What Does Hillary Want? Jun 16, 2008
To hide the lobotomy scar. What about a Supreme Court nomination. (Human Events Online)
Really voting for Barr? May 23, 2008
So he had a lobotomy. Now he s well again. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
LETTERS: NCT, May 21, 2008 May 22, 2008
Until then, don't insult us with commercials saying you want people to thrive, as your doctors increasingly suggest I give my son a chemical lobotomy ... Second, I am not sure whether it is she who considers psychotropic drugs to be "a chemical lobotomy" or whether that phrase (or something similar) has been used by a physician ... Third, if she is of the belief that all psychotropic drugs are "a chemical lobotomy", I think that she has an attitude problem and needs some counseling. (North County Times)
Woman pleads not guilty in bank fraud case (142) May 16, 2008
" Byrd wrote on May 15, 2008 2:05 PM:" someone needs a lobotomy " finksburg resident wrote on May 15, 2008 2:05 PM:" someone slipped me someone elses medicine. I am going to just sit back and relax now. (Carroll County Times, MD)
Your Opinion May 8, 2008
Is this female doctor and society saying that I need a lobotomy like the one given Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. Presently, I am ashamed because of the United States history book used for sixth graders in Hopewell at Carter G. Woodsen elementary school. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
Needed: tough-love leadership May 2, 2008
As for Wild Bill Hiltner, I hope you have some excuse lobotomy or drugs. or are joking. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
In search of the good old nervous breakdown Apr 15, 2008
"It may have even garnered a certain cache, since celebrities and movie stars like Frances Farmer and Judy Garland were often described as having nervous breakdowns, even when their problems might have more accurately been described as alcoholism or prescription drug abuse. In the 1961 Academy Award-winning movie, Splendor in the Grass, Natalie Wood plays a lovesick young woman from a small town in Kansas who is institutionalized after being abandoned by her boyfriend, a wealthy Yale... (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
In defense of the unemployed(s) Apr 3, 2008
I could buy underwear and shampoo for Britney or a skirt and a bottle of tears for Hillary and sue the doctor who gave Paula the lobotomy. I'm certain that if I changed their lives around I could get a cut of their future earnings -- or at least sell some sort of hair extension product with their names on it. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Can Obama cure TV's Blitzeritis? Mar 26, 2008
Granted, doing live TV is tantamount to flying without a net and merits some slack; still, that's no excuse for the lobotomy performed on ABC's latenight mag under a tri-anchor format including Terry Moran or the relentless banality of CNN's "The Situation Room," where Wolf Blitzer's interviews often seem to ignore the answers in his quest for urgency and volume. Perhaps that's why Obama's speech was so bracing -- not strictly for its content but the candidate's refusal to bow to cable news... (Variety)
DiMasi hits the jackpot by blocking casino plan Mar 21, 2008
(Now, one might argue that a doctor isn't required to perform a lobotomy on himself at his patient's request, but that would be churlish. . (Boston Globe)
Oswego County man sentenced to 131 years for sexually abusing young boys Mar 20, 2008
karl L wrote on Mar 19, 2008 2:59 PM:" Its always sad to hear of one adult abusing young kids like this, but to hear of a WOMAN watching it happen? There HAS to be drugs of some sort involved here--or a lobotomy? ". Farmer's Gal wrote on Mar 19, 2008 2:28 PM:" It's about time one of these horrible abusers received a REAL sentence.... ". (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Letters to the Editor - 3/9/2008 Mar 15, 2008
State-mandated lobotomy. Tony San Miguel. (North County Times)
Not willing to pay for patience Mar 15, 2008
Hey Katie, sorry about your lobotomy. It must really s*ck having to sit there and watch all us having fun at a hockey game. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Heaven help the Spirit Mar 7, 2008
Seriously, I love the Thrashers, but something must be done heart transplant, lobotomy, Zhitnikectomy something. By Poor White Thrash. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
The 10 best rock bands ever Feb 29, 2008
$7 online stock trades. A purely subjective list of the groups that changed music forever. (MSNBC -- Music)
Debate regarding appropriateness of novel dominates much of meeting Feb 21, 2008
