re: Malcolm Gladwell

I was really enjoying his Revisionist History podcast until he got to the golf episode.

I love golf. That episode was on how he hates golf. That wouldnt bother me if he gave legitimate reasons on why he hates golf. The reasons he mentioned applied to like %1 of golfers or %1 of golf courses.

CEO's waste a lot of time on the golf course. Ok, who cares? many of them have worked their way up and have earned the right to play a lot of golf and how many golfers out there are CEO's of major corporations?

He had an issue with the space they took up and thought they could be better used as a walking park or something similar. He went to one gold course in the middle of the week and it wasnt very busy that day. Ok, well how about you go on the weekend and see the number of people out there having fun, hanging out with friends and playing a game they enjoy. Many of them hard working guys that he is trying to take up for. How busy is that park going to be on the weekend? I doubt its as busy as a group of 2-5 on every hole backed up from 7a.m. to 7p.m.

He hatred of golf was basically the same as hating Nike as a whole because you didnt like one line of shoe they put out. Get out of here with that crap.