tyger, tyger, burning brightman

Did you see any of that Sarah Brightman in Las Vegas miasma on PBS the
other night? A harem motif? What is she thinking? It was so gauche, all
that was missing were Siegfried and Roy's tigers. But it was more
bungle than Bengal. The beasts can't be too busy these days. Their gigs
suddenly dried up. I heard they're desperately trying to cut a deal
with "America's Funniest Videos. Really, I wonder what the tigers are
doing these days. Racing around Roy's bed until they turn into butter?

Now that I have disgraced myself with that offensive diatribe ...

Doctors prepared to do face transplant (from louisville
courier-journal)

Even as ethicists and others raise concerns, a team of doctors from
Louisville and the Netherlands says it is ready to perform a face
transplant.
"There arrives a point in time when the procedure should simply be
done. We submit that that time is now," the researchers wrote in an
article scheduled for publication today in The American Journal of
Bioethics.


OK, where do I sign up??