Dateline: 2000. Do you have a savant friend? Someone off the charts smart but also limited or suffering in social skills? A good example is Bobby Fisher, the chess champion. Not just talented but historically superior, even at a young age. However, he started going off the rails in his 20s. After winning the world title in 1972, basically disappeared. Re-appeared years later, clearly a paranoid schizophrenic. Also, he hosted a radio show from I Philippines where he ranted against everyone (especially Jews, of which he was one). Anyhoots. I used to have a savant friend, Chris. He excelled at basically everything difficult. School, chess, board games, anything involving strategy. When I was in college, I went to Fargo for a drunken weekend of fraternities gathering. He was in grad school there getting an advanced electrical engineering degree. I visited his apartment. He was growing magic mushrooms under his bed. Not sure how that's possible, esp. pre-web, but if ther...