At Last, An Answer?

Most folks just shake their head when they see the "solutions" that bureaucrats come up with for problems. Oh sure, the left wing thinks government is the answer to all things, but really, most folks are just bemused by the ideas coming from government. We may, finally, have an answer to actually two different things here. Why are bureaucrats so out of touch with reality and also, as a bonus, why the French are where they are, government-wise. A French civil servant - a long-time employee of the government - was complaining of weakness in his left leg. Doctors examined him and took a brain scan.

And found that, for all intents and purposes, that he had no brain. (And we are NOT making this up.)

Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue.

"He was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil servant," Dr. Lionel Feuillet and colleagues at the Universite de la Mediterranee in Marseille wrote in a letter to the Lancet medical journal.

The man went to a hospital after he had mild weakness in his left leg. When Feuillet's staff took his medical history, they learned he had had a shunt inserted into his head to drain away hydrocephalus — water on the brain — as an infant.

The shunt was removed when he was 14.

So the researchers did a computed tomography (CT) scan and another type of scan called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They were astonished to see "massive enlargement" of the lateral ventricles — usually tiny chambers that hold the cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain.

A Picture is worth a thousand words:

We may have this figured out.