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  • Tiger’s Threat

    Tiger Woods made the following comment during the final round of the CA Championship last weekend when a photographer took a shot in his backswing:

    The next time a photographer shoots a f****** picture on my backswing I’m going to break his f****** neck.

    He apologized for the threat, but not the language. That sounds about right. I don’t have an issue with cussing, especially when playing a competitive sport. It’s just not a big deal. I’ve never sat courtside at a professional basketball game or stood on the sideline of a football game, but I would imagine language can get a little uncouth.

    Golf being tagged as a “Gentleman’s Game” is a blessing and a curse. On one hand the visual is anything but that of what you would imagine fierce competition to look like. There’s a bunch of men in khaki pants and tucked-in shirts that can’t even carry their own bags a few miles. On the other hand, there is no other sport that demands so much of a player and, more importantly, fans and media.

    There is a huge burden to shoulder as a golf fan. You have to be conscious of when and where you move at all times. Especially, if you are a photographer inside the ropes late on Sunday.

    The photographer failed last Sunday and Tiger didn’t handle it well.

  • Why be an Entrepreneur?

    If you don’t take advantage of yourself, someone else will.

    ~ Jakob Lodwick

  • Awareness

    I walked to the grocery store to buy root-beer and an onion, I realized that while owning an iPhone allows me to better record my observations, it also significantly decreases my observations. I spent the whole walk to the store checking Facebook and Tumblr.

  • Progress and Life

    “To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.”

    ~ Agnes Martin

  • Leap Year Day

    “Happy leap year day!”

    ~ Me.

  • Mania This and Mania That

    Golf Digest’s Jaime Diaz has in interesting proposition: that pre-1997 Tigermania paved the way for the Barack Obamamania we’re experiencing leading up to the 2008 Presidential Election. He writes:

    Obamamania really isn’t all that different from Tigermania pre-1997 Masters. Woods was still mostly promise, although there was a certainty and presence and sense of destiny to the young man, the kind Obama increasingly has demonstrated in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Both manias reflect an America willing to trust its gut more than its head. But tellingly, with Woods there was no second-guessing, and the same seems to be true with Obama.

    Without getting too political here on Yugflog.com, if Obama is elected President, he will have a lot to live up to. Tiger has far exceeded the pre-1997 hype with his incredible on-course success. On top of that his image and influence reach far beyond the course and affect many reaches of life. By default, Obama will have the reach if he were to take office. The tough part would be backing it up with results.

  • When Reality Bites

    David Brooks writes in an article titled, When Reality Bites, that the Democrats are basically screwed on two major issues.

    1. Their proposal for immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
    2. Their conflicting proposals of fiscal discipline and new programs.

    Removing the troops from Iraq would be a huge mistake. Thomas Barnett’s idea of a large peacekeeping force has always made sense to me.

    The only way the Democrat’s domestic spending proposals seems possible is if they take the money that would have been spent on military in Iraq and use it here in the U.S.

    Still, good luck bringing home the troops without messing up the world.

    (via NYT)