Tiger Woods is in trouble.  What golfing competitors couldn’t do to him on the green, he’s done to himself in private.  Eventually someone’s going to complain that we’re letting the poor man have it just for making a mistake.  But did someone say “Mistake?”  Evidence is emerging that this was anything but  a passion-of-the-moment tryst.  Woods apparently had a calculated lifestyle of adultery.  Moses wrote, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”  Sounds old, stodgy, and confining, doesn’t it?–laughable if you’ve got it going on with millions in sponsors, legions of adoring followers, talent, visibility, and fame.  It almost seems that a young billionaire ought to be  entitled to an exception.  His case is special, isn’t it?  Surely a very old commandment doesn’t control the behavior of someone who owns a jet and has a fan club.  Moses, it seems, can be outmaneuvered with this kind of thinking. (more…)

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