Some headlines just smack you in the face. This was the one that hit me today: “Why Saudi Arabia Might Be the Next Silicon Valley,” from TechCrunch.

My first thought was, “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.” But I didn’t want to be hasty, so I looked back through a lifetime of reading, and when I was done—yup, that’s definitely the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. To be fair, the worst offender was whoever wrote that headline. I guess that in his enthusiasm for the vision of Saudi silicon, he missed this recent headline: “Twitter, Saudi Arabia’s Top Cleric Says, Will Damn Your Soul.”