There have been a few people who have asked me, "why haven't you written about Tiger Woods in the past month?" so I have to put out my official statement on the matter. There will be no postings on this site about Tiger Woods or any of his "transgressions". I do not believe that a rich, powerful, super famous athlete who sleeps around on his wife is news. That is just life. It will be news if a rich, powerful, super famous athlete lends their name and voice to something more meaningful than their wallet. When athletes like Michael Jordan leave the statement "republicans buy sneakers too" for their agents, and speak up for the folks that work in the Nike factories and shops, THAT will be news.
This is not an indictment against Nike or Tiger or Michael Jordan. This is an indictment on a society that is so easily distracted by a sports star or a sex scandal that we are missing the real "transgressions". There are two wars, that do not seem to be coming to an end any time soon. Poverty so horrific that you don't have to stay up late at night to see on an infomercial, just drive around your town a few times, take a good look at all of the foreclosure signs. There is genocide going on, I don't mean in Africa or some Third World crumbling nation, but right here 45,000 people die due to a lack in health insurance. That is preventable! We do not have to live and die this way. More men and women die due to insufficient health insurance each year than drunk driving and domestic homicide combined.
So that is why we must say no to the tabloids and stop reading about paper tigers. We should not allow ourselves to be so easily distracted to focus so much of our time and energy into the personal dealings with just another man. He is just another guy. Tiger Woods is not, nor has he ever been a god. He is just a regular man with an amazing amount of golfing talent and a very full social calendar.
