Insane in the membrane

As is forever entertaining, the McLaughlin Group recently had a discussion on road rage. It would seem that road rage drivers are not just angry, they're crazy. So says research from Harvard and from the University of Chicago. The new sickness is called IED or intermittent explosive disorder. IED sufferers have abnormal areas of the brain that are supposed to control anger. Researchers estimate that up to 16 million Americans suffer from intermittent explosive disorder. With this in mind, it begged the question of the round table Should states require brain scans before issuing driver's licenses? (This got some mighty laughter.) Pat Buchanan responds: Well, look, those are the same guys that get in fist fights in bars. The continuing had me cracking up , read on:

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Here comes Buchanan in his --

MR. BUCHANAN: Navigator.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- Lexus tank.

MR. BUCHANAN: Navigator. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Navigator.

MR. BUCHANAN: Yeah. (Laughs.)

MS. CLIFT: I think the treatment for road rage in case of anybody who has a Navigator would be that they would have to spend six months in community service operating out of a miniature car, a small car.

MR. ZUCKERMAN: It's a serious issue. I mean, they're doing a lot of brain work in neuroscience at Harvard, and I'm sure they have been able to trace that.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think IED is due to nature or nurture?

MR. BLANKLEY: Oh, there's no doubt in my mind that, you know, 30,000 years ago the cavemen who were driving their cars down the road --

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think --

MR. BLANKLEY: -- you know, that that's where it evolved in our genes.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What about nurture, lack of socialization?

MR. BLANKLEY: Look, some people are angry. Others aren't.