My post on anosognosia got the attention of several readers:

Derb — Does anosognosia include the condition of being liberal without knowing you are liberal?

It surely does. It is in fact hard to find a liberal who knows he’s liberal. Most of them insist they are “mainstream.” Anosognosia is endemic among liberals.

Mr. Derbyshire — Anosognosia may be the best explanation yet for the phenomenon of Blue Dogs, who keep voting with the Democratic leadership when it counts, but insist they’re not like those “other” Democrats.

A plainer case would be hard to find, Sir.

Derb — I’m surprised you didn’t mention the even more subtle condition of anosodiaphoria, when you sort-of know you’re paralyzed but don’t care.

Right. That’s in the second part of the Times series: “Furthermore, not all of his patients with left-side paralysis were clueless about their condition. Some patients had knowledge of their paralysis but were oddly indifferent to it. For these patients, Babinski coined the term anosodiaphoria, or indifference to paralysis.” I think I’ll drop the whole subject here, though. Once we get to discussing not knowing vs. not caring, we’ll be back in the Congo in no time. I’m in enough trouble already.