Stephen Cobb's Personal Blog

"An Iraqi militant group led by al-Qaeda has threatened to massacre Christians in response to remarks about Islam by Pope Benedict XVI ...

So, America now has a Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition. Anyone who has been to a doctor recently knows administrative simp...

When you avoid telling the whole truth, using "weasel words" to shape the facts to your own agenda, your credibility may perish as...

Okay, so I've been griping about the high cost of my blood pressure medication and then Walmart announces $4 drugs . And they are starti...

I just got back from buying a month's worth of drugs at Target. Price tag: $414.00. No, I don't have AIDS or cancer. I don't hav...

Yet another analyst is trotting out the claim that 17 million Americans who do not have health insurance live in households with annual inc...

A broad definition of "gyroscopically stabilized vehicle" might include the Segway. It certainly illustrates some of the questions...

At the risk of upsetting some people I consider friends, it is high time that I started blogging the unholy, heartless, mindless, money-grub...

Classic examples are the mess that spam has made of email, and before that, the mess that viruses made of popular computing. The latest is t...

...don't move out of the fast lane, even when the driver in the vehicle behind them makes it very clear he or she would like to get past...