but, to a person, they can't distinguish Saddam Hussein from Osama bin Laden. Not surprisingly, each BDA we interviewed plans to vote for George W. Bush.

Paleoanthropologists tell us the human race was slow to evolve in many areas. For example, from the time human beings developed the power to speak until someone made the connection between having sexual relations and pregnancy, eighty-to-ninety-thousand years passed. Our research has found that early ancestors of today's BDAs were slower to develop language than were those of non-BDAs. Scientists have related this "slow-language gene" to today's BDAs' preference for Fox TV "news" and for programs featuring talk show hosts Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.

Researchers clarify the cause of the Hannity/Limbaugh syndrome by explaining that the BDAs' ancestors took centuries to make the distinction between sounds that made sense and ones that didn't. The BDAs' ancestors' earliest verbal efforts included the faint chanting of the sounds, "Flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop," which they droned endlessly, somewhat dazed, in response to the first complex sentence ever uttered by a non-BDA ancestor.

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