I just returned from a brief vacation in Carmel, CA, and discovered my email clogged with dozens of email regarding the propriety of pro-Obama posts. Fascinating reading. Thanks for 10 minutes of my life I will never get back deleting the emails.
Talking about Obama, he loves golf. Plays it as much as he can. While in Carmel, I played a round at Pebble Beach, which is one of the ultimate life events for a golfer. So I ask you PEN-L members: 1. My sense is there an an anti-golf progressive sensibility. Why? 2. From my persective, the Pebble Beach golf course is one of the most serene, aesthetically pleasing, uses of a majestic coastline imaginable. I truly believe that my life is better because the golf course exists (even if I never played it), in the sense my life is better because Mozart wrote a concerto, or the Eiffel Tower was built. It is difficult to imagine that it could be built today for a variety of reasons, but, assuming a hypothetical socialist California, could or should it be built? 3. The golf course offers and encourages the use of caddies. What is the correct progressive response to the use of caddies? If use the caddie, I am creating a master-servant anti-democratic relationship with another human being, while if I don't use the caddie, I am depriving another human being of limited means his daily income. What is the correct choice? David Shemano _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
