Ghost of a flea

Canada as an old and destroyed city? Might make for an intriguing Gamma World campaign.

If it was not for the AD&D alignment system, I would say Gamma World's random mutation table was the ultimate RPG achievement.

No no, the ultimate RPG achievement has to be the NPC Quick Kill chart in the Morrow Project ;^D

Related to the topic at hand: 'Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Assassin's Creed' LOL

I swear, we're heading towards Gamma World...

I dig Stepheh Napper. It is the literal transcription of what politicians (of all parties) do.

Steng Peng Beng would be a top-flight name for a panda, too. I like to think its Mandarin translation is "Bowl Cut Mountain".

I confess I am now possessed by an unholy urge to run a Toronto-based Gamma World campaign. I am undecided whether Steng Peng Beng is a mutant or a lonely Pure Strain Human.

For what it's worth, I've heard nothing but good things about Graeme Smith from people who actually know him on a professional level. He has spent more time on the ground in Kandahar - embedded and on his own in Kandahar City and outlying areas - than any other Canadian journalist, period (he's been embedded with Cdn troops over there for over a year in total if you add it all up). I read what he writes with great interest.

Having said that, he works for a newsroom and editors that I believe have an ideological axe to grind. That headline bears very little resemblance to the content of the article. And don't forget that a frontline reporter all too often takes his marching orders from a boardroom in Toronto regarding what to cover.

Just sayin'.

Yay! Run it online!

I have to respectfully disagree with Damian on this. The headline rather perfectly describes the content of the article, which is all about the responses of Taliban grunts to the Globe's survey questions.

To get right down to brass tacks, 246 words of about a thousand are used to buttress the point that maybe the Taliban are not so media-savvy as to be organising their attacks for maximum political effect in the West.

I guess we're supposed to buy that Smith actually wrote much truckloads more about it, but his editors chopped all the relevant bits to satisfy their agenda? Sorry, don't buy it. I kind of think pointing out their ignorance of our world, and our ignorance of theirs, was the entire point. It is a point he has made before and will doubtless continue to make.

Feel free to believe whatever you like, Chris. I'm guessing I have a bit more to go on for my belief than you have for yours, though, and I'd be happy to discuss it further with you in e-mail.