I'd like to wish all my American readers a happy and safe Thanksgiving. I continue to be grateful that you choose to waste a few minutes with me each day. Save some mashed potatoes for me.

I posted a couple days ago about Rom Houben, the Belgian man who was misdiagnosed as being in a coma for the last couple decades. Since then, the story has taken another interesting turn. Hauben described his experience to German magazine Der Spiegel...

I was just looking at the GOP's recently issued draft statement of "principles" for aspiring conservative candidates. #9 caught my attention: (9) Protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care...

A lot of what we know about the brain is still wrong. We're discovering more every day about the inner workings of mind and consciousness, but that's of little consolation to someone like Rom Houben. After being seriously injured in a car accident...

Once it became clear that the Democrats had sixty votes, last night's procedural vote on health care was somewhat anticlimactic, although no less significant. Every procedural hurdle surmounted adds to the growing perception that the bill's passage is...