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Yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate Day, so I hope all ye matey's shivered yer timbers, walked the plank and drank some grog to celebrate.

Today has also been a good day because a Geological Survey of Canada employee was reinstated after being fired for refusing to call Stephen Harper's government "Canada's New Government" in official documents. He mouthed off the ministry in an email, because he was mad that supposedly unbiased civil servants were being asked to adopt government slogans. I agree, this seems wrong. Kudos to you, dude!

Kudos also to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for calling good old George W "the Devil" at the UN General Assembly today, accusing the US of "domination, exploitation, and pillages of peoples of the world". Smart man or foolish man? Will there shortly be a military coup in Venezuala run by an army trained in secret by the US government for the sole purpose of overthrowing Chavez?

And the "you suck" award of the week (please give suggestions for a better term than "you suck") goes to the World Health Organization who wants to start using DDT again to fight malaria in Africa. Okay, Einsteins, need we remind you of why DDT was banned in the 1970's and is one of the most persistent pollutants humans have made, and that it may cause cancer? Let me also tell you that mosquitoes have developed resistances to DDT, so that we need to give them higher doses in order to kill them. We are producing super-mosquitoes by using DDT. This not really a complicated concept. Let me explain. If you were to broadcast spray DDT in a mosquito infested area, at a certain dose, most would die, but a few would survive. These few to survive would be the ones most able to handle DDT. This is the idea of the survival of the fittest. Imagine this continuing for many mosquito generations and you can see how easily a super-mosquito species would develop (after a certain length of time they also start carrying around little tiny semi-automatic rifles and ambushing anthills. It's very brutal.) Lets think of some long term solutions here guys. Come on.