"Yayy Sweden! Here ve come!"

Ok, so we have been preoccupied with Tiger Woods’ several torrid trysts with ladies of all sorts.

So, we have decided this is the last post, because latest news says Woods is taking a temporary break from Golf.

Good.

Now go buy Elin some flowers. No, Tiger!  Put those pants back on.

Anyhoo – in case you were living under a rock and missed the latest developments on L’affaire Tigre, here’s what has transpired, according to a blog on the San Fransisco Chronicle.

The Huffington Post has it that Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren has purchased a $2 million home in her native Sweden.

But that alleged development has other media outlets assuming she’s leaving Woods.

Now, it’s reported at the same Huff Post that Woods himself is moving to Sweden with Elin Nordegren.

But Campbell Brown and Larry King Live both on CNN reported that Woods and his wife were going to get away on their yacht.

So from all this we can only conclude that Woods and wife are traveling to Sweden on their yacht.

Right. So now you know why this is the last post on Tiger. Good bye and good riddance

Gibbs added that the war was “very, very, very expensive”, costing the U.S $6.7 billion in the month of June alone.

Family of suicide victims are seeking letters of condolences from the White House for their fallen children.

While soldiers who commit suicide do receive the same death benefits as those who die in combat, it has been a policy since at least the Clinton administration not to send presidential letters of condolences.

The families explain that the letters would be an important symbolic gesture from the president and the military that mental health problems are real, and need to be seriously addressed to prevent needless deaths.

McClatchy writer Steven Thomma points out that the Rep. Obey’s war surtax is not without precedent. War surtaxes were levied by President Lincoln during the Civil War, President Roosevelt during World War II and President Johnson during the Vietnam War.

The Obey tax would increase federal income tax by 1% on those making less than $150,000 and significantly more on those making over $150,000 a year.

This Thanksgiving, we hope you remembered that 922 soldiers have died fighting in Afghanistan since Operation Enduring Freedom began in 2001.

Operation Enduring Freedom was the second name, after the President Bush’s first choice, Operation Infinite Justice, sounded too much like a throw back to the crusades.

French Bulldogs - Small, uncute, apartment friendly pooches

Astoria in Queens, New York, is more than just all Greek restaurants and beer gardens.

It is also, according to The New York Times, home to 32 French Bulldogs – one of the most totally non-cute dogs I have ever laid eyes on.

With their narrow hips, rabbit years and large head, writes The Times, the dogs often have to be delivered through a c-section.  But once born, they quickly endear themselves to owners by possessing one awesome New York quality – they are landlord friendly – read small, low on the barking, and can be squeezed into miniscule NYC apartments! We knew dogs were pleasers, but these fellas!

Read the whole piece here.

But as Pakistan continues to be pock marked by suicide bombings on a weekly basis, the country’s pop stars are now changing their tunes; singing no longer of love songs, but having their lyrics reflect Pakistan’s new reality, that includes inflation, unemployment and rising violence.

In some cases, the lyrics are also blatantly anti-American, with one pop group telling The New York Times, the Taliban is more the West’s problem and has a very small part to play in Pakistan! So what are the Pakistani bands tuning out? Check this out.

Retired four-star general Karl Eikenberry, currently serving as U.S Ambassador to Afghanistan, recently sent two private cables to the White House imploring them not to escalate the number of troops on the ground.

Eikenberry warned Obama of President Karzai’s “erratic behavior”, and questioned his ability to root corruption out of his government.

The Ambassador also expressed frustration over the Obama administration’s lack of non-military financial support.

Eikenberry asked the administration to set aside $2.5 billion on non-military development in 2010, but his request has apparently not even been formally addressed yet.

So whenever any of you tout the argument that we should be in Afghanistan, as long as we’re focusing on building up the country, please remember, President Obama does not care about that.

Whether or not we should be spending billions to build a country from scratch is a whole separate debate, but it’s one that the Obama administration probably isn’t even interested in having.

Finally, Eikenberry, who served as commander of U.S forces in Afghanistan from 06-07, and was in charge of the Afghan military training program prior to that, wrote in his cables that sending thousands of new U.S troops would “increase the Afghan government’s dependence on U.S. support at a time when its own security forces should be taking on more responsibility for fighting.”

I hope the media really picks up on this guy, and puts him head to head with McChrystal. They are two different men with two different assignments, but they have equal credibility in this debate.

Just last week, The New York Times announced that they were cutting 100 newsroom positions because they just weren’t making enough money. Readers wrote in that they were willing to pay for digital content if that means that jobs can be saved. Nobel thought indeed, but execution of that warm fuzzy intention can be dodgy!

Matlin writes in his piece that for years, the web has been a freeloader’s paradise. Content was free as websites were supported by ads. As ads dry up due to cutbacks, there’s only so much money sites can make. So if we want Hulu to be the best it can be, we need it to make the most money it can make. And the only way to do that is start charging for its content.

“It’s time we grow up and understand we’re going to have to pay for things we really love once they become successful,” says Matlin. “We’re getting too old to expect to crash on our friends’ couches without paying rent.”

Matlin also points out startups are monetizing earlier, content sites are reinventing their business models by sticking ads in cracks and crevices, and news sites are toying with the idea of pay walls. So the fact that Hulu may start charging for content both legitimizes the site’s business model and provides a test-case for other Internet companies moving away from the ad-supported revenue. “It’s time we grow up and understand we’re going to have to pay for things we really love once they become successful,” says Matlin. “We’re getting too old to expect to crash on our friends’ couches without paying rent.”