Serious golf fans will go on at great length to explain just how much better Tiger Woods is than anyone else in the game. His unique abilities and clutch performances are truly absurd.

Everyone can see it. But only real golf fans and golfers can truly appreciate the historic nature of this moment in sports history.

What Tiger is to golf, Steve Jobs is to consumer products. No one comes close to what Apple is putting out these days. It’s unthinkable to even compare this guy’s performance with that of anyone else out there right now. And those in the consumer electronics and PC game know this better than anyone. They can’t even copy his stuff right. He’s that much better.

Listen. People stand in line to buy his products even though they will be available the next day and the next.

Yes, it’s a team effort. But Jobs is the leader of that team and the Mac, iPod and iPhone are Tiger Woods performances – head and shoulders above anyone else in the game.

That makes concerns about Steve Job’s health all the more concerning for the company. But for now, even on a day when the Apple stock performed worse than expected, it’s worth sitting back, taking a breath and appreciating the greatness of a product guy at his peak.

The last step in China’s preparation for the Olympics ain’t easy. They have a couple weeks to clear the air.

Half of Beijing’s 3.3 million vehicles will be pulled off the roads and many polluting factories will be shuttered. Chemical plants, power stations and foundries left open have to cut emissions by 30 percent — and dust-spewing construction in the capital will be halted.

My homeboy just pulled down an Emmy nomination for the show Damages on FX. The show, along with AMC’s Madmen, just became the first basic cable show in history to get a best drama nomination. Nice.

There are really three key problems with the highly controversial New Yorker Obama cover. And none of those problems are directly connected to the folks at the New Yorker:

1. There are way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way too few Americans who could understand this as satire. Now it’s true that, prior to this controversy, few members of those who couldn’t get the joke actually get the New Yorker anyway. But more of