Oh how America loves a great fall. I’ve held back on the recent Tiger Woods watch, not because there was nothing to talk about but more so there was so much to talk about and astoundingly not about Woods himself.
What was there to talk about? How about, booty calls, ambien, the institution of marriage, how women feel about infidelity versus how men feel about it. There’s the difference between getting a little something something on the side when you’re rich vs. when you’re poor and have to pick your date up in a Ford Focus instead of a yacht called ‘Privacy’. Be honest, if Tiger’s name was Lamont, drove a Corolla and was the manager at Jack In The Box, there would be no scandal. There’s the guys who say how stupid Tiger was that with all that money he should have never gotten caught and women say how Elin should get half of that money after only five years of marriage.
There’s the tabloid, and digital media like US and OK and People Magazine (Yeah, I said their names and People Magazine, yes you are a tabloid.) whom have clearly taken sides with their female base. Online publications one would think would be above the fray like the Huffington Post, CNN, and others, eventually strayed from reporting and gave in to the sensationalism of it all and started their own girlfriend count and embraced anything that TMZ had to say, confirmed or not. Read more...(1048 words, 1 image, estimated 4:12 mins reading time)
Update the good ole bookmarks. It’s official. www.digitalpolitic.com has completed its change to:
www.digitalpolitical.com
If you continue to use digitalpolitic.com, you will be seamlessly redirected, however why be redirected when you can have the direct connection. On the horizon, look forward to The Digital Political to continue it’s look at political interests, but also include more on the politics of living… like, the politics of job hunting, house hunting, where the good groceries are and more…
On a bright late spring afternoon, the silver cup symbolizing the United States Open Golf Champion was lifted to the sun and kissed by the number one player of golf on the entire planet earth. He earned this passionate moment after limping his way through ninety-one holes of excellence and hell. At times, he played as if he were a Sunday golfer who had more daydreams of greatness than game, as his ball careened off of trees and barely missed taking out spectators. However, at the times that counted most, he looked like a pro golfer, the best of his generation and generations to come. He looked exactly like Tiger Woods. What billions of people see and who they saw had no color. He had champion. He had legend. He embodied the game. No television commentator began making the obligatory how far we have come references. They didn’t mention that the golf tee was invented by and patented by George Grant, African American. Or that it wasn’t until 1975 that Lee Elder became the first black to play at the Masters Tournament at Augusta National or that it took until 1991 for Augusta National to admit it’s first black member. No, on this late spring day and any day to follow, Tiger Woods, even more so than Michael Jordan because his talent rested in basketball, has transformed a sport. Woods, has changed golf so that any person of color. Any person period, can show up with clubs in hand and be suspect of becoming one word, champion. And when they do become champion, they are compared to all champions. Read more...(496 words, 1 image, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)