Bromden's actions result after McMurphy has been effectively silenced, having been given a lobotomy by hospital authorities. That medical action in turn spurs Chief to suffocate the formerly rebellious McMurphy, deeming untenable the representative action of state authorities in squelching the impassioned albeit often fractious and unseemly McMurphy. (Mexico Ledger, MO)
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Feb 9, 2008
People still associate forced psychiatric care with images from decades past of zonked-out looking people with lobotomy scars being pushed in wheelchairs by an unsmiling Nurse Ratched. Consequently, mental health care professionals have gone overboard to make sure the treatment of mental illnesses is as non-intrusive as possible. (Globe and Mail -- National)
Banking on Diesel Feb 7, 2008
O'Neal might have to undergo a lobotomy to fit in with the Suns. Sure, he'll change them into more of a half-court team when he's out there, but for the first time in his career, he won't be the primary option in the post. (CBS News)
* [BOOK REVIEW] Think Hemingway, a crazy femme fatale and a macho man Feb 3, 2008
(She imprisons her mother in their summerhouse and binds and gags her, because, she says, she believes her mother wants her to have a lobotomy. More mad than madcap, she is prone to "dangerous, erratic behavior and wild exaggerations and outright lies," and was once arrested with a gun, apparently stalking one of her ex-husbands. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Harbhajan's words make the cut but others' not fit for print Feb 2, 2008
Did he have neck surgery or a lobotomy. Tim Egan, Mosman. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Missing girl found with father Jan 27, 2008
Mom needs medical treatment--tubal ligation and lobotomy. Posted by: joelis on Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:12 am. (Florida Today)
Conservatives, Taxpayers and Kids WinLiberals Flail Jan 23, 2008
George, TexasJan 23, 2008 @ 05:34 AMgeorge- go back to your commie liberal site and the far left loonies and leave us here who are trying to actually use our brains to think and reason alone :) thank you :) steve, michJan 23, 2008 @ 05:53 AMGeorge, when did you have your lobotomy. Or were you born without the ability to think. (Human Events Online)
Health/Science Calendar Jan 21, 2008
MONDAY, JAN. 21Lobotomy reexamined WGBH 2 will continue its series "American Experience" with a new episode about Walter Freeman, the neurologist who developed lobotomy as a surgical approach to reducing psychotic symptoms. Airs at 9 p.m. on Channel 2 and again throughout the week on Channels 2 and 44. (Boston Globe)
The Lobotomist: A review Jan 19, 2008
Janice Jones-Thomson, daughter of patient Beulah Jones, says that after her mother received a lobotomy, there was "no change in her behavior except that she lost her higher intellect." By the 1950s, lobotomies began to lose favor with the medical community, as long-term observations became available ... Howard Dully, who received a lobotomy at age 12, says in the film: "I've always felt that something was taken from me, that there was a piece missing, because my life has never gone well." By... (The Scientist)
Don't Take The Money, Just Run Jan 18, 2008
Holmes, with Alice Cooper hair and crazy Jim Carrey eyes, looks terrible and acts worse, unless this movie is unintentionally a lobotomy documentary. Whatever could have happened to her in the last couple of years to zap the talent out of her like this. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Holmen man gets prison for having sex with teen Jan 16, 2008
" (Finger wagging in the air.) Snip-snip is NOT the answer. Might just frustrate them into more agressive acts. Maybe a lobotomy . . . ". Bill O'reilly wrote on Jan 16, 2008 7:58 AM:" I wonder if they get the Tribune in prison?? Then I began to wonder if Kevin Lintereur was looking forward to 4 or 9 inches today. Snow I mean...... ". (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain Jan 15, 2008
At the age of 12, Howard Dully was given a lobotomy, one of thousands performed by the notorious Dr Walter Freeman in the 1940s and 1950s ... He had undergone a lobotomy and no one, not his parents, not the medical community or the state authorities, had intervened to stop it ... The hospital report stated that he had been given a 'transorbital lobotomy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Woman mauled to death by pit bulls Dec 31, 2007
