RandyC --
WARNING! Sarcasm directly ahead!
Don't care for debate, eh?
You'd rather just drop in, tell us your "different viewpoint" (a viewpoint as old as television itself -- and way older than any rapper!), and have us roll over, play dead, and say: "Oh, gosh, RandyC, you're so right! Why didn't WE ever think of that? Gosh, darn it, you've got a point there: We don't have to watch golf on TV at all! No one's forcing us to do it! Holy cow, you're right! We're not strictly required to discuss golf broadcasting, or Ken Venturi, or any of it! Bless you for delivering us from our bondage to the tube!"
You write: "And how dare I invade the precious little clubhouse with a quote from someone in RAP MUSIC (it's not MUSIC!) for crying out loud!" Did I miss it when someone took issue with your quoting rap music? I don't think anyone objected at all to the source of your quotation -- but only to its content.
You write: "Forgive me if I'm a bit defensive but GOOD LORD does this site tend to have a stick up its collective butt and consider itself beyond reproach, way up there on its mighty high horse." I'll take you at your word and say: I, for one, forgive you. The stick up by butt forgives you. Even my mighty high horse forgives you.
But having forgiven you, we're not required to agree with you, are we? Where'd you get that idea?
You write: "(a collective sigh was let out as the unwanted guest went back to lurking. "Why... he must be a coward if he doesn't respond to our queries and yaps of indignation!," they cried. Guess I'm just yella. Or maybe I have better ways to spend my time.)"
You're not unwanted. You're perfectly welcome here. Just don't expect everyone else to roll over and play dead in the face of your proclamations.
If you have better ways to spend your time: By all means, do it! And if GCA sometimes seems like a good way to spend your time: By all means, do it!