Intro
If you think about it, there's really nothing funnier than a private club. When a group of people attempt to set themselves up in an exclusive, insular environment, it begs the question, "What's really so good about them?" As Robert Frost said. " something there is that doesn't love a wall ." My viewpoint probably mirrors Groucho Marx -- " I don't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member. " One could point to the decline of golf as the basis for questioning the rationale for country clubs and their private club urban cousins. Golf probably served a purpose when it became popular in the early 1900s, as getting out of the city was more a necessity than today. A trip to New Delhi today would probably give a good indication of the filth and squalor one would encounter in our own cities back then. Today fathers are more involved with familial duties and fewer families can afford (or want) the domestic staff that make long ...