San Diego, CA, USA. In a surprise announcement today Monica Roberts revealed that “Autumn” Sandeen is actually the illegitimate love child of Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality.

August LaBarbera, Sandeen’s real name, has been posing for the past several years as the right hand transvestite activist of Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend while positioning as the final arbitrator of all things trans.

Fairfield, IA, USA. A new paper indicates that the military application of the Transcendental Meditation technique has merit.

The new work discusses how militaries worldwide could use the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® program, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, as a non-religious and scientifically verified way to prevent war and terrorism. When used in a military context, these meditation practices are known as Invincible Defense Technology (IDT).

Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.

Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!

 

Fairfax, VA, USA. Mark Twain said that the first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 365 days of the year. I don’t know much about that (or about history or geometry or the French I took), but I do know a news story when I see it.

 

You might think I am an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. Take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from a consciousness faithfully performed, dear readers. I have assembled a veritable triptych of curiosities I think you will find interesting. Or maybe not.

 

Read on.

 

But be aware all ye that enter here that this is not the Ides, not even close.

Fairfax, VA, USA. Despite recent empirical and theoretical breakthroughs, the structure of the web of life that connects living things is still relatively unknown and remains vulnerable to the perturbations of invasive alien species, including changes to real world biological communities (e.g. HBS men and women) brought about by human activities (e.g., the transgender political agenda).

 

Invasive species are a key cause of biodiversity loss resulting from their frequent dominance of habitats and the elimination of native species through predation.

 

 

Although the connectivity of the social network may remain unaltered by invasion, the members change from native to alien as the aliens engage in asymmetric interactions as the invasion progresses. The alien species goal is to become the web’s central nodes and alter the structural attributes of the network, particularly in the advanced stages of the invasion. Invader-dominated webs generally resist restoration (normalization) of interaction among the native species to their previous uninvaded state.