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Got a drunken call from Nuphy last night. By a strange turn of events, he's been made head of his department and isn't happy about it. Dildohead wrapped up his tour of the Southwest and is now in Manhattan, though he left some of his crap behind, so the old man presumes he'll be returning for a bit before the term starts. At least he helped Nuphy get the deck party-ready so we might actually have that cook-out we've been promised. (Or not. He's balking at buying the requisite Weber because he doesn't know where to store it in the off season.)
In any case, the annual dragon boat races are this weekend in South Chinatown (a month late according to the traditional calendar, but what the hey) and we made tenative plans to catch some heats in the afternoon and wind up at Spring World or Lao Szechuan for dinner. Does that sound appealing to any of y'all?
We made the error of getting into politics near the end of the call. Never thought I'd hear the "If we just left them alone..." argument from someone as educated, aware, and generally sensible as him. His response to the war-of-annihilation argument was also puzzling, since he seemed to think that even a series of suitcase bombs in our major cities would leave us stunned and collapsing instead of united as never before in murderous retaliation.
The line of debate did manage to conjour up frightening new possibilities I hadn't previously considered. Chief among them: What if Americans began adopting terrorist tactics? I don't mean the government squads, I mean regular good ol' boys. Nuphy doesn't think even the irradiation of Chicago by an al-Qaeda operative would trigger the nuking of the Middle East, but what if a team of ex-soldiers decided to take matters into their own hands? If their guys can smuggle a bomb into the States, what's to prevent domestic nutjobs from getting one into Mecca?
In any case, the annual dragon boat races are this weekend in South Chinatown (a month late according to the traditional calendar, but what the hey) and we made tenative plans to catch some heats in the afternoon and wind up at Spring World or Lao Szechuan for dinner. Does that sound appealing to any of y'all?
We made the error of getting into politics near the end of the call. Never thought I'd hear the "If we just left them alone..." argument from someone as educated, aware, and generally sensible as him. His response to the war-of-annihilation argument was also puzzling, since he seemed to think that even a series of suitcase bombs in our major cities would leave us stunned and collapsing instead of united as never before in murderous retaliation.
The line of debate did manage to conjour up frightening new possibilities I hadn't previously considered. Chief among them: What if Americans began adopting terrorist tactics? I don't mean the government squads, I mean regular good ol' boys. Nuphy doesn't think even the irradiation of Chicago by an al-Qaeda operative would trigger the nuking of the Middle East, but what if a team of ex-soldiers decided to take matters into their own hands? If their guys can smuggle a bomb into the States, what's to prevent domestic nutjobs from getting one into Mecca?