Perhaps it is more appalling to have a war criminal like Douglas Feith, hired by a place of higher learning, then to have honorary degrees bestowed on the likes of Condeleeza Rice, when both should be at the Hague exlpaining the vaguries of pre-emptive warfare- but it is not without precedent. Kenneth Starr was rewarded for heading up his attack on the American democratic system by becoming the dean of Pepperdine Law School in Southern California.

With 1 out of every 136 people in America in jail, surely we have just a little more room for the Feith's, Rice's, Rumsfeld's, and all those collectively known as the Bushists. I mean, if jails aren't for mass murderers and war criminals, then what are they there for?

Lest we forget,

This is the same guy who promoted invading a South American country because that would be the last thing Al Quaida would suspect us to do.

There is no depth to this man's stupidity.

It's the Jesuits, stupid...

Fascists from founding, onward.

This embrace of Douglas Feith is no surprise whatsover.

What next? Professor Bush? George W,. that is. Going to be fun to be a student and impossible to beat the nonabilities of these liars.

What next? Professor Bush? George W,. that is. Going to be fun to be a student and impossible to beat the nonabilities of these liars.

That Douglas Feith would hold a position in the Bush Administration is proof that the majority of American people are even more stupid, and sadly don't give a damn about what happens to their country. In other words, "I've got mine, how're YOU doing?" Why else would Congress approve our invading Iraq? Did anyone do a background check on Feith? Do we run background checks on Congress? A country run by morons, for morons ...

Ann Coulter is a woman?

Years ago when Robert Bork was being considered for a slot on the Supreme Court, I suddenly had an insight. I realized he was nuts. I had read some of his opinions as part of my work in I/O psychology, and then when I heard about some of his other writings and saw him speak the light went off: Asperger's syndrom.

I have come to the strong suspicion that several of the leading lights in the "neocon" movement may be suffering the aftermath of similar conditions. Douglas Feith is one on my leading suspects.

A competent professional (I am a psychologist, but not a clinician) would need records from the early childhoods of these people to see if the diagnosis would stick, but I think it is a serious possiblity.

The basic behaviorial profile is of a very bright person--particularly good analytic skills--and absolutely no empathy or social sense. These are people who are incapable of checking the practical consequences of their "good" ideas. I have some economists on my list of suspects as well.

Maybe it is time to begin a new discipline of public psychiatry: an attempt to spot the serious psychopathology of public figures before they can do more damage. Note: they almost all suffer from narcissisum, so that doesn't count.

I am shocked that Georgetown would hire this guy, particularly, if the article is correct, without factuly input. That raises serious questions about the instituition's status as a univeristy.

After a lifetime of being described as "weird" I discovered the literature about Asperger's syndrome, and it seems to fit me like a glove. But it doesn't mean the person is inherently a mean-spirited bastard like Feith or Bork.

I think, for example, that novelist Richard Wright may have had a touch of that, in his inability to comprehend the contradictory aspects of segregation that everybody else of his time was just supposed to naturally understand. Dan Ackroyd describes himself as an Aspie but he doesn't seem like a mean, snippy person like Bork. I may be, as I suspect, an Aspie but I also organize trash pickups on canoe trips, hold doors for people and just generally try to be a good person. Many Aspies are actually very idealistic.

I suppose that's what makes me so weird - if I was "normal" I would have no problem selling lemon cars to poor people, demanding that our government seize oil-rich countries to power an SUV for me, having sex with a woman and then loudly bragging about the intimate details to my beer-drinkin' buddies, and going to law school to learn how to screw people on a technicality. You know - "normal" behavior.

I think there is a more descriptive term than Asperger's syndrome, it is McNamara syndrome. McNamara was a "systems analyst"from the auto industry ( Ford i believe) who with his colleagues earned the nickname "whizkids". Kennedy recruited him into the secretary of defense position, and as a result, the Viet Nam War became known as McNamara's war, because no one else was enough of a "whizkid" to know what it was about. I guess we thought, at one time anyway, that Iraq held an oil windfall for the U.S. I think we know that there will be no windfall while there is fighting goin on, and if the fighting ends, we are out, never to be welcome again. I vote that we call this situation McNamara Syndrome, the honor the deja vue we have due to the parallels with Viet Nam