Well you survived a week without Lex and Lex survived a week with 50 Boy Scouts. I can report that, whatever your fears about the future of America, there is a cadre of boys learning and preparing to take responsibility.
It’s always a bit fun to be out of the loop – or at least more out of the loop than usual – for a week then come back and find out what you’ve missed. It’s sort of like Rip Van Winkle dosing off for a second.
Honestly the biggest shocker was drunk golf fans heckling their sport’s #1 draw Tiger Woods. The funny part was they were apparently heckling him for using an umbrella in a rain storm. "We're on Long Island, baby, where men are men!" one fan yelled. "Put that umbrella down!" Drunk idiots standing in the rain questioning the manhood of the guy with enough sense to get an umbrella is funny enough, but linking golf and manliness is funny as well.
I’ve watched golf and enjoy the skill required to play the game. But, few will call the golf the manliest of all sports. In my book, golf ranks just behind guys rolling 16 pound balls down a hardwood floor in order knock over 10 pins that the bowler doesn’t even have to then go set up - and just ahead of a couple of guys with a beer in one hand and a one pound bag cracked corn in other trying to pitch the corn bag into a 6” hole 33 feet away.
Whatever you might think of golf – and obviously I don’t think much of it – Tiger Woods is a great example of what happens when a guy takes his talent, works relentlessly and dedicates himself to a task. The drunks who were heckling him are probably back working the counter of the 7-11 this morning. They are at this very moment, pursuing a Maxim magazine, texting their buddies where they’ll meet for beers tonight and telling each other it could have been them if only they’d gotten the breaks Tiger got. Meanwhile, four customers wait to be checked out.
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