It's bad enough to have trolls on a list of any sort, but to have blatant trolls is impermissible.
- Bill David B. Shemano wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
