A Question from Great Britain

For various reasons (which I cannot divulge) I'm thinking of getting the Grant Morrison run of the X-Fellers. Does anyone have an opinion on its relative worth or disworth?

No wonder we're screwed

SUVs at altar, Detroit church prays for a bailout

Sun Dec 7, 2008 7:00pm By Kevin Krolicki and Soyoung Kim
DETROIT (Reuters) - With sport-utility vehicles at the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit's largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for Congress to bail out the struggling auto industry....

Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele present “Oh, Paris!”

Consider me obsessed.

Ohhh Liiiitcuuube<3<3<3

Hawaii leading the energy revolution?

What? I know. But yes, it looks like it may. If this idea works.

Check it out, here, here and here.

Doctors who terrorize

Fugu has witnessed these horror shows firsthand. To be fair, I have met very nice surgeons. But others are from hell.

Every nurse has a story about obnoxious doctors. A few say they have ducked scalpels thrown across the operating room by angry surgeons. More frequently, though, they are belittled, insulted or yelled at — often in front of patients and other staff members — and made to feel like the bottom of the food chain. A third of the nurses in Dr. Rosenstein’s study were aware of a nurse who had left a hospital because of a disruptive physician....

A survey of health care workers at 102 nonprofit hospitals from 2004 to2007 blames "badly behaved doctors for low morale, stress and high
turnover. ... Recent studies suggest that such behavior contributes to medical mistakes, preventable complications and even death."

Lego Eddie Izzard Death Star Canteen

I hadn't seen this, have you all?

When superheroes are not enough...

A style that's become hot enough to be kickin' in Glastonbury now for a few years, and I didn't know about it, even with my love for superheroes and all things costume!
My accupuncturist tipped me off on this, and I'm ashamed that it wasn't scooped by our own Nihongo beat reporter Odori. What's up slacker? there's this new rage going off and you're not on top of things? For shame Odori! What are you doing? Covering "real life news"?