In the jungle of life, Tiger Woods is king
Whew, I can finally move on with my life since Tiger Woods apologized to me and the universe. With that, I can comment on his heartfelt confession with the same sincerity and a giggle or two. It’s a pretty sad commentary on America when all the major networks leave their regular junk programming to present a golfer’s apology. He told his disciples that he was sorry for using his driver inappropriately, and who knows what he did with his putter. The media seemed to comment on just about everything this fallen idol said but ignored the final sentence of his statement. That’s the one I found to be the most significant. It seems as though Tiger declared his deity when he told America and the world to believe in him again. I quote his Tigerness; “I ask you to find room in your heart to one day believe in me again.” Yup, he actually said that so let’s get with it.
» Full StoryOn the web: What readers are saying
These comments are taken from articles, blogs and polls, which can be found at observertoday.com:
Poll — When schools are failing, do you support firing all the teachers?
? Teachers are only one-third of the equation.
Avoiding a ‘nightmare scenario’
I am responding to the article “Recovery Act brings mixed results” that was in the OBSERVER (Feb. 28, 2010). I had recently conducted my own little “study” into the use of this money in our area.
» Full StoryLong night brings next-day rewards
Monday – it was one of those days:
A random waitress was fired from the restaurant during my lunch shift because management needed to “cut back” on expenses.
Notes from readers are powerful
A note received by the OBSERVER’s editorial department was recently forwarded to me. The reader just wanted to let the staff know how happy he is that The Washington Post’s David Broder is back as a regular columnist on our Opinion pag.
» Full StorySexual schizophrenia
When it comes to human sexuality, the United States has a split personality. It is schizophrenic. On the one hand, we have a deeply ingrained, rigid Puritan/Victorian ethic, virtually unbending in its sexual standard.
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