One of the people are beloved publisher frequently contacts lives close to home. This contact is a Psychology professor at Northern Kentucky University. This contact has been watching Villa Hills malfeasant Mayor Mike Martin very closely and has developed some strong opinions. This contact recently met our beloved publisher for dinner and suggested that we take a close look at a disorder known as "Executive Function Disorder" as a means of coming to grips with the ongoing corruption and incompetence that has exemplified the mismanaging Martin's first-and hopefully, only-term as mayor.
Our beloved publisher's psychiatrist friend is convinced that the woefully mismanaging Martin suffers from what is know as Executive Function Disorder. No, its not a reason to feel sorry for Martin. Its just represents an attempt to understand why Martin continues to behave in an inexplicably destructive way.
Our psychiatrist source suggests that all we have to do to discern that Martin suffers from Executive Function Disorder is to look at the back of the tiny tyrant's head. It's flat. Our source says that Martin's flat head is a symptom of someone who is often called a "crib baby". Our sources suggests that Martin has a difficult time dealing with complex issues and cannot effectively interact with competent people because he spent his infancy ignored, left unattended and laying flat on his back in his crib. Again, this is not a reason to feel sorry for the flat-headed Martin.
So, what are the symptoms Martin exhibits of Executive Function Disorder? Let's take a serious look at them:
- Difficulty and/or lack of interest in setting goals
- Little sense of pleasure in making progress towards a goal
- Difficulty taking initiative
- Motivated by immediate needs
- Past Consequences for negative behavior don’t alter future actions
- Inability to reflect on past experience to plan for the future
- Difficulty adapting to change
- May vacillate from impulsivity to rigidity
- May continue to use the same strategy to solve a life problem, even when it has already proven ineffective.
- Doesn’t learn to stop and select a strategy that best fits a problem before trying to solve it
- Very poorly developed identity or self concept
- Little awareness of, or interest in learning of personal limitations or weaknesses, even if presented in a constructive manner
- Rapid mood fluctuations, not due to a psychiatric mood disturbance
- Insensitivity to inner emotional state. May “act out” an emotion, rather than recognize and verbalize a feeling.
- Poor frustration tolerance. Gives up easily when frustrated.
- Sees personal problems as externally caused. Unable to see his/her own contribution to the problem.
- Difficulty taking other’s perspective, or point of view
- Lack of empathy.
Desperate to end Martin's ongoing embarrassment, the voters gave the mayhem-making Martin an entirely new council to work with beginning in January 2012. Instead of a "Golden Moment", Martin quickly squandered any goodwill he might have received by being caught in yet another LIE when his long-standing plan to disband the local police department was "accidentally" revealed.
The misdirecting Martin also continues to resort to the same tactics that landed him is so much hot water during his first two dreadful years in office. Martin continues to dodge, dip, duck, dive and dodge about the true state of the City's financial condition.
Martin also continues to ignore requests for information from the new council that voter's surrounded him with. Council is tasked with the duty of oversight. But it is abundantly clear by the way Martin and his personal-and now City-Attorney Toad V. McMurtry continue to come up with questionable excuses for why the council should not receive the information they have requested. It's becoming ever clearer that Martin simply can't work with others.
Martin also continues to expect the taxpayers to pay his bills for the LIBEL, SLANDER and DEFAMATION he alone is responsible for. How do we know this? One doesn't have to look further than the several costly-to-the-taxpayers, not so "special" Special Meetings he continues to hastily convene.
We'll know in 321 days.
