Linkums for March

• “Businessman” uses a .com to smear reporter. Hopefully Anonymous noticed and gets annoyed.

My appearance was ravaged by “years of consuming hormone-packed fried chicken and stressing over money.” Now, I’d found a way to save my sinking career by writing negative articles about China and taking kickbacks from short sellers.

• Good goulash. But I’d add a goodly amount of salt n pepper.

Charles DeGoulash?!

• German tactics @ Verdun. Reminds me of my undergrad years. Tragic, always. Good strategy but war is silly so, you could say, Verdumb.

The 5th Army planned an eight-hour preparatory bombardment across a 14-kilometer long front, which would fire some 1.5 million rounds.

• Following the recent elections, Amin Saikal suggests Iran has an opportunity to moderate.

Rouhani and his supporters are for now availed of a unique opportunity to move Iran in a direction of reform and moderation on both the internal and external fronts. How this will pan out, only time will tell.

• The Saudis seem to think so, too!

The apparent victory of moderates and reformists in Iran’s parliamentary elections this Friday has stunned hard-liners as it underlined the state of electorate mood and gave credence to President Hassan Rouhani’s reformist agenda.