{"id":3022,"date":"2002-11-13T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T10:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2002-11-13T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2002-11-13T10:25:50","slug":"this-pisses-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=3022","title":{"rendered":"THIS PISSES ME OFF"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, I think golf is a stupid game. My attitude is best summed up by the famous Michael Schumacher response to the question \u0093Do you play golf?\u0094: \u0093No, I\u0092m still young enough to enjoy sex.\u0094<\/b> (I love taunting my brother the golf fanatic with that).
\nBut the recent uproar over August National has taken a turn for the stupid.
\nFirst, the leading critic of Augusta, Martha Burk, deserves an abject apology from Porphyrogenitus<\/a> (of Ranting Screeds), Instapundit<\/a> and Kathryn Lopez<\/a> of NRO, for their dumb-ass misreading of her Ms. Magazine article. In well-read society, prefacing something with \u0093A modest proposal\u0094 is usually a dead giveaway that what follows is pointed satire, as her article obviously was. (I wrote an economics paper for a Marxist economist a long time ago entitled \u0093A modest proposal\u0094 in which I suggested that we simply make being poor a capital crime. Dumbass didn\u0092t get it either, until I shoved Swift’s book under his nose.) Lopez then gives a half-apology here<\/a>, in which she makes this profoundly wrongheaded statement:<\/p>\n

I did, in fact, have the piece. I also suspected Burk didn’t really want to sterilize all men. However, Burk, a feminist writing that in Ms. was not the same as the likes Rod or Jonah writing the same thing on NRO. Ms. folks do believe men are the problem, and, frankly, anyone who has spent too much time exposed to feminist literature knows that.<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So instead of relying on what Ms. Burk actually said<\/u>, we\u0092ll rely on what Lopez thinks she knows<\/u> about her audience. Stupid, embarrassing, and the apology itself requires an apology.
\nPorphyrogenitus is usually a lot better than this.
\nInstapundit missed on that one too, and I trust that he\u0092ll be as quick at backing off as he is in stepping forward.
\nAs far as I\u0092m concerned, Augusta has the absolute right to remain private and discriminatory. But they ought to have the decency to do so behind closed doors, and they gave that decency up when they started hosting a national, public (i.e. open to non-members) golf tournament.
\nIf a bunch of old rich guys want to buy a golf course and go play with each other, I\u0092m all for it. But don\u0092t run a $10 million a year enterprise out of it and then keep claiming it\u0092s a \u0093private\u0094 matter.
\nCalpundit<\/a> is all over this.
\n(added links)
\n(edited for tone and grammar)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, I think golf is a stupid game. My attitude is best summed up by the famous Michael Schumacher response to the question \u0093Do you play golf?\u0094: \u0093No, I\u0092m still young enough to enjoy sex.\u0094 (I love taunting my brother the golf fanatic with that). But the recent uproar over August National has taken a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}