Where the Rubber Hits the Road

Carson Holloway, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha has posted an article on the First Things blog pages. In it he uses the teachings of Plato on the human soul to explain the recently revealed misdeeds of Tiger Woods. I highly recommend it. It provides some profound insights from this combination of ancient wisdom and all to common human failing. You can read the article here.

The National Post runs a story today about the eighth woman to step forward to having had an affair with Tiger Woods; this latest, a porn star. The story goes on to state that Woods is considering an appearance to confess at the altar of that cultural high priestess Oprah, where he will bare his soul to that semi-divine paragon of all that is "nice", correct, and proper, to he shall receive from her, through the sacred aura of the stage lights and television camera lens and amongst the sobbing gallery of her supplicants, absolution and penance for this "transgressions". After all, as some commentators have said in the wake of this sordid matter, what he has done "is no worse" than what perhaps 50% of the American public are themselves guilty of the same. Among the comments that quickly followed the posting of this story on the NP website was this delightful offering: "Is Oprah his next stop?" LOL, I guess that would make her #9. I apprecia...