Link Salad, Friday Edition

[chris_gerrib]

I had my first session with my personal trainer yesterday. (She looks and acts like Central Casting's idea of a personal trainer.) Today, though, muscles I forgot I had are reminding me that they exist. [insert witty and/or funny transition here] Have some links:

1) In an attempt to get one step ahead of Internet bank fraud, IBM is offering a PC-on-a-stick.

2) I am not a cat person, so I read with amusement how your cat is making you crazy. There's a wonderful SF story or two in there.

3) Apparently, the current clown-car-crop of Republicans found biofuel funny. Well, the US Air Force dares you to laugh at their biofuel. It really is sad how stupid the current political debate has gotten.

4) A quick reminder of the costs of war and why we shouldn't be in a hurry to get in one.

5) A reminder - I will be down in Westville tomorrow signing books at our lovely new library.

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Question: what smaller "less destructive" war are you angling for?

Air attacks on Homs? (Unlikely to actually stop them) - or something more than that? A ground invasion through... er...? Where exactly?

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Question: what smaller "less destructive" war are you angling for?

At a minimum, airstrikes against their nuclear and missile capabilities, to be repeated if they show signs of rebuilding. At a maximum, the conquest of Iran.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

So you want to have air strikes of limited effectiveness or an impossible invasion?

Nice.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

A ground invasion through... er...? Where exactly?

I'm not sure what you mean by "where exactly?" Do you envision the geography of Iran as being in some way mysterious or unknowable, unlike the geographies of other countries.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the better question is whose army were you planning to use? Iran will be a much tougher nut to crack than Iraq.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

It is because the geography is well known and understood that I asked.

And like Chris I was wondering which army you were planning to use and which friendly power bordering Iran you were going to use as a staging/logistics post.