Why Bush Smirks - Leonard Shlain at Huffington Post

[applegrove]

Why Bush Smirks
by Leonard Shlain
Huffington Post
October 29, 2006


"In observing our president's expressions over the years, I became aware of a feature of George Bush's face that revealed more about his inner self than anything issuing forth from his mouth. President Bush has a disconnect between the right side and the left side of his face. While the right side of his mouth and the corner of his right eyes portray a smile, the left side of his mouth and the corners of his left eye convey a scowl.

The result is a twisted smirk that has become his trademark expression.

As a vascular surgeon who has operated on carotid arteries to the brain, I have long been interested in the opposing functions performed by the two hemispheres of the human brain. All vertebrates, from fish to fowl have a bi-lobed brain. Each half, with few exceptions, is a mirror image of the other both in appearance and function.

The organization of the human brain when compared to other vertebrate brains occupies the extreme edge of the bell shaped curve. Although the halves of our brain appear identical, each hemisphere is functionally different. The left-brain in right-handed people (and the majority of left- handers, too,) is the seat of language, logic, and one-at-a-time mental faculties that require a sense of linearity, sequence, and time.

............ SNIP"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonard-shlain/why-bush-smirks_b_32784.html

[whistle]

1. A two faced president Bush, just what I've suspected all along

[pooja]

2. How can such a sociopath make it into the white house...

I certainly don't want to drink any beer with this man!

[cobaindrain]

3. well Nixon made it

But at least he was an evil genious, bush is just plain evil

[bdamomma]

4. a President is supposed to be a man of high ethics and professionalism

quality not to have a beer with, this is totally sick, our standards are been lowered so severely since this idiot stole the office.

[Demeter]

15. A Man, Alyce? Surely You Meant Person

[bdamomma]

18. probably not even that, subhuman he is.

[applegrove]

11. He isn't a sociopath. He is a vessle. Sociopaths work through him.

[greeneyedboy]

23. you think he has a conscience? i see no signs of one.

[applegrove]

25. I think he is a puppet. IMHO

[greeneyedboy]

29. oh, definitely. but also a sociopath IMO.

[applegrove]

31. If he is the vessle..he is chanelling or being the outside "organ" of the

nefarious types. IMHO.

[Uncle Joe]

33. Do you mean like one of those vessles,

people used to keep by their bed for when they couldn't make it to the outhouse?

Thanks for the O.P. applegrove

Kicked and recommended

:kick:

P.S. on edit Too late to recommend

[applegrove]

34. My bad. I learnt to read and write in french. Now I can't write it two languages!

[Uncle Joe]

35. I did not pick up on it,

I thought I hit spell check anyway:hi:

[applegrove]

36. I have no idea how to spell Vessel. There we go. Note to self: hit spell check.

[Uncle Joe]

37. Vessel, I hit spell check and that's it

:) the definition in the dictionary a utensil for holding something vase, bowl, pitcher, kettle etc. it also means a person thought of as being the receiver or repository of some spirit, influence etc. I believe this is where the term empty vessel comes from.

I believe we are both correct, Bush is an empty vessel or puppet of those around him, and as I thought he is a port o potty.:)

[Old and In the Way]

5. I'd like to see one of those split pictures of Bush.

Where the face is cut in half and the left side is made a mirror image of itself and the same is done with the right side. I think the results will bear the smile/scowl quick convincingly.

[applegrove]

6. Good idea!

[pnwmom]

7. For example, from the archives

google Bush and smirk and this is what you get:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://ranprieur.com/crash/bushbundy.html&h=243&w=170&sz=18&hl=en&start=15&tbnid=WH-_XBSk3GEs5M:&tbnh=110&tbnw=77&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbush%2Bsmirk%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

[vanlassie]

8. Proof Positive

My son made this quite some time back....have fun.

http://jacobyproduction.com/twoface/twoface.html

[pnwmom]

9. Thank you, vanlassie. That was great.

And welcome to DU!

[applegrove]

10. Wow. That was observant of you.

[Old and In the Way]

12. That corroborates the OP pretty well.

Welcome onboard!

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. Wow! That's some good work.

[Arkansas Granny]

21. That is really wild. We all know that smirk, but I had never seen

anything like that before.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[yy4me]

22. I would love to see this as a "stand alone" post, can you?

Everyone needs to see it. Keep the title.

[applegrove]

26. What is a stand alone post?

[twenty4blackbirds]

13. K&R

can we get more photos? This is fascinating.

[SeattleGirl]

14. Glad you posted this. I read it earlier today.

Pull up some pics of Dubya, and cover first the left side, and then the right side of his face. The difference is astounding.

[Oreo]

20. Two Face

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Face

[Why Syzygy]

16. K&R n/t

[applegrove]

17. Bump for the next day

[greeneyedboy]

24. very interesting & makes a lot of sense.

[indepat]

27. And this is the soul the freakin' Congress gave dictatorial powers: won't

ask God to help us when we keep shooting our own selves in the foot and ass.

[Clyde39]

28. I can't watch him on TV

It's just too painful!

[roguenkatz]

30. I noticed this

as it was very pronounced on the cover of "Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush" by Molly Ivins with Lou Dubose

[nicknameless]

32. Check out the "Bates Motel" pic in this OP.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2523275&mesg_id=2523275

That left side of *'s face looks truly demonic.