I pay my own fees.

• Author: Boggs, Danny J.
• Position: Letter to the Editor

Because I have always enjoyed the fact-filled material in your magazine, though often disagreeing with it, I have a modest bone to pick with an article in your January/February issue ("Tilting at Windmills" by Charles Peters). The "Tee fees are on us" headline implies that the golf was paid for by sources other than judges themselves. This is a flat lie. While I do not play golf, at conferences or otherwise, it is simply untrue that golf or other recreational activities were paid for, or reimbursed by, the conference sponsors.

Your error is exactly the same as if a right-wing writer saw judges attending a law school conference in New York going into a Broadway play (or a strip club) and attacked the law school and the judges for being paid for such activities. I have a number of disagreements with the other arguments and implications made in your article, but those, at least, are matters...