This appeared in the NYT in response to their article about Bob Burnquist's megaramp.
A Ramp to Self-Indulgence
To the Sports Editor:
Re “A Skateboarding Ramp Reaches for the Sky,” Nov. 1: Clearly, Bob Burnquist can be described in many ways: risk-taker, athlete, committed and passionate come to mind. But the one word that is never applied to his high-adrenaline world of X Games participants and their fans is bored. After all, one has to be really bored — or convinced that the mundane world is too difficult to handle — to conceive of such an idiotic, wasteful and valueless pursuit as the world’s largest skateboard ramp. Seth Beckhardt
A lil reactionary, not to mention the weird supposition that there are two "worlds"--one "high-adrenaline" and the other "mundane"--inhabited by skateboarders and normal people respectively. Would that it could be so, Seth! Skate Planet! I'll write a letter to NASA asking them to keep the Hubble searching. I'm sure they have time to poke around the galaxy; they're probably really bored - or convinced that the mundane world is too difficult to handle - to conceive of such an idiotic, wasteful, and valueless pursuit as the world's largest telescope.
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