Re: a political being

Daniel,

Sorting through what I can, I'll try and answer.

You ask:

"In your way of thinking wouldn't the holes themselves be the most political
part?"

I don't know what this means, but I was speaking strictly of political deals
and influence and negotiations often made between businesspeople and
politicians on our local golf course, much of it on the tees between holes. You were
apparently trying to make some other point about something, I guess.

Then you say:

"I know John O., tribesman dancing around the fire or manicured professionals
chasing white dimpled balls around mega acre recreational facilities, your
needs are simple."

Well, I don't know about my "needs," but these are for me two very different
things. Playing golf is fun. Those National Geographic shows were mildly
interesting. Church was a drag. And discussions about god stories I,
personally, often find just boring, whether they are the gods-we-need stories of
dark-skinned men and women in jungles or the gods-we-need stories of light skinned
men and women on the weekends.

As for golf migrating to "institutions of higher learning" -- there are two,
count them two people who play golf in my entire building (that's several
departments full of faculty). I'd be hard pressed to get a foursome together from
the whole college of Arts and Sciences. So at least where I work, there has
been no such migration.

The rest of the post seems like some sort of attempt at bad word jokes, so
I'll ignore it, except to say, because I know it will delight you, that I do
indeed own my own golf cart.

Still livin' large,

--John

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Received on Tue Jul 29 19:02:38 2003