PUTTING LINKS

Republicans and twelve irons... the connection is even more pernicious than I thought. Here's a piece that Michael Crowley wrote more than a year ago:

The Republican obsession with golf reveals the party's phony posturing as the champion of average Americans. All the hand-wringing among Democrats about why liberals don't go to NASCAR races or duck hunts misses the fact that Tom DeLay and Bill Frist don't go to monster-truck night with the guys from Deliverance either. They hit the links at exclusive country clubs with rich donors and corporate lobbyists. That's who they are. Golf is an expression of the party's elite upper-class id. And that id is what's corrupting the party.

[Hat-tip: AM]

My feelings about golf are summed up by the scene in Falling Down where Michael Douglas creates mayhem on a green and inflicts a coronary on a man in silly striped trousers. Why doesn't that ever happen in the Open?

Oh dear, I just tried to Google up a photo of that episode. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that Douglas runs his own celebrity tournament. Pass the Uzi.