No Pain, No Game

Misery as merit, in another realm

Why would a fun, easy, social game be controversial? As far as I can tell, that’s why.

The other week, my wife and I and a couple of her old coworkers signed up for some pickleball classes at an indoor facility, out in one of those dreary one-story office/light industrial parks that are all over Northern Virginia. (They’re home, however, to all sorts of …