TC the Terrible

Leonard Shapiro is drinking the PGA Kool-Aidâ„¢.

He’s got two pages worth of drivel in the late edition of today’s Post trying to explain why the Fuehrer of the PGA, Tim Finchem, was right in taking away our golf tournament. Shapiro is acting as nothing but a glorified apologist for Finchem. To take a tournament away from DC for the sake of a few dollars is half a pubic hair short of criminal.

Avenel needs work to be a world class course, true enough. And the PGA should be the ones to pick up the bill. After all, it was their short-sightedness that caused the course to be built on the cheap in the first place. The north course at Ft. Belvoir is as challenging as anything on the tour now, shy of the majors. It could host the tourney for a couple of years until Avenel is ready again.

But for a local writer, working at a major publication, to even conceive that it’s okay to take FedEx’s money and hope that someday in the future Herr Finchem graces us with a tournament is ludicrous. Can’t he see that the best shot we have for an event is in the fall? And it won’t in all likelihood be a part of the PGA/NASCAR “Race for the Card”, so why the hell would top players come?

He’s full of crap and pipe dreams to think that we’ll ever have a major event here again. Shapiro needs to start collecting checks from the PGA Department of Propaganda if this article is any indication of his true feelings.

This story about the IRS building being shut down reminds me of a guy that I went to high school with. To protect his identity, I’ll just call him Steve; as in Steve Jones.

Back in the day Steve bought a used pick up truck from the local Ford dealer. It was a real P.O.S. but it was his as long as he dropped the payment off every month at the dealership. A few months after Steve bought his truck the dealership folded for what amounted to lack of interest.

Steve was doing back flips with excitement. He figured that because the dealership was closed, and that was where he made his payments, that the truck was now his free and clear. What the boy didn’t understand was that Ford Motor Credit Company had financed his truck – not the dealership. The dealership was just taking the payments and sending them in for him. A pretty common thing 20 plus years ago in small towns.

Five months (and no payments later) when the tow truck showed up at Steve’s house and took his truck he was stunned. How many people out there are thinking (or at least hoping) the same thing about the IRS? Because we all know idiots that are hoping that the floods keep the IRS from collecting all those back taxes.

Other idiots in the news:

• Teenagers now rule the Internet. – MySpace.com is officially the most trafficked site in the world. That’s pretty telling commentary on the state of the world.
  
  
• Never let your ex get the house. – At least that’s how one guy looked at it. I can relate to the emotion and more power to him for at least giving it a try.
  
  
• Genetics can pay. – If you are dumb enough to think that Nike and Michael Jordon are going to pay you for a vague resemblance.