July 11 - Wow! 436 Yards . . .


"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument."
- William G. McAdoo

He drove the green on a 440yd hole. 30+ yards longer than any other drive on the tour this year. Hard to get one's mind around.

The mess here is just unimaginably bad. It feels like the whole region is just melting down.


This kind of thing makes me really angry. Science struggles with credibility among the general population enough without stuff like this. 

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