Shocked!

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Nightline had an interesting piece last night about cheating on the SAT. Seems there are a lot of 'hired guns' in the psychology (tap) business who - for a fee - are willing to certify you as 'learning disabled' (stomp) even if you are not. Armed with such a certificate you will be granted 50% more time to complete the test, a huge advantage over your fellow students. Nightline even did an interview with such a 'psychologist,' who's fee for such a phoney diagnosis was about $1500.00.

I was shocked, shocked, at this amazing revelation, of course; so much so, in fact, that I paged Kootch into the LR to watch a rerun of the piece. Kootch found it quite uncomfortable (boom) as well she should: it was at her suggestion that we visited the 'Kaiser psychiatrist' who first pronounced me 'delusional.' I claimed that it was a 'setup' from the beginning and implied that it was a Gerash 'mole' who 'gave her the idea.'

As usual, Kootch retreated into denial (boom) and I didn't press her on the matter. Kootch thinks emotionally (tap), not logically, and there was no point in doing so. It is virtually impossible to reason with Kootch and I don't try.