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Spotlight on today's Bob Geiger guest commentary

We have a fairly full real-life calendar today, but before we go out the door, we want to at least draw our readers' attention to a Bob Geiger guest commentary which appeared within the editorial pages of this morning's Standard-Examiner. Although it obviously doesn't measure up in intensity to some of Mr. Geiger's earlier anti-WSU rants, its tone nevertheless seemed to us to be unnecessarily snarky and pedantic, in its seemingly unkind references "our beloved Weber State University" (Mr. Geiger's words). Perhaps our readers could give it a good close look, and let us all know what they think about it:

We confess that Mr. Geiger's "Ogden in economic renaissance" versus "WSU on NCAA academic probation" point and counterpoint main theme struck us as a trifle "odd," and more than a little bit of a reach. But heck, maybe that's just us.

Unfortunately, we don't have time this morning to indulge in our usual microanalysis; so we'll leave that to our gentle readers instead.

Slice it, dice it... ginsu knife it. Subject it to your own critique and/or praise, if you like. While definitely not the most profound Bob Geiger piece ever to appear on the Std-Ex editorial pages, we do believe it to be worthy of at least some analysis and discussion.

Let our gentle readers decide whether Mr. Geiger's latest magnum opus is the work of a genuine Ogden booster, who sincerely desires only universal excellence from the institutions of our wonderful city, or rather whether it's been squeezed out from the deepest reeking bowels of a mean-spirited (although uncharacteristically restrained) brooding remnant of the Lift Ogden Gondola Cult," who can never resist any opportunity to take another cheap shot at WSU.

Don't let the cat get your tongues, O Gentle Ones.