“Driving this MG feels like piloting a farming implement.”

Midgets, when running properly, are fun as hell. So, about two afternoons a year, when they were new.

Still a better passer than Brock Os— nevermind.

I have inside information that VW is abandoning North America entirely, and going after the extraterrestrial market with their new models:

I think the source is important if, say, it’s difficult - or impossible - for the layperson to follow the argument(s). The intricacies of climate science or quantum physics are easily overwhelming to me and nearly everyone else; nevertheless, there’s a group of professional scientists whose job it is to study <fill in…

Well said. Most reasonable people would agree that the strength of the argument itself is much more important than its source. Still, one can assess the commenters here pretty well by simply looking at their posting history, and I recommend that simple strategy for shorthand on how much credence to give to these…

Boy, lots to respond to here, so I guess I’ll limit my response to a couple points.

A very distinct possibility. But then again, we haven’t examined her. All this is conjecture. You are talking about the likelihood of various paraphilias versus the likelihood of personality disorders. Have to agree about the pre-programmed automatic behaviors of sexual drive being more powerful than the attenuated…

Yeah. It will probably never cease to amaze me how complex and - at least so far - opaque the workings of the brain are (especially the human brain, but even an insect’s brain.) Our understanding of physics, even particle physics, is enormous and we’re constantly making progress, to the extent that we now have…

The worst part of treating severe cognitive issues, is that they are in a lot of ways, salvage operations. Until we have better fMRI diagnostics, and that leads to methods of direct manipulation of the affected neuronal pathways, we are stuck with what we have now.

Psychopathy is marked by the true lack of anxiety

Yeah, the thing that worries me, as an old, who was socialized before there was this thing called ‘The Internet’ is what sorts of life trajectories that we are seeing with marginal teens these days. There is so much oportunity to screw yourself up, and all of it to be ‘on your permanant record’ there online for…

Interesting comments. You say:

Well, first and foremost, if you’re a physician then your opinion carries a lot more weight than mine! And I know this is the internet, but I believe you.

Hmmm... not exactly true.

Actually, if she truly is a sociopath, the last thing she should get is counseling:

Bingo. I would say she is definitely somewhere up the sociopath line.

Good at pretending, but when it all comes out, mostly/all concerned about the consequences to them, rather than other they hurt.

Frankly, I think the appeal to misogyny is simply symptomatic of this poor kid’s intrinsic sociopathic manipulative streak. When caught, sociopaths typically have some reasonable sounding reason for the behavior, but under close scrutiny, it doesn’t hold up.