Mari Ness - Can't sleep yet. Squirrels will get me.

Actually, I'm so tired tonight that I probably will sleep well, but I couldn't go to sleep until I had alerted you all to the very latest stages of the squirrel war:

1. Meanwhile, the BBC has finally found the courage to ask the question troubling us all: Can the squirrel problem be solved? Check out the helpful and yet entirely untruthful captioning in their photos. (Honestly, BBC. Can you truly tell us that any squirrels are loved?) Bonus: the BBC blames the Americans (doesn't everyone?) even as it delicately hints that at least some of these questionable squirrels are -- gasp -- French. Or Dutch. Distinctly Continental, whatever.

2. But in this case, the BBC may be justified in blaming Americans, since, as the York Daily Record informs us, Americans aren't just refusing to shoot squirrels up with birth control hormones, but they are actually (and this may be painful for you to read) giving legal protection to squirrels. That's right. Squirrels. And worse, they're giving legal protection to flying squirrels. Do we have no government leaders with foresight anymore? (On second thought, you might not want to answer that question.)

3. And finally, on an even more troubling note, squirrel forces 11 year old boy to shoot at truck. Questions are raised about the cost and efficiency of the local emergency response team when the victim chooses to drive himself to the hospital. No word on the current whereabouts of this squirrel.