Stinko wrote on Dec 30, 2007 9:15 AM:" To: Pit bulls aren't the only ones. You should consider professional help. I understand they still use shock treatments. I think you are way past counseling. Maybe you should consider a lobotomy. Your comments are very disturbing. Were you born this way or were you trained to think like this? It's time like this when I ask myself "What would the dog whisperer say. " I can only hope that you don't live anywhere near me. ". (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Year of celebrity meltdowns Dec 29, 2007
It's hard to define exactly the arresting expression on her face, but it hints at an emotional state somewhere between defiance and defeat, suggestive simultaneously of simmering hysteria and the placid absence of a lobotomy patient. This moment, the one in which Britney Spears grabbed the shears and laid herself physically and emotionally bare in front of the world, wasn't by any means the rock-bottom point in a year when we have seen stars behaving dementedly in greater depth and more detail... (Belfast Telegraph)
Cops: KFC manager beat to death with chair Dec 15, 2007
Can you say lobotomy. wrote on Dec 13, 2007 11:57 AM:" I think I have an answer that will make everyone happy. Anti-death penalty people as well as those of us who don't want to waste tax-payer $$$$ on repeat offenders like this monster... Have you seen the movie "One flew over the cuckoo's nest"? Give animals like this a lobotomy and send him home to his loving family. ". (Munster Times, IN)
The shame of drink-driving Dec 13, 2007
A member of my family had the equivalent of a full frontal lobotomy when his forehead was smashed in when he was hit by a drunk driver as he cycled home from work. Twenty years on, his personality is still fundamentally altered and the lives of his wife and children have been ruined. (BBC News -- UK)
Naman Crowe: America's prayer problem Oct 17, 2007
Get it out of our heads, even if you have to perform a pre-frontal lobotomy on us, that we have a moral responsibility to rule over the world in our own best interest by means of war whenever we feel it necessary. Move our thinking in the direction of realizing that the only way to get to peace is through peaceful ways rather than by war. (Catoosa County News, GA)
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE CONSOLIDATED BUDGET Oct 1, 2007
MAYFLOWER (Porter, The Providence Journal) -- Nathaniel Philbrick's new book "Mayflower'' examines the sad and very bloody early conflicts pilgrims had with Indians, a much different tale than what we now celebrate on Thanksgiving. 900. COMMENT MERCER (Mercer, Media General -- Column) -- WASHINGTON: Strengthening the GI Bill seemed easy when Democrats took control of Congress. But none of the two-dozen proposals has made it out of committee. What's going on? 700. HEALTH MYLOBOTOMY (Guthmann, San... (Scripps Howard News Wire)
'My Lobotomy' tells tale of medical surivor Sep 29, 2007
Slug: mylobotomy Date: 2007-09-30 00:00:00 Version: original Wire Category: A Words: 756 Bytes: 26112 E-Pub: N Use Warning: Must credit the San Francisco Chronicle. My Lobotomy' tells tale of medical surivor ... -- "MY LOBOTOMY" ($24. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
TV Ratings Showdown: NBC 'BIONIC WOMAN' Beats ABC's ' GREY'S ANATOMY' Spin-Off... Sep 28, 2007
Private Practice was lame as expected - don't how that lazy eyed dumb slut from Grey's Lobotomy got her own series - screwing the producers. Somebody say "LesBionic Woman". (The Drudge Report)
Get behind the horrifying truth of 'My Lobotomy' Sep 27, 2007
Excerpt from 'My Lobotomy' - USATODAY.com ... Excerpt from 'My Lobotomy ... Reprinted from the book My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming. (USA Today -- Life)
Four memoirs of family ties — and family lies Sep 27, 2007
My Lobotomy plunges like a knife into the brain which is exactly what happened to the author ... Then he designed his own lobotomy knife. (USA Today -- Life)
His lobotomy, his recovery, in his words Sep 27, 2007
When he was 12, she arranged for the boy to have a transorbital lobotomy ... "(He) swirled them around," Dully writes, "until he felt he had scrambled things up enough." The lobotomy took 10 minutes to perform ... This is the story that Dully, a 58-year-old San Jose bus driver, tells in his memoir, "My Lobotomy" ($24. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Taking Sides in a Tasing Sep 21, 2007
Kerry is such a lobotomy job. It is bizarre. (New York Times)
No Tank For This Team! Five Keys to Ball State, Recovery Sep 21, 2007
" It is where the greatest threats to both the dominion and very idea of the heavenly kingdom are kept. A college athlete can do no worse than go in the tank. It means he's shut off the pilot light or he's about to "get his" at the expense of the team. In the rarest, vilest cases, it's a player who becomes for sale to certain bookies, or a willing confit on whom boosters dote. It's like an original sin against the spirit of the game, a lobotomy on athletic competition; after the tank, anything's... (Nebraska Statepaper)
