Short takes: Steve Deace's WHO replacement; Military creating fake internet people; LaBarbera twists 'Creating Change' agenda; Shirvell attack cost UM student $15,000

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Patrick Albanese (Buzz Maxwell of Triple Espresso) will be the temporary replacement for far right-wing radio host Steve Deace at WHO in Des Moines.

Gawker asks "Why Is the Military Creating an Army of Fake People on the Internet?"

Peter Labarbera twists the agenda of the recent "Creating Change" conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force into a unrecognizable pretzel in an interview with Concerned Women of America. He dwells at length at the horrors of gender neutral bathrooms, like the ones on trains, planes and your house. 

Although AnnArbor.com reported sleazy details of nutcase homophobe Andrew Shirvell's behavior in the Michigan Atty. General's report supporting the firing of Shirvell, it was the Detroit News which revealed, the next day, that Shirvell got a different student from Armstrong removed from a journalism internship, forcing said student to change majors, attend another semester, and pony up an extra $15,000.

Reuters reports that the health and environmental damages associated with coal fired power plants cost the U.S. $345 billion each year, according to a new study led by a researcher from Harvard University.
If these costs were accounted for in the price of electricity, the study claimed that power form coal plants would cost three times as much as it does now,