Tiger Woods Needs Surgery. Again.

Tiger Woods' 19-hole playoff victory at the U.S. Open over Rocco Mediate turned out to be even more dramatic than we knew, not to mention painful. Today Woods announced on his website that he is having season-ending surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left knee, which he injured 10 months ago.

This means that Woods will be out of the British Open, the PGA Championship, and the Ryder Cup, along with any other tournament he deems important enough to play in. Since Woods is the straw that stirs the PGA Tour's drink, so to speak, TV ratings for tournaments will now be rivaling curling.

But there are those who believe Woods had an ulterior motive for taking the rest of the year off. Listening to an afternoon host (who shall remain nameless) on a conservative sports talk station in the Twin Cities, one has to wonder if he was serious when he said that Woods was unpatriotic for not participating in the Ryder Cup as a member of the United States team.

For the record, the American team (with or without Woods) has not won the Ryder Cup since 1999.

These are the same idiots who claim that presidential candidate Barack Obama is really a Muslim, and that fist bump he and his wife Michelle did at the rally in St. Paul was a signal to the terrorists. We've had to listen to this BS ever since 9/11/01 from President Bush and Vice President Cheney on down to their acolytes on Fox News and in talk radio, scaring the country to death and taking away constitutional freedoms.

Tiger Woods' father was a Marine who served in the Vietnam war. His mother came from Thailand. His wife is Scandinavian. In other words, folks, Woods is living the new American dream. And when his knee is healed enough to let him tee off again, even the flag-waving nitwits will be cheering.