A friend of mine sent me these posts from a golf magazine’s online forum.

Many of your readers are politically conservative and do not appreciate Golf Digest pandering to Al Gore and his climate hysteria.  The climate change movement is simply an international socialist conspiracy with the goal of empowering government to control every aspect of Americans’ lives.  It is simply a trick designed to get government tentacles into as much of the private sector as possible. 

Thank You golfan4.  This is a golf magazine and website.  Please leave Algore’s money making, socialist scam out of golf.  No doubt Golf Digest is under pressure from the rest of the left leaning media to address this subject.  Please don’t submit to the pressure.  Just keep talking about GOLF.

It is kind of hard for me to process that there are people out there that still need convincing about the imanent perils of climate change.  Needless to say, it defies comprehension that there are assholes like these two, or like R. Joe Barton, who can keep a straight face as they deny.  Sadly this kind of inbred ignorance isn’t limited to some simple southerners.  A Canadian author, Lawrence Soloman, who has written The Deniers, a book which makes the claim that there are actually respected scientists out there who refuse to be bullied into all this global warming nonsense.  Shame on you Mr. Soloman.  Shame.

Anyone who has been reading this blog for awhile has probably figured out that I am vehemently anti Harper and his cronies.  The flabby jock John Baird is a particular nemesis of mine.  That being said, our home grown industry puppets have nothing on Bush and co.  It doesn’t take a lot of looking before one starts to become convinced that there is a concerted effort being made by politicians who have been bought by big business, to confuse the discussion with false accusations and problematize real solutions.  Take Senetor Jim Inhofe for example.  The fact that Fox News backs him is reason enough to think he’s a royal asshat. I believe one day we will look back on these obstructions as criminal acts.

I listened to an American woman vent earlier tonight about the state of her nation.  ”Lot’s of things are going really bad”, she said.  “Everything seems really bad”.  She was scared that at 56 she was going to have to retrain for the third time to adapt to a changing job market.  She had no faith in any of the candidates who were running for office, and yet she saw no alternative but to be led by one of them.  It occurred to me while we were speaking just how far we’ve come from my grandparents generation where the word career was not obsolete.  We shared a wish to return to a life in which you could hand a business between generations.  A return to a system that sees people as… people, not as eligible workforce, or skilled labour (pick your euphemism for market resource).

So this is what I think.  I think the majority of people would actually be happier if we returned to a simpler, more localized way of life.  I am not being Utopian here, nor am I necesitating any specific ideological outlook.  In my experience, moost people feel like fantastic future the fifties projected, hasn’t worked out like it was planned.  More and more I sense in people a real desire to live in a meaningful world again.  Why should we let these disingenuous liars manipulate the decision making process so that we’re all left sucking the mop in a big way.