President Obama wants to invest an initial $110 million in a study of the human brain that could have benefits as great as those achieved by the Human Genome Project. Maybe the first study should be done on the one-track minds of tea party Republicans, who will undoubtedly oppose funding for the study because their brains are fixated on the single idea that government can do nothing right.
After that, researchers could move on to figuring out Sarah Palin’s brain. Perhaps they could answer this question: How can a person with so little knowledge and so little interest in acquiring knowledge imagine that she has what it takes to be president of the United States? Is it an example of the George W. Bush effect? (“Hey, if he can be president, anybody can.”) Inquiring minds want to know.
Look as much as I usually support the idea of scientific exploration, I think Sarah Palin's mind is kind of like "Pandora's box." In other words, some things are best left locked up tight.
One can only imagine the dark twisty convoluted corridors constructed to keep her secrets hidden from view and the steel spring traps she has laid for those who would attempt to untie the Gordian knot of her psyche.
After all this is a woman who has constructed layers upon layers of mythology to hide her true nature from public scrutiny. I don't think even Indiana Jones would have the balls to enter that death trap.
Other than that I think this brain mapping thing, and its potential for uncovering information that will help to treat traumatic brain injuries and alleviate the suffering of those with Alzheimer's, sounds amazing.
However I would also give up on trying to understand the brains of the Teabaggers. Some things science simply cannot hope to fathom.
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