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February 28, 2006
Wikipedia, the game of obsessives
I passed - no wasted - some time this evening reading and arguing about several Wiki entries on the otherwise obscure conflict in the Western Sahara. This little remnant of the colonial era has found quite a little home among naive little American college students seeking causes.
Among the things I "leanred" was that there is an "intefada" going on in Morocco of the "Sahraouie" - oops, Sahrawi- people against the "most oppressive nation in the region" - that would be Morocco.
Weird, intefada, I have to say, as I travelled down south in Morocco last year and noted nothing. But according to the little American activists, there's an intefada. Silly me, having been in the Occupied Territories and detained by Israelis at gunpoint once, I would have thought I would spot on an intefada.
Posted by The Lounsbury at February 28, 2006 05:58 AM
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Comments
aren't american college students cute?
you're lucky you aren't physically surrounded by them every day as i am.
care to point us to the wikipedia entry?
Posted by: drdougfir at February 28, 2006 06:35 AM
Pure idiocy.
Posted by: The Lounsbury at February 28, 2006 07:26 AM
now now Col, be nice! those wikipedia kids have gangs! they'll come and give you digital papercuts!
also, if you berate them too much, they'll just ignore and ban you from wikipedia and do whatever they bloody well please.
Posted by: drdougfir at February 28, 2006 06:37 PM
As you might have noticed, I consider being banned for slapping down ignorant twits a badge of honour.
Posted by: The Lounsbury at February 28, 2006 09:00 PM
you must be running out of room on your shirt for all those badges!
perhaps you should enlist the support of fellow Aqoul'ers to thuroughly "slap down" these particular twits. i do so love ganging up on "kids."
Posted by: drdougfir at March 1, 2006 05:12 AM
Oh boys, things take fairly low threshold to qualify as "facts" for some people, don't they? Chairman Mao says and all that......
Posted by: kao_hsien_chih at March 1, 2006 05:25 AM
