I have two suggestions to offer on the Tiger Woods situation. First, I really don't give a damn whether he "lied" to "everyone"--or anything else he did in his private life. In a celebrity-obsessed culture like ours, we seem to give permission for people to pry into the intimate lives of others, especially celebrities, which mainly gives insight into such people who pry: their lives seem to me empty, else they'd have better things to do. Such people, in my view, have no business prying into others' business, and I wish they'd all shut up. Tiger is justly famous for playing golf with rare and thrilling skill. That's all, and that's all that ought to matter. What compels people to try to turn him into a hero, and then are disgusted when he turns out to be just as foible-ridden as the rest of us, ought not to surprise, but to evoke pity, or compassion.
That leads into point #2. I see so little effort on the part of people who would like to enter his his life with condemnatory comments to try, with some effort, to offer him understanding. For whatever his reasons, some of which he's discussed publically, he fell victim to his own humanity. For heavens sake! Doesn't he deserve the same consideration as anyone who's made a mess of things in his private life. Understanding, or its attempt, ought to be the first reaction on all our parts, when other peoples' trouble become revealed to us. It would take us a lot further than all the lip smacking in the world.
