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That's all you need to know about my reaction to this.

Chief Justice Roberts Is Hospitalized After Seizure
By LINDA GREENHOUSE

WASHINGTON, July 30 — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was hospitalized on today after suffering a seizure at his summer home in Maine, the Supreme Court announced.

The episode, described as a “benign idiopathic seizure,” was similar to one he suffered 14 years ago, according to the court’s press release. Idiopathic means that the cause of the seizure remains unknown.

He had no lasting effects from the earlier incident and was “fully recovered” from the seizure he suffered about 2 p.m. today, the court said, adding that the chief justice had undergone “a thorough neurological evaluation, which revealed no cause for concern.”

He was to remain overnight “as a precaution” at Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport.

The seizure caused a fall, in which he “experienced minor scrapes,” the court said.

Christopher Burke, a spokesman for Penobscot Bay Medical Center, told The Associated Press, “It’s my understanding he’s fully recovered.”

 

I wonder how he really is.

I wonder how he really is. Is this a stroke?

I refuse to answer on the

I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might enjoy myself. Though I assume and "idiopathic seizure" is something idiots must fear.

The alarm bell for me is that this happened 14 years ago

He's a privileged, rich, White male....and has been from birth. Why is he having health issues?

Either he's a genetic

Either he's a genetic defective or he overindulged his rish white maleness.

I think I figured out what

I think I figured out what his problem is.

All the experts quoted in news coverage this morning seem to agree that Mr. Roberts can now be classified as “epileptic.” Two seizures — or little storms in the brain’s electrical system, as The Associated Press put it — are the only criterion. It’s “a common condition among Americans,” The New York Times reported today with a few statistics:

The approximate risk of having a single seizure in one’s lifetime is 9 percent. By Chief Justice Roberts’s age, the risk is 7 to 8 percent. About 3 percent have a recurrence, and 1 percent of Americans at any one time are under treatment for epilepsy.

I figure the attempt to override the neural impulses generated by physical reality with a purely ideational structure made his brain short out until the circuit breakers kicked in. The fact that so many Americans have the problem supports my guesstimation here.

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