This is the title I chose for my personal blog, which is meant to give me an outlet for one of my favorite crafts – writing – plus to use an image from my favorite sport, golf.  Out of college, my first job was as a reporter for the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon, and I went on from there to practice writing in all my professional positions, including as press secretary in Washington, D.C. for a Democrat Congressman from Oregon (Les AuCoin), as an Oregon state government manager in Salem and Portland, as press secretary for Oregon’s last Republican governor (Vic Atiyeh), and as a private sector lobbyist.  This blog also allows me to link another favorite pastime – politics and the art of developing public policy – to what I write.  I could have called this blog “Middle Ground,” for that is what I long for in both politics and golf.  The middle ground is often where the best public policy decisions lie.  And it is where you want to be on a golf course.

Atlantic Magazine wrote this headline yesterday:

“Two wealthy and self-involved men are seeking the attention they crave.”

It was a headline to underline how stupid it is that two narcissists – Elon Musk and Donald Trump – are “generating news” again because Musk says he will allow Trump back on Twitter and Trump says he is not sure he wants back on.

The Atlantic writer went on:

“This entire incident is terrifically stupid.  The story revolves around the whims of two wealthy and self-involved men who enjoy nothing more than public attention.  It is an enormous waste of everyone’s time, and I resent having to think about it.”

Then, the writer not only thinks about it, he writes about it at length. 

Irony of ironies. 

He says the ego-driven duo don’t matter, then he writes about how much they matter to him.

I won’t, so this is the end!