Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Path: news.cinenet.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!uucp6.uu.net!world!mmcirvin From: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) Subject: Re: Socialism, Capitalism, etc. Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 18:53:52 GMT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <32eade53.30646847@news.onramp.net> <32dc2b95.42766675@news.onramp.net> <5bhfdt$7n2@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> <32dd5851.9456768@news.onramp.net> <5bhqeh$pbi@huitzilo.tezcat.com> <5bkh57$jn9@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <32DE67FB.5CBE@cstatf.mc.duke.edu> <32e231ed.1662557@news.onramp.net> Nntp-Posting-Host: ppp0a032.std.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: Software Tool & Die, Brookline MA X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0 Lines: 29 Xref: news.cinenet.net alt.religion.kibology:16672 In article <32e231ed.1662557@news.onramp.net>, eholmes@removethis.onramp.net (E.Holmes) wrote: > Nothing really lives on golf courses. They might as well be painted > concrete. Anyone who drives around on a golf course and thinks he is > in touch with nature is likely to watch network news and think he is > is touch with the world. Once, in my dentist's waiting room, among the "Highlights for Children" and "Biblical Archeology Review" issues, I found a heavy coffee-table book called something like "The World Atlas of Golf." The introduction was by Alistair Cooke. He talked about golf for a while and then went into a startlingly paranoid rant about how "Nader's Raiders" would soon get golf banned for being too elitist, after which the World Atlas of Golf would be the sole record of a vanished sport of grace and beauty. This was what convinced me that Alistair Cooke is insane. That, and the final episode of "America" in which he bought into the standard lament that America is decaying from within and will soon fall to the barbarians because of sexual permissiveness, and you can tell because the Romans were permissive about sex too, just like the USA, the most sexually permissive country in the world. I probably spelled his name wrong, but THAT'S OKAY IN THIS SOCIETY OF HELLBOUND LIBERTINES IN WHICH ANYTHING GOES. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was regarded as something shocking! -- Matt McIrvin