Thanks for the link love Simon. Glad I could provide you with some info from afar.

I enjoyed Patrick Madden's proposition and I think we should start a draft of aphasic's with immediate effect. Thank you for linking to his piece, it was worth reading.

Thanks for the link, Si!

I left this comment on Pad's article today, but thought I'd drop it here in case that is more effective:

"Patrick, very interesting! But I’m left wondering about one small thing. How are we to determine the opinion of aphasics, after they’ve viewed someone whose honesty we wish to assess, if they are unable to communicate with language? Does laughter mean the same to them (e.g. when we listen to Bush) as it does to us?"