On the other hand. If this happened to any of us no one would hear about it. If this was Norman Woods in Albuquerque would any of us care? This is the sort of thing that happens fairly often but Tiger is going to be the subject of endless conjecture (much of it likely true) late night talk show jokes and front page tabloid coverage. He seems to be a decent guy but he's going to get a lot more crap over this than any of us would get.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.