1 He's joing President Bush's Anti-Malaria Initiative. Which you never heard of because they were too busy covering the fake news like Randi Rhodes falling on her face outside of an Irish bar. Although she saw and heard no one, the injuries were consistent with a mugging. Or passing out. Or being hit in the head by a rambunctious invisible flying monkey. We'll see where he stands on DDT. That will tell how serious he really is.

2 I am so, so glad to see him endorse a cause that actually should be done. And dittos to Darrell on the DDT angle. "Better living through chemistry."

3 It can't really be done without responsible, selective use of DDT.

4 They seriously need to ID the pheromone that female mosquitoes use to lure the males. Synthesize it, then put some of that in the old bug zapper. The more males get killed, the shallower the gene pool gets, and the less quickly the mosquitoes develop DDT resistance. Frankly, I can live without whatever birds there may be that depend on mosquitoes to live.