Johnson suffered from bleeding in the brain caused by a congenital malformation
Yeah, I saw that right after I posted. I mostly posted on this just to work through the statutes -- what you read about state law in the day or so after an issue comes up tends to be confused and confusing. But it looks like none of it may be important. Yay!
I keep reading the title as "Come on, Tim!" and shouted by the guy from The Now Show.
Or "Come on Tim!" as shouted by the director at the movie production annex ATM.
One of my best friends had this happen to him. He's fine, although he has rare blackouts and is on ant-spasmodics.
Fuckin SCMT doesn't have a blog, or I could grace 4 with a hyperlink, to make it funnier.
The deviousness of the modern GOP knows no bounds. Just how many other Democratic officeholders have radio-controlled congenital arteriovenous malformations in their brains just waiting to be ruptured whenever Karl Rove feels like pressing a button?
Barack Obama better get an MRI -- stat!
totally off topic (well, almost) but, is it just me, or is making government scholarships taxable just a waste of effort?
9 would have been slightly less off topic if I'd posted it in th thread I thought I was posting it in.
Sen. Reid on the radio just now says he visited, and though he doesn't have any medical details, Johnson looks fine.
"Sen. Reid, we all know Senator Johnson looks fine, but do you have any idea about his health?"
I took "looks fine" to be a comment on his health, not his relative hottness.
I know the incoming senate majority leader won't follow Frist's lead here.
8: No, it's fine. Once Johnson's out of surgery, Cy Ogle assures me he's a sure thing for the White House in 2008.
16: Heh. That wasn't a bad little paranoid thriller.
I just finished reading it the day before yesterday. Eerie.
An AVM can be very bad (like deadly) or not so bad if it bleeds, depending on the extent and location of the bleeding. But as long as Tim's looking fine...
For those of you like me who can't wrap your mind around something unless you see it on TV, this is the same brain thing that Nate had on Six Feet Under.
Does this mean each episode of our lives is going to begin with a death? 'cause I have a few people I'd kinda like to get rid of...
Resignation is extremely unlikely. For him to resign, he'd have to be sufficiently cognitively impaired that he couldn't function as a Senator but not sufficiently impaired that he couldn't recognize that he couldn't function. This is a very narrow band of incapacitation.
No one can remove him from office. There are only three ways to stop being a Senator: your term can end, you can die, you can resign.
So unless he dies, he's likely to be South Dakota's Senator until January 2009 at the earliest.