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Why I Should Have Stopped Reading the NYT After Happily Noting The Lamont Endorsement

I went on to accidentally read "The Untucked Country Club", an advertisement posing as a news article about a country club for golfers who do not like to tuck in their shirts. Here is an excerpt:

And forget about blue blazers. At the Bridge backward ball caps, jeans and even tattoos or face piercings (typically on guests in the music business) attract no steely stares.

In short, the Bridge — despite $600,000 membership fees, which make it one of the most expensive clubs in the country — is an anti-country club of sorts. It is not just the first high-end club in America that dares to be hip but, seemingly, the first one that cares to be hip.

Here's another:

“There are a whole lot of guys who make a hundred million a year, but they are anonymous,” Mr. Ferris said. “So they look for ways to reinforce their presence in the world.” Joining the Bridge, he said, is “another way to say to the world who they are, because most of these guys work at 4-foot-wide desks.” He added: “It says ‘I’m hip. I’m out there.’ ”

Yeesh. If I "made a hundred million a year" and was "look[ing] for ways to reinforce [my] presence in the world," I think I could come up with something better than joining a golf club.

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