thomas chatterton williams, whose main literary output is three memoirs of declining quality, and who has written the same essay ad nauseam for 10 years, nonetheless has a sinecure at the atlantic, a teaching job at an elite college, and a nice handful of prestigious fellowships

Thanks for posting that. Someone I know has been working w/ a group seeking to minimize pesticide & fertilizer application in our parks, & there's steep opposition to that at the city golf course.
Of course w/ the public ones, there's a much better chance of it than w/ the private courses.