Junkyard Blawg Sep 17, 2007
Heck I bet I could beat you in a battle of wits with a lobotomy handicap thrown in just to make it fair. I would expect an apology to War, but I don t think you are, in the words of my cousin Pat Dye, Man enough. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Book Review: My Lobotomy Sep 17, 2007
My Lobotomy: A Memoir By Howard Dully and Charles Fleming Illustrated ... Unlike millions of other boys fitting the same description, at age 12 he underwent a transorbital lobotomy to cure his supposed psychological problems ... Forty years of misery ensued, recalled by Dully in a celebrated documentary broadcast on National Public Radio in November 2005 and now, in collaboration with Charles Fleming, in the harrowing "My Lobotomy.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The erasing of Iraq Sep 12, 2007
A local merchant said of the museum, "It was the soul of Iraq. If the museum doesn't recover the looted treasures, I will feel like a part of my own soul has been stolen." McGuire Gibson, an archaeologist at the University of Chicago, called it "a lot like a lobotomy. The deep memory of an entire culture, a culture that has continued for thousands of years, has been removed" ... But many Iraqis were, and still are, convinced that the memory lobotomy was intentional - part of Washington's plans... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Blum: To Laugh Again Sep 12, 2007
Okay, Bush ain't gonna get out of Iraq no matter what anyone says or does short of a) impeachment, b) a lobotomy, or c) one of his daughters setting herself afire in the Oval Office as a war protest. A few days ago, upon arriving in Australia, "in a chipper mood", he was asked by the Deputy Prime Minister about his stopover in Iraq. (Zmag.org)
Review: Howard Dully's memoir about having a lobotomy at age 12 Sep 11, 2007
Article:Review: Howard Dully's memoir about having a lobotomy a:/c/a/2007/09/10/DD2QRJ1QN.DTL Article:Review: Howard Dully's memoir about having a lobotomy a:/c/a/2007/09/10/DD2QRJ1QN.DTL ... Freeman popularized the lobotomy even though he had no formal training in surgery (nor did he believe in using antiseptics) ... In 1936, he and his partner, James Watts, became the first American doctors to perform a prefrontal lobotomy, using a coring tool to sever the connections between the brain and its... (San Francisco Chronicle)
We'd miss Andruw's candor Aug 29, 2007
Nurse Ratchet sent me here to bring back the guy with the lobotomy. I can t find Paladin but Anders will do. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Check out the fall books preview Aug 27, 2007
Charles van Onselen's The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal (Walker), whom van Onselen contends was Jack the Ripper; Charles Fleming and San Jose's Howard Dully's book on Dully's troubled life, My Lobotomy (Crown); Hanna Rosin's God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America (Harcourt); San Francisco's very own Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poetry as Insurgent Art (New Directions); and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's The Age of... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Study: Removing Tonsils May Cure ADHD in Children Aug 15, 2007
Send news tip to FOXNews. Tuesday, August 14, 2007. (Fox News)
Tonsil removal may cure ADHD Aug 13, 2007
11:08 AM CDT on Sunday, August 12, 2007. The Dallas Morning News / Wire reports. (KHOU.com, TX)
Childhood lobotomy focus of memoirBy: MARY FOSTER - Associated Press Aug 12, 2007
Childhood lobotomy focus of memoir By: MARY FOSTER - Associated Press North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News ... My Lobotomy' (Crown Publishers, 24 ... Childhood lobotomy focus of memoir By: MARY FOSTER - Associated Press. (North County Times)
Global warming myth Aug 4, 2007
Leonard wrote on Aug 3, 2007 11:26 AM:" Dannard: I think the key point here is that the lobotomy doctor did not believe in global warming. He was, therefore, on your side, not mine. Perhaps you knew him? ". Daniel wrote on Aug 3, 2007 11:25 AM:" 40,000 documented individuls received lobotomies. These procedures carved a quarter-inch x 2-inch gorge out of the left and right frontal lobes, starting at the orbital socket. Sister to former president JFK and Ted Kennedy, Rose Marie Kennedy received a... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Worst intersection in metro area? Jul 31, 2007
No one will ever know that you ve had a lobotomy if you wear a wig to hide to the scars and learn to control the slobbering. Dumb @ss. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Trials and Stribulations Jul 25, 2007
