Seattle Times is tuned in to the most important issue of the day. No, I don’t mean the announcement that British and Italian scientists have created the first pure nerve cells from embryonic stem cells. No this is bigger news:

Dennis Avner, who goes by his Native American name, Stalking Cat, is known around the world as the Catman. Over the past 25 years, Stalking Cat, 47, has received so many surgical and cosmetic procedures he’s lost count. And he says all of them from full-face tattoos to fanged dentures to steel implants for detachable “whiskers” have been done to achieve oneness with what he calls his totem, the tiger.