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What if Tiger goes Rogue ?

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As the world learns more about the Tiger Woods incident this last weekend, they all wanna know more. Sure enough the causeways that are human avenues of communication, intrigue and idolatry will fill that vacuum. I've golfed about two times and never understood the sport as more than an amusement for incredibly dull people. But I like baseball and they pay those guys a lot too. calvin.jpg

My question is not whether things like infidelity, smashed windows, scratched faces and potential DUI charges are filed. Not whether his endorsements at risk, his swing effected or the squeaky clean image gone. Rather, I wonder whether he will take off the skirt on go all Agassi while he's still top of the heap. That is, just admit that golf is something his dad made him do and now that he's liberated from the burden of expectations, do as some great personalities in history and forge a blazing new path beyond the previous shell of existence that they were before.

Suppose he just kept the window smashed for a few weeks. Started getting brazenly drunk sputtering whatever came to his mind even while the paparazzi still followed him. Pissing on the Nike endorsements and backing Joachim Phoenix's new career as a rapper. All the while still showing up to major events and kicking everyone's ass anyway. That would be a truly GREEEAAAT Tiger.

The Big O's new book . . .

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Jim Ostrowski has a new book out.

It's always a pleasure to come out of a blogging coma and to do so with a recommendation to get and read Jim's latest. This one is about education. Besides the military, no entity is considered a more vital public good than education. To call for a mass exodus of the system is a bold declaration, can Ostrowski pull it off ? I'll be getting mine post haste and will see you on the other side of a review of it. I couldn't finish that last one I started . . .