"I've used the term lobotomy to describe it," says Smith, who left in March after 30 years as a Minneapolis daily newspaper reporter. The bloodletting hasn't been confined to the editorial ranks either. (City Pages)
Find another culprit Jul 14, 2007
You really do need to be a Doctor of Divinity or a Doctor of Zoology to grasp the finer points of AGW theory - a lobotomy also helps. Offensive. (Guardian Unlimited)
Dan Deacon's spaceship lands at the Triple Rock Jul 4, 2007
There is a scene, based largely in Baltimore, that calls itself "future shock." It has little to do with Herbie Hancock and even less to do with Curtis Mayfield and everything to do with giving punk rock an Atari lobotomy. Monday night's bill at the Triple Rock featured two of the main pillars of the scene the Saturday morning Lucky Charms-and-Mountain Dew multimedia duo Video Hippos, and human tornado electronics-manipulator/showman de-luxe Dan Deacon. (City Pages)
Life & style Jun 22, 2007
You will require a copy of Sextrology: the Astrology of Sex and the Sexes and a pre-frontal lobotomy. Enjoy. (Guardian Unlimited)
50 all-time teenage classics Jun 17, 2007
Teenage Lobotomy, The Ramones (1977) ... From the group's last really great album, Rocket to Russia , 'Teenage Lobotomy' thrives on its sick humour: 'Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em/ that I got no cerebellum. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Lynne Cheney Floated as Possible Replacement for Dead Senator... Jun 7, 2007
The Crypt's Blog - Politico. Please leave your comments below. (The Drudge Report)
To hell and beyond May 27, 2007
"I think they look at me - and, until recently the colour was all pink and grey - and it looks like I've had a frontal lobotomy.". He smiles: "They don't know whether I'm going to dribble or yell at them or go mad and tell them about the weather in China. They're scared of me.". (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
O'Brien's blog May 21, 2007
By the way, if Francona got a lobotomy and afterwards had an I-beam fall on his head, he could STILL run rings around Cox. Schuerholz has gotta be a big supporter of the Special Olympics, or he woulda gotten rid of Donk long ago. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Ex-N.J. Governor Wants to Preach, Teach May 6, 2007
"He needs a lobotomy, not a collar," said Tom Balasia, who was waiting for a haircut in the same barbershop that used to trim McGreevey's locks when he was mayor of Woodbridge. "He's a liar who's hiding behind the cloth. He should be ashamed to show his face.". (FOX59, IN)
Christian leader warns of attempts to 'silence the voice of the church' May 5, 2007
Joseph Budd wrote on May 04, 2007 11:04 PM:"Anwar Xtian Soldier, interesting thought regarding considering a stay-at-home dad taboo...but considering God didn't rain fire and brimstone down on a city full of stay-at-home dads in the bible...kinda puts things in perspective, doesn't it? I like the basic idea, that if you like to live in sin, fine. Go live it, but don't try to convince us, that 2 percent of the population is more right than the other 98. Sure, some people will try, over and over,... (Rapid City Journal, SD)
'After-Hours' Gene Explains Why People are Night Owls Apr 29, 2007
etc" are going to have us all waking around with lobotomy scares on our heads because we did not conform to the statistical norms. Posted by Warren on April 27, 2007 12:25 PMReading this at 4:22AM, just thinking about going to bed. Hi Everyone! Posted by Poot n Scoot on April 27, 2007 12:24 PMIt's just a "Brave New World" to eplore, isn't it? Keep your hands off me!!! Posted by Warren on April 27, 2007 12:19 PMScience is amazing, we still dont know everything even about the human race, what... (Newsmax)
LISTMANIA: Most interesting Cache Valley graves. Apr 26, 2007
10 Beers wrote on April 25, 2007 10:12 PM:"Yes boys and girls, once the prick of the drill bit happens the lobotomy is almost over and then we get to read articles like listmania from the Herald Journal.". Longago Lewistonite to Lewistonite wrote on April 25, 2007 9:23 PM:"I noticed that gravesite while visiting that cemetary on Monday. I chuckle everytime I see it. ". (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Doctor: Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs Apr 20, 2007
In one publication, the emotional blunting experienced with these medications was described as a "chemical lobotomy". It has also been estimated that 8% of admissions to psychiatric facilities for psychosis and manic behavior is secondary to taking these drugs. (Newsmax)
