The Lady or the Tiger

I confess I’ve been watching more TV than I have in a long time, and now I remember why I stopped.  It’s making me lose faith in humanity.

My most immediate frustration is with the whole Tiger Woods ridiculosity.  As soon as the story starts to lose a little traction, we’re given a new set of pundits trying to deconstruct all the religious implications: would he have fallen to this level of licentiousness if he were a Christian?  [Answer: Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, Thomas Weeks, Michael Reid, Jimmy Swaggert, Tony Alamo, Father James Porter and his merry band of pedophiles; it’s a long, illustrious list, people.] We all know Woods’ philandering has nothing to do with Buddha or even some ersatz sex addiction for Dr. Drew to fix up. It’s all thanks to our own over-indulgent star-maker machinery chugging out trash by the bucketful.  Read the rest of this entry »

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