Thomas H. Wyman has resigned from the Augusta National Golf Club over the issue of the club's rule against admitting women
You don't have to take a position on the issue of admitting women to the club to see this as a remarkable bit of hypocrisy on Wyman's part.
First of all, Wyman has been a member of Augusta for 25 years. Throughout that entire period of time there were no women members.
Second, Wyman is the former head of CBS which happens to be the network that carries The Masters golf tournament which is hosted, owned, and run by the Augusta National Golf Club.
Third, according to the New York Times, CBS has televised The Masters tournament for 46 years which would mean CBS had the Masters during the period that Wyman was both the head of CBS Television and a member of Augusta.
Fourth, It is entirely possible that the ONLY reason Wyman got into Augusta in the first place was because he was the head of CBS which was televising the Masters.
Finally, why - during the past quarter century - did Mr. Wyman, upon putting his ball on a tee at any of the 18 holes as part of a foursome which included - by rule - no women, did he not see Augusta's policy the way he sees it now as "unacceptable" and "pigheaded?"
Moron.
A story in the Toronto Globe & Mail expresses surprise that a poll taken in October of this year found that only eight percent of Americans could name the Canadian Prime Minister while 90 percent of Canadians could correctly name the President of the United States.
The article goes on to note that, "When asked to name the capital of the other country, 88 per cent of the Canadians said Washington and 21 per cent of the Americans got Ottawa right."
The article points out that the poll was taken before the communications director of the Canadian Prime Minister called the President of the United States a "moron." She offered her resignation, the Prime Minister refused it, but she ended up quitting anyway.
In my opinion, that makes the barely known Prime Minister of Canada, a moron.
This, on the heels of a National Geographic study which showed that American school children could barely identify Canada on a map, much less know the name of its Prime Minister.
In fact, according to the National Geographic, "About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent."
On one of the all-news stations here in Washington, a reporter asked residents of Maryland to name that State's capital. While the exact number escapes us now, a disappointingly significant proportion said, "Baltimore."
This is not the fault of the children, but of curricula which place a higher premium on knowing the ecological dangers of cutting down rain forests than in knowing where the disappearing rain forests used to be.
We are specifically designing our educational system to make geographic morons out of our children.
Finally, you might be able to buy everything on eBay, but you can't SELL everything on eBay.
According to the Dallas Morning News, "An Internet auction on eBay ended Monday without a single bidder for a getaway car ... purchased with the proceeds of a robbery ... [and] once used by the so-called Texas Seven prison escapees."
The escapees (known in Texas as exkaypees) "donated the 1986 Honda Accord to a Colorado church" which then put it up for bid starting at $10,000 as an "a "historical collectors item" which happened to be used in the commission of the murder of a police officer.
I don't think it is proper to call the pastor of a church a moron - even in Colorado - so I will turn the other cheek.
On the Secret Decoder Ring today:
Links to all the articles above, a Mullfoto of the Day, a Catchy Caption...and the name of the Canadian Prime Minister.
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