A new study says that dreams and sleep are powerfully connected to the processing of human emotions. In a related story, Republicans haven’t been getting much sleep in the last 50 years.

At the annual AMA conference in Chicago yesterday, President Obama pressed doctors to back his health care overhaul efforts. The doctors listened attentively and then said they can’t make any decision until they first do an MRI, CAT Scan, EKG, lab work, hit the president on the knee with a rubber hammer, collect a $35 co-pay and make him fill out 12 pages of paperwork, especially the HIPAA privacy form.