Ping?

March 28th, 2006 | by Craig |

Pong.

Sorry, old nerd joke there. An old IRC joke, at any rate.

Anyway, I’m still around, more or less. Been busy, and nursing my semi-annual blog burnout. (Or maybe it’s up to quarterly now.)

I’ve got some stuff in my “Draft Folder” that I doubt I’ll ever get around to mentioning, since it’ll be old news by the time I do, but I did want to comment on this op-ed that ran in the Missoulian.

It’s about what you’d expect out of Missoula: Some Saudi students come to Missoula, and the darned, ignernt natives get restless. And don’t forget those Evil Conservative Web Sites (the one in the article goes unnamed, but it appears to be World Net Daily.)

It’s hard to imagine why, given that the House of Saud exports Wahabism, and that a lot of the 9/11 hijackers were here on student visas. So, yeah, I can see why some people might be nervous. Not that there’s really anything of strategic importance in Missoula, or Montana, as far as that goes.

Anyway, the piece has an interesting conclusion, which seems to be, “If only we hated them more, we would be winning in Iraq,” and that there is religious strife in the US equal to that in Iraq.

So, let’s get to hating, so that we can win!

Or something.

I don’t know. It’s an early day tomorrow, so I’m going to sleep.

  1. 4 Responses to “Ping?”

  2. By Kim on Mar 28, 2006 | Reply

    Yo mang, we’re 150 buddies!

  3. By Montana Jones on Mar 29, 2006 | Reply

    Picking a nit. I think it a little disengenious to put the phrase “If only we hated them more, we would be winning in Iraq,” in quotaion marks. I could not find that phrase in the linked article, it is not a quote.

    I understand that it does make a reasonable summary and paraphrase of the piece but to set it in quotes is putting words into someone elses mouth.

  4. By dogette on Mar 29, 2006 | Reply

    Pong. Now you’ve tripped a previously unexploded mine in my brain’s vast field of irrelevant memory duds: we had one of the very first Pong machines. I remember how slow and lame it was, with that white square pixel ball slowly rutting across the screen. Bonk. “All your base are belong to us,” Dad used to yell, cryptically, when he was winning. Ahead of his time.

  5. By Craig on Mar 29, 2006 | Reply

    MJ–

    I wasn’t trying to be disingenuous; that’s how it seemed right to punctuate it, and also why I made sure to say “seems to say.”

    If I’m off on how that should be punctuated, I’m sure one of our expert grammarians will weigh in. :)

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