Descriptions of the events say he “blacked out” both times, this time being injured in a fall. Most epileptics have some warning (aura) of an impending seizure and can take precautions not to fall once they have experienced it.

It also says “brain seizure” not “gran mal seizure”, leaving you to wonder if there was any of the usual muscle twitching that accompanied it.

My initial reaction to the news that C.J. Roberts had suffered a seizure (and having suffered at least one other in the pasts, officially making him an epileptic) was that he is an ill man. How ill he is will likely become known before he dies; my guess is we’ll “know more” in the next few years.

But keep in mind that even before there were adequate medical treatments for epilepsy, great and competent men (who would easily blow away Roberts on his best day) lived and functioned with the illness. (Check out Dostoevsky’s bio for one example.)

honestly, Peregrin you have an interesting & plausible hypothesis. But until there is proof about the causes of the seizures, we’ll never know. Roberts, the Supreme Court and the immoral Bush & Co will never let the truth be known. They don’t want another huge scandal to further damage their tenuous grip on power.

So all we have left is speculation. Sad how the truth is so hard to get in regards to political matters and our wonderful American govt !

Political coverups of medical doings are not at all far-fetched. We have the historical examples of FDR secretly in a wheelchair and JFK leaving his crutches just offstage to give campaign speeches. Also there’s that Republican who keeps getting arrested for prescription drug abuse…what was that guy’s name again?

I don’t see the name of that blogger guy Rob is talking about–maybe he’s On Something. And what’s Mappo been smoking?

Of course Peregrin is an admitted pedophile. Just last week he was at the Harry Potter thingy checking out the teeny boppers with their short skirt costume thingies. So what. Do these guys think Peregrin is going to reach out of their computers and GRAB them? Maybe they think Peregrin can SEE them from inside their computer screens. Come on guys, if you’re that paranoid from all the shit you take, why don’t you just put on some clothes when you go in front of the computer?

And Mappo, you’re continuing to very carefully avoid discussing the legacy of Rehnquist. Interesting, that.