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link Tiger Woods photographed outside Mississippi rehabilitation centre where he is reportedly being treated for sex addiction | Herald Sun.

Of course we don’t know exactly how this came about.  How was the decision made to identify Tiger’s “condition” as an affliction that needs treatment?  Are we to believe that:

a) Tiger recognizes that because of his fame, fortune, high powered friends and exalted status among athletes,  getting access to willing young women is a horrible burden of the business and is a bad thing

b) His wife says that the above is a bad thing

c) His sponsors say that it’s a bad thing especially if he gets caught

d) His mother gave him the ol’ ear twist

e) His current girlfriend thinks he should go so she can be exclusive

f) His business managers told him to go in order to salvage whatever status he may have as a sympathetic character and to pave his way back to the tour so they can all make money again.  It certainly can’t be Tiger’s fault if it’s a disease.  This horrific ailment which co-incidently only afflicts young men in the sports and entertainment industry with lots of fame and available money, must be appropriately treated.

Of course there is precedence for this.  David Duchovny, Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen all had to live through this horror before being admitted to treatment.  Sadly we have seen the tragic consequences of this affliction if allowed to go untreated.  Apparently,  after numerous serial sexual encounters, blood stops circulating properly in the brain and judgement suffers.  In severe cases like Warren Beatty and Wilt Chamberlain, the victim loses the ability to count.

People who may fall victim to this malaise are fortunate to have facilities established to properly treat them.  Naturally, there can be no temptations of any sort at the facility that can cause the patient stress. 

As I understand it, there are two schools of thought on how to treat sex addiction.  The first is from the abstinence and avoidance path.  In this program, the facility is staffed by mainly hirsute males and the patient is exposed to nothing at all which has any hint of women.  They are allowed to watch entertainment including sports and news and certain TV shows like The View and Joy Behar.  As part of the therapy, men’s magazines are available, but all have been rigged to have full facial shots of Rosie O’Donnell and an embedded chip that shrieks “I WANT YOU NOW!” when opened.

The other school of thought is to overstimulate the patient with images and videos of comely gals every minute of the day from wake up to bedding down at night.  They are forced to watch videos of The Girls Next Door in a constant loop until they cannot bear to hear them say one more inane thing.  By the time 6 weeks are over, they will avoid busty blondes like they were E-Coli sandwiches.

We don’t know which method Tiger will endure, but we all pray he can recover.

link Cameron hearts ecoterrorism — WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH?#more-5646

Whatever people’s political leanings, if they feel passionately enough about an issue, they are bound to say some extreme and in hindsight, dumb things. All sides of the political spectrum will provide examples of this. Recently, Pat Robertson, in an intemperate moment, expressed that the nation of Haiti may have brought the recent earthquake devastation upon itself by making a pact with the devil some years ago. Without question, this was a poor time to volunteer that opinion and he was excoriated by the media and the political left and right alike.

In a recent interview according to the linked article, Mr. Cameron of recent Avatar fame, let it be known that he would certainly advocate “eco-terrorism”. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion since, like noses, everyone has one. Of note however is the notable silence on the part of the media on Cameron’s advocacy for violent means to support his views. No doubt Mr. Robertson and Mr. Cameron are sincere in their sentiments, it just so happens they expressed their opinions publicly.

As well as rebuking Robertson for his remarks, we neccesarily also have to weigh past and future opinions from him in a somewhat skeptical light. It doesn’t discredit everything he says, but the view of his judgement has suffered. Having said that, we weren’t actually there when the devil made the deal.

For Mr. Cameron, whose genius in film-making is certainly not matched by his logic in real world matters, we should consider what he is is advocating.

We assume “eco-terrorism” entails the destruction of things deemed to be harmful to the environment, which could include oil and gas drilling sites, power stations, forestry operations, mine sites or any kind of factory. The target list can be quite exhaustive since there will always be some way to rationalize the detrimental aspects of any kind of industry. Heck, even Starbucks coffee, the staple consumer item of the green set uses paper cups, so it’s just a matter of time until someone jumps on their case.

Let’s also assume that the hundreds of millions of dollars used to finance his epics came from conscientious people who buy into his worldview and not for reasons of glorious profits in case the films makes it big. These film making costs can only go up in the future because the price of walking the green walk will entail finding hybrid or electric airplanes to ferry people and equipment around to all the shooting sets. Either that, or use horses and mules.

In this scenario also, movie theaters that show the films would not use nasty old electricity gleaned from hydro electric power dams or coal fired plants. Instead, all theater goers will sit on bicycle-like devices and everyone will collectively pedal to power the projectors required to show the film. It’s likely Cameron will have to make shorter films, because bicycling for 3 hours seems like an iffy proposition. Not to mention, fewer people will go to the movies on a romantic date.

As well, he is now pushing new technology in his films, the introduction of 3-D effects. Naturally, they will have to stop handing out the free plastic viewing glasses because of plastic toxicity. They will have to make these viewers out of something biodegradable, perhaps sugar crystals that can later be eaten.

This obviously won’t work well, but as we all walk the green walk it’s likely that we’ll turn back the hands of progress of most everything we do including aspects of entertainment that we take for granted. I don’t know what forms they will take but I wouldn’t throw away the old radios.