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Avast, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Though I don't really plan on saying anything in pirate lingo, I'll say "aye" and "yar" as I normally do occassionally. However, they had a pretty entertaining Letterman-style list of the Top Ten Pirate Pick Up Lines (to be used by pirates, not to pick up pirates; actually, it probably doesn't matter). "Yar, matey. Vote for Katie." Anyway, I'll make Guybrush Threepwood proud today.

Speaking of pirates, a certain prophet named Bobby Henderson has completed extensive research and has found a correlation between a decline in pirates and increase in global temperature.

There are many Pastafarians who have been touched by His noodly appendage including Zhi and John. I'm talking about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, of course. If Kansas is going to teach Intelligent Design in school along with the theory of evolution, then surely they must also include this alternate logically-sound theory of Intelligent Design in their curriculum. Let there be "One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence." Ramen.