In an earlier post, I reacted to Dennis Kucinich's lawsuit against a congressional restaurant, when he bit down on an olive pit. He discovered that it had split his tooth. He sued the restaurant for $150,000. As I said then, "Some tooth!" What I had been thinking of was what anyone I had known, while growing up, would have done. They would have yelped, and probably had the tooth pulled. Put their tongue in the space where there used to be a tooth. For a while. I like a lot of things about Dennis Kucinich. I do not like him as much as I used to. Why? Because we saw what his is like when he lashed out, almost instinctively, as Carl Sagan might have explained, when the lizard part of his brain responded; that is to say, when his emotions got the better of him. Had he thought about it, he would have known, immediately, that suing the restaurant for the accidental--not deliberate-- fact that an olive pit somehow showed up in a...
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