Why Tiger Woods Prefers Blondes


Here is the dumbest newspaper article I’ve read in quite a long time. I mean dumb not just in the sense of failing to understand what most everyone else surely understands, or of taking a rolling-on-the-floor obvious point and considering it to be an original one, but of being stubbornly virtuous, too—everything that’s wrong with newspapers, in other words, boiled down into one article.

It’s by Eugene Robinson, a syndicated newspaper columnist and former Washington Post editor, who, Wikipedia tells me (because Robinson undoubtedly told Wikipedia), has won the Pulitzer Prize and is a frequent guest on the Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Matthews shows. Robinson is, I infer, a liberal.

His article is about sex, a subject newspaper people should probably not be writing about—at least not if they come out of that long sexless tradition called a family newspaper (tabloid reporters, on the other hand, are poets on the subject of sex, albeit with limited vocabularies). It’s about Tiger Woods’ sex life. Eugene Robinson, being a liberal, doesn’t, in theory, so much have a problem with Tiger Woods having had extramarital sex (though he digresses to point out that, personally, he believes adultery is bad), but with the women Tiger Woods has had sex with.

He thinks Woods should have had sex with smarter women.