Long Green in the Desert

Professional golfers are finding the green and the greens a lot greener in Saudi Arabia.

Perfect.

A bunch of entitled Republicans and walking billboards are giving up on the PGA tour and headed to Saudi Arabia for the single purpose of making even more money than the millions they make at home. Phil Mickelson is leading the way. I just finished Shipnick's book about Phil and learned many, distrubing things.

Here's one; beer money. Beer money is another term for what you carry around in your wallet, just in case.  I usually carry around some beer money. Usually a five dollar bill and three Washingtons which might buy me two Pabst Blue Ribbon drafts or one concoction from a local craft brewery. I'm still living in the past when a Bud draft cost 30 cents. 

Phil doesn't drink beer of course. He prefers the most expensive of wines, for which he sometimes pays.

According to Shipnuck, Phil routinely carries eighty one hundred dollar bills and thirty twenty dollar bills for a total of $8, 600 dollars and maybe a five or a ten. Dude walks around every day with $8,615 cash in his wallet. Most days he spends it on wagers along with whatever he is "risking" on insider trading deals that should have thrown him in jail ten years ago if he were Martha Stewart.

Dude makes Pete Rose look like a saint.

So that's allright. It's his money. So what if he's lost way over 40 million in gambling. A man should never gamble more than he can afford to lose. He can afford it, supposedly, but now the word is getting back that he has lost so much money that he's gonna grab blood money from the Saudi Arabia, a murderous country  well known for discrimination against women and oh yeah being the home of Bin Laden who enabled and led the attack upon the United States on 9/11.

Well let's call that a Mulligan. It didn't really count. Instead we bombed the shit out of Iraq.and got way too involved in Afghanistan.

Every day more and more American golfers are leaving the PGA and heading for greener pastures next in the desert. The guy who is another leader is Greg Norman,  known as the shark. Sharks are always attracted to blood in the water even if the water's in a desert and is money not sand.

Why not....they can make more money than even they and their children and grandchildren and their children can gamble away and still maintain their country club rights. Beautiful.

Yeah, I'm starting to regain my temper thank God. 

I've been upset about the mass shootings, the Covid, the inflation and the attempted takeover of the United States on January 6th. Nowhere near as upset as I would have been 50 years ago when I would have been furious every day. This is what happens when you get older. It's harder to lose your temper. We're happy to be alive. Time for other people to lead the charge. Unfortunately, the wrong people have grabbed the banner inspired by lies and misinformation.

Even last night when I watched the report on the January 6th attempted overthrow, I found myself disturbed over a review of actions and conspiracies that I already knew about and had tolerated with shame. We watched the first hour or so and then, somewhat bored, we switched to HBO and watched the documentary about George Carlin. At that point in the doc, Carlin was tearing apart the professional "sport" of golf. He described the amount of land in the world dedicated to this activity. The amount of beautiful land mass that totals approximately the size of Denmark and is off limits to almost all of the public. Instead that land is reserved for a bunch of entitled, racist Republicans who have been using that land all of their lives in order to gain the "skills" that allow them to make miillions of dollars and when that green is not enough, they can now migrate to a desert country where the green is even greener.

This is called (pardon the mixed metaphor) finding a crutch and milking it.

God bless 'em. It's the lesson they learned in the country clubs around the world where they grew up. Whaddya expect?

Why should we be shocked especially amidst the ongoing shocks that come every day here in the divided states. It's just another outrage that pales in comparison to the other outrages that occur every day in the land of the free.

This weekend is the United States Open. All of my life, I've watched this event. Since I became a father many years ago, that event has had special meaning. I no longer play golf but after this weekend, I may no longer even watch it.

I'm leaving the PGA, just like Phil although with a universe of difference.

Where's the next George Carlin when we really need him?

Where am I? Where are you?