Posted 1:15 PM by Gene

Speaking of Hollywood hacks, we should have commented earlier on this CORNER entry about the Masters. Somehow we are not surprised to learn that "An SI poll found that almost 90 percent of Tour players said invading Iraq was a good idea, and zero had seen Brokeback Mountain." (Nor are we surprised that Jim Nantz tap-danced around that, but we'll forgive him as we like him, and his former college dormmate Boom Boom's one of his best friends.) Just as show-biz types are college professors with looks and luck -- and if the Best Ac-TOR of 2005 is any indication, just luck -- so golfers are Realtors®, Babbitts to the nth degree and the 19th hole. Warren (a con-SER-va-tive Hollywood hack) is pleased, but he would be as they're his kind of conformists. Is it any wonder, with people retreating to their own nasally-congested hermetically-sealed warrens like the Hollywood hacks and the golfers, that we speak politics to each other with such vitriol?