I wish I could claim to have written the article to which Justin links.  The point is so obvious -- that Mr Woods owes us (i.e., everybody but his wife and kids) nothing -- it is sad sign of the times that it needs to be made.  It speaks of an age of voyeurs and massive sense of entitlement.

Yet there is an interesting tension here.  On the one hand, we live in a world where privacy is now apparently a crime, and everyone claims the right to know -- and stand in some  form of relationship -- to everyone else.  Thus, at the grand level, when Woods sleeps around, he has betrayed me -- though bound to me by nothing other than my knowledge of his existence, knowledge which flows only one way in this case.  At a more banal level, everybody feels the need to tell everybody else on some publicly accessible website somewhere every time they go to the supermarket, get referenced on someone else's page, or visit the seaside. Yet surely, if someone is important to you and you are doing something important, they'll know anyway; and if they don;t -- well, maybe they don't really matter to you or you to them.

On the other hand, we live in a world where the anonymity -- or privacy -- of the public sphere as it exists in virtual space, fosters the most malicious and nasty behaviour. That, at least, is the conclusion in this article from Britain's Telegraph. The sense of entitlement that demands a public apology from the likes of Woods is presumably the same one that oils the wheels of the typical blog comment thread and twitter as well.

Privacy is surely a key issue for Christians to reflect on. Basic decency would seem to depend upon understanding exactly what its nature and limits are. 

As for what I'm going to be doing this week and beyond: mind your own business.. If you don't know anyway.....