Madman drummers bummers: One time, I thought it might be nice to have a pessimist convention. Organize it, have fun activities and speakers, get it to go viral on YouTube, etc.

Then I figured, nah, no one would show up.

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I recently listened to the SYSK podcast about lobotomies.
Just terrifying.

I remember a PBS doc about it. The quack doctor who stayed just ahead of the investigators, rushing to do as many quickie lobotomies as he could before they shut him down, was a real piece of work. Here he is: Walter Jackson Freeman. Ice pick and a hammer, $25 a pop - creepy shiat indeed.

Oh, I'm sure you're exaggerat...

After experimenting with novel ways of performing these brain surgeries, Freeman formulated a new procedure called the transorbital lobotomy.[6] This new procedure became known as the "icepick" lobotomy and was performed by inserting a metal pick into the corner of each eye-socket, hammering it through the thin bone there with a mallet, and moving it back and forth, severing the connections to the prefrontal cortex in the frontal lobes of the brain.[8] He performed the transorbital lobotomy surgery for the first time in Washington D.C. on a housewife named Sallie Ellen Ionesco.[6] This transorbital lobotomy method did not require a neurosurgeon and could be performed outside of an operating room without the use of anesthesia by using electroconvulsive therapy to induce seizure.[8]

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