Man, nobody wants to hear this news. It’s like hearing your grandpa just had a stroke. American actor Morgan Freeman was airlifted to a hospital in Memphis after the car he was travelling in drove off the road and flipped over several times.

From Reuters:

TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Oscar-winning U.S. actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition on Monday after the car he was driving careened off a rural highway and rolled several times, authorities said.

Freeman, 71, was airlifted late on Sunday night to a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital, about 100 miles from the accident scene, which is near a home he keeps in Charleston, Mississippi.

“The vehicle went off the edge of the road and flipped several times,” Mississippi Highway Patrol Sgt. Ben Williams said. No other car was involved in the accident.

From the direction Freeman was traveling, he appeared to be headed toward his home, Williams said.

Williams said it was “possible” that Freeman, who co-stars in the current blockbuster Batman movie the “Dark Knight,” had fallen asleep at the wheel, but he added that authorities had ruled out alcohol as a factor in the wreck.

Freeman was conscious and talking to arriving officers afterward, Williams said, adding that no citation had been issued in the accident.

A spokeswoman at Regional Medical Center in Memphis said Freeman was in serious condition but gave no further details.

Both Freeman and a female passenger, identified as Demaris Meyer, were wearing seat belts, but the air bags did not deploy in the 1997 Nissan Maxima registered to Meyer, Williams said. He said he did not know the extent of her injuries.

Reuters/Nielsen

That sound you just heard was Samuel L. Jackson’s workload doubling.

Sometimes when I cruise news headlines, there’s one that just makes me flip the fuck out. Such as this one:

Heavy metal monk in second album

Heavy Metal Monk? Light some incense and punch the floor.

From the BBC:

At first glance, Cesare Bonizzi looks like the archetypal Capuchin monk - round-faced, stout, with twinkling eyes and a long flowing white beard. But beneath his robes beats a heart of metal.

Brother Cesare is the lead singer in a heavy metal band which has just released its second album.

A former missionary in the Ivory Coast, he lives in a small friary in the Milan hinterland.

The 62-year-old monk’s love affair with heavy metal began when he attended a Metallica concert some 15 years ago.

“I was overwhelmed and amazed by the sheer energy of it” he says.

Brother Metal

Hard rock and heavy metal have, over the years, been criticised as the work of the devil.

It’s a claim which Brother Cesare, also known as Brother Metal, says is nonsense.

He started playing and recording cassettes, firstly with “lighter” metal music, but gradually he realised that what really moved him was the hard core.

People think that I am in fancy dress, they can’t believe a robed monk is on the stage playing their music
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Today marks the 90th birthday of former South African President Nelson Mandela, a leader for civil rights and democracy, political prisoner of nearly 30 years and one of the main proponents in ending Apartheid. (No, President Bush, Mandela was not killed by Saddam.) Let’s hope the Black Pimpernel stays around a while longer.

For more info on why you should care about Nelson Mandela, check out the Reuters timeline, or the BE-All-END-All Source of Research Information.

STOPWHATYOUREDOING! GETINDOORS! FUCKINGMEASLESOUTBREAK! FOXNEWSREPORTS! BUYMOREONLINEDONTGOOUTDOORS! MEASLES!

measles!

Reuters — The biggest U.S. outbreak of measles since 1997 has sickened 127 people in 15 states, most of whom were not vaccinated against the highly contagious viral illness, federal health officials said on Wednesday.

MEASLES!

…is removed, but homeboy still looks kinda like Jabba The Hut.

Huang Chuncai holds the record for most facial tumors and is the most interesting looking person on the planet.

“I used t feel very uncomfortable. Now that the more-than-10 kilogram tumor has been cut off, i feel very relieved.”

Full Story HERE.

Neurofibroma is a Motherfucker.

sorry, but I’d hate myself more if I didn’t point this out:

Defense Secretary nominee Robert Gates does the unthinkable and speaks candidly to congress about the war in Iraq. From Reuters.