Bang! You’re divorced and nationally disgraced. Where did this come from?

There you are, Mike Tyson. You’re a fighter, you’re wearing boxing gloves, and the person across from you looks very angry. So you attack. It’s only later that you realize it’s your lovely wife, Robin Givens. You get the feeling this has happened before...and, there you are, dropping $45,000 in a settlement. What the hell just happened?

There you are, Mike Tyson. You know you’re the world champ, that you get paid to bust heads for a living. And you know that heavyweight Mitch “Blood” Green is across from you. What do you do? You fight, right? It seems natural. So you knock the man out. Only when it’s over do you realize that it’s 4 a.m. and you’re on a Harlem street corner, not in the ring…

Consider the following.

It’s entirely possible that Tyson’s antics—can they even be called antics anymore?—can be chalked up to some sort of similarly unfortunate condition, something more than—as he himself once put it—being “bleepin’ crazy.”

Christopher Nolan’s Memento didn’t get nominated for the Best Picture Oscar yesterday. That was a shafting of biblical proportions. Nolan’s masterpiece told the tale of a man with no short-term memory (Guy Pearce) whose is plunged into all sorts of trouble because his memory blanks out every so often. The story is told chronologically backwards—beginning with the closing scene ending with the first—in a way that lets viewers feel Pearce’s disorientation. Few people walk the earth feeling that confused, but you’ve got to wonder if perhaps Mike Tyson is one of them.