JEFFERSON BEAUREGARD
SESSIONS has had memory problems in the past. When he failed to be
nominated for US District court in Alabama in 1986, witnesses accused him of
saying ACLU was un-American and that a white civil rights lawyer was "a
disgrace to his race"; just a few of the many awful comments that he did
not recall making
After the shameful
hearing yesterday, June 13, 2017, Andy Borowitz wrote a superb commentary in The New Yorker
magazine on Sessions’ mental well being:
Man Ravaged by Amnesia Somehow Able to Hold Down Demanding Legal Job
An Alabama man whose
brain was ravaged by severe amnesia is somehow able to function in an extremely
demanding legal job, leading neurologists reported on Tuesday.
The man, whom
neurologists are calling a “medical mystery,” has performed highly exacting tasks
in one of the country’s top legal positions despite having virtually no short-
or long-term memory.
Dr. Davis Logsdon,
the chairman of the neurology department at the University of Minnesota Medical
School, said that the Alabaman’s brain “defies explanation.”
“In all the medical
literature, we have never seen an example of someone capable of holding down
such a high-powered job while having no memory whatsoever of people he met,
things he said, places he has been, or thoughts he has had,” Logsdon said.
“It’s the stuff of science fiction.”
Logsdon said that his
team of neurologists was studying video of the man in the hopes of
understanding the paradoxical functioning of his brain, but
Logsdon acknowledged that such a task was challenging. “After listening to
him talk for hours, your own brain starts to hurt,” he said.
Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling
author of “The
50 Funniest American Writers,” and a comedian who has written for The
New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report, a
satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.
