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The Spring Sports Extravaganza continues with a tribute to the green mile!

That's right, Penguin has branded golf balls! The Box of 3 Titleist NXT® golf balls features a 392 mulit-dimple icosachedral design, in combination with a resilient Fusablend® cover providing more controlled ball flight for even longer distance while maintaining a soft feel tee-through-green.

Golf Quotes from Penguin Authors:

"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad."  ~A.A. Milne

"Golf is a good walk spoiled." ~Mark Twain

"It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling." ~Mark Twain

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law." ~H.G. Wells, Bealby, 1915

 

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"Wingnut's Last Day on Earth," my account of radical anarchists who protested the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle, was the first story I was ever assigned that was extensively covered on television. The anarchists themselves provided the necessary photogenic imagery by dressing in militant uniforms of black hoodies and masks, then smashing windows of Starbucks and other chainstores in Seattle. The media loves a riot. As I recount in Hella Nation, I could not get the story assigned until anarchists destroyed some property in front of news cameras.

In writing prose, it's always a struggle to create a narrative. So many details can remain contradictory even after the most vigorous reporting and research that culling out a cohesive and meaningful sequence of events is often a challenge. This was the case with the Seattle riots. 

Television news reporters have it easier insofar as images automatically create a narrative in a viewer's mind. The problem is, the image-driven narrative may not be accurate. In the case of the Seattle riots, televised images of rampaging anarchists told a false story. Most viewers assumed the anarchists started the riots. Having witnessed the event first-hand, as well as interviewed participants, it became clear that police instigated much of the violence, and ironically created the chaos which allowed the anarchists the freedom to begin their destructive rampage.