Their inability to pivot even briefly from partisan self-interest could not be a more telling symptom of the dysfunctional Washington culture Mr. Obama aspires to mend.
The telling symptom for me is extreme nausea, which is worsened by the slightest movement or faintest odor.
But this isn't to imply that his comedy schtick was some telling symptom of his premature death by overdose, at the thoroughly Catholic age of 33 (the same, mind you, as Belushi).
He learned that an estimated 5 million people a year showed up in ERs with such telling symptoms as shortness of breath or swollen legs and that congestive heart failure was manageable if caught early enough.
As the disease progresses, more telling symptoms appear like insomnia, anxiety, confusion, paralysis, hallucinations, agitation, an increase in salivation and a fear of water.
One of the telling symptoms of FH is elevated lipid levels, making it easy for the disease to masquerade as high cholesterol, and nothing more.
After that, strength slowly declines, eventually resulting in telling symptoms of muscle weakness, like falling, and difficulty with essential daily tasks, like getting up from a chair or in and out of the tub.
Whether ressentiment erupts in racist violence, sectarian fanaticism, anti-Communist witch hunts, totalitarian show trials, politically correct cultural revolutions or sadistic escapism, its most telling symptoms are paranoia and routinized bursts of hysteria.
Of these, 44% of respondents had been told symptoms were due to anemia, 32% of respondents told due to stress, and 24% told their symptoms were due to an irritable bowel syndrome.
