When a president elect says something like “I won in a landslide” when he lost the popular vote and there were states that were too close for analysts to call the outcome for, then there is something amiss.

One has to consider the facts: wikipedia says (and wikipedia is a voice from millions of independent minds, perhaps the greatest collection of information ever created, free, and editable to all) — Memory gaps and errors refer to the incorrect recall, or complete loss, of information in the memory system for a specific detail and/or event. Memory errors may include remembering events that never occurred, or remembering them differently from the way they actually happened.

Wikipedia index goes on to list 13 different types of bias in memory, making it abundantly clear that we all fit into some of those categories, many quite deeply, others just barely. BUT not only is it intellectually dishonest to even begin to assume that one’s own memory is untainted, but it is also shows a total lack of understanding about biology and the mind, and how we store, retrieve and re-retrieve data.

What is just laughable (and also a serious problem for a country about to embark on a 4 year journey with a marginally fit mind at the helm) is that the comments, like the one above, fly out of a mouth with absolutely no frontal lobe editing. That is a scary thing.