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It's The Little Things That Weird Me Out
At the beginning of 2007 I started the first of my unfinished novels, which I called the Navy Book here on LJ. The basic premise was that at the beginning of a war with Iran, a U.S. carrier task force gets zapped nearly a century into the future, into a time when much of civilization has been wrecked by multiple nuclear wars and exchanges. The ( Read more... ) -
Some Fun Things, Some Fait Accompli
- American Folklore. Not only a fun site for itself, but inspirational if you're hungering for some story ideas!
- Earth's hum sounds more mysterious than ever. Who ever said geophysics was boring?
- Lots of food shortage-related articles lately, primarily when it comes to rice and grain. For your review, I've got Food rationing confronts breadbasket ( Read more... )
- American Folklore. Not only a fun site for itself, but inspirational if you're hungering for some story ideas!
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Another Question That Is Going To Sound Snarky...
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Iran: Why We Are Where We Are
Over the last few months I've occasionally heard folks in various forums laying our current situation with Iran squarely on the feet of Jimmy Carter. I'm assuming this is because of the Islamic Revolution, although they might want to at least consider the possibility of blaming that not on Carter, but rather on the fact that the Shah spent a ( Read more... ) -
Linkery From The Last Few Days
- Top ten things NOT to do if you're arrested. Some good advice I hope you'll never have to use.
- Giant, unknown animals found off of Antarctica. From the world's last great frontier in more ways than one.
- Arctic fantasies need reality check. A one-time oil industry geologists warns that dreams of huge easy-to-access oil fields in the Arctic are ( Read more... )
- Top ten things NOT to do if you're arrested. Some good advice I hope you'll never have to use.
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Recent Reading
- Bandit hypnotizing bank tellers, cashiers. Not from the BBC show I've been enjoying so much.
- The Bombers Who Weren't. An interesting piece about Muslims who drop out of the suicide bombing business.
- F-18 pilot returns home to canine friend from Iraq war zone. I love a happy ending!
- Dick Cheney's Error. A scathing piece about Cheney's now- ( Read more... )
- Bandit hypnotizing bank tellers, cashiers. Not from the BBC show I've been enjoying so much.
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I Wonder If They Know Something
Maybe it's a fear of terrorism...maybe it's a certainty that we're going to attack Iran and face homeland consequences...maybe both, maybe neither. But old Geiger counters (the classic-styled yellow-cased 1960's models that are today considered "unreliable" at worst and not nearly as good as the newer ones at best) that were selling for $20-25 on ( Read more... ) -
The Ramifications Of Attacking Iran
Late last week I was having an interesting conversation with jordan179 in the comments here about the ramifications of attacking Iran. Put (probably too) simply, Jordan took the position that attacking Iran would be easy with few to no problems for us as a result, while I took the position that it might be more difficult than we imagine and could cause some ( Read more... ) -
More Link Salad
I've noticed that I've had an upswing of these link posts. Granted I'm no jaylake (in more ways than one--and this is definitely not me complaining about your link salads, J.L.), but it does seem like the news has gotten more interesting lately.
- Castro Resigns--without a doubt the biggest news of the day. The Cuban government cites ill health; perhaps ( Read more... )
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*Iran: Time For A New Approach*
Yesterday I polished off Zbigniew Brzezinski's geopolitical work The Grand Chessboard, which calls for an American dominance of Eurasia and thus, by proxy, the world ( Read more... )