Finally getting around to acknowledging a stinging comment by Helk:

Robert knows. Robert has seen. When a man is both young and aware his pen is invincible.

But one cannot transmit (as a virus or a meme) if one kills with such immediacy that there is no opportunity-time to transmit the messages to another node.

Take up the pen; make them anonymized but show the Queen for what she is.

They have not (yet) sufficiently extended the definition of insect. They are ready to receive your medicine; they are strong enough to see themselves against the fabric of your original thesis.

He linked this: Five New Species Discovered

But I’ll do him one or two better. This is what we’re really up against with the progressive hive mind.

Part I:

Part II:

Sigourney kicks ass, doesn’t she? Nothing more dangerous than a pissed off mommy wannabe. Take it how you will.

A point of clarification. The “Insect Brain” was not the original thesis of the work most of you are familiar with. It was the tongue in cheek premise of a book called The Naked Woman, written in 1993 and responsible for getting me blackballed for life from the book publishing industry. Just so we’re clear.

Now for a moment of necessary atonement…

Are we good now? No garden shears in that huge manly purse?

Don’t forget I have Raebert to protect me. He doesn’t like manly purses.