I'm baaaaaaaack, sort of

I haven't posted in a long time, done in by the Scott Brown election, but my daughter tells me she misses my posts, and I like to make my children happy. So in December the world was going mad over Tiger Woods. Tiger frenzy has subsided a bit, especially after the Masters, where although he played well, he didn't win. I watched some of the Masters. For some reason, I find golf on TV strangely compelling. Unless a player is complete toad, I tend to want the ball to go in the cup. Tom Watson reached Toad status by saying something snarkey about Obama at an awards ceremony, and Retief Goosen is a permanent member of the Toad Club, along with Vijay Singh. Reteif for his mean and incorrect comments about Tiger dogging it during a tournament and making out that his knee was a problem. Tiger went on to have knee surgery and miss months of playing. Vijay Singh just for his generally stupid comments about women. But no longer is the press fulminating about all Tiger's transgressions, but perhaps since I don't read the tabloids, I am blissfully unaware of the latest woman claiming to have sex with him. One of the more disturbing aspects about Tiger was his brief hire of ARI FLEISHER!!! My god, not Ari. Who on earth would want ole Ari as their spokesperson. I guess Tiger's thinking was that if Ari could keep the public from uprising against the Idiot Prince, he could even represent Satan or at least the Pope. He must have figured his transgressions pale in comparison to those of the Bush administration, so why not give Ari a whirl. However, Ari blessedly disappeared from the scene, which was a great relief.

In the forest of the night

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20rich.html?em

Frank Rich had a column in the NYT comparing Tiger Wood's bamboozling of the American public into believing his clean image to the fraudulent behavior of Enron and the Bushies pushing of the Iraq war. Sorry, maybe people shouldn't be so celebrity obsessed, but really does it matter Tiger fostered and image of being a squeaky clean family man? I mean, is he to blame for promoting a clean image, after all what celebrity is going to promote an image of being a whore master? Wanting to believe that a sublime golfer had an unblemished personal life is not the same as being lied to about weapons of mass destruction or people being taken for all their money. Newsweek has a cover picture of Tiger with the words, "Why We Can't Look Away." Well I can. Hearing the salacious details of his sex life and the destruction of his personal life are not entertaining to me. I think it is the press who can't look away.

Tiger, Tiger burning bright

My daughter made me promise to start blogging again. I got caught up in the doldrums of the health care wars and became to gloomy to post. The Tiger Woods frenzy has prodded me out of semi retirement. I turned away from the dreaded MSM gasbags and discovered the restful nattering of Sports Center on ESPN. They all care so deeply about such trivial matters, that it is quite peaceful to hear them go on and on. But even that refuge is now lost to me because of TIGER! There is so much hand wringing about the poor, abused state of golf, which might loose some of their corporate sponsors, because no one particularly cares all that much about a tournament that doesn't include Tiger Woods. Without corporate sponsorship, the networks that cover golf loose money, which then has a terrible effect on the economy. So therefore Tiger has single handedly brought the economy to a screeching halt. Jeez, and I thought it was the miserly banks who won't lend money to the poor slobs on Main Street. And people are shocked, shocked that someone who makes a great deal of money in an extremely stressful profession, who travels a lot has sex with many cheese ball women. The conventional wisdom is that he right to slink away and try to patch things up with his wife and not play golf. Some golfer pointed out that his absence from the game might mean that other people might win a few majors, heh heh. Yes, it would be nice for him to salvage his marriage, but slink away from golf? Listen if David The Diaper Vitter and Larry Wide Stance Craig didn't slink away from the Senate, I see no reason for Tiger to pay a penance to anyone but his wife. And if anyone in the news business has any compassion for his wife, they should shut the f_k up and not cover all these women coming forward with all these torrid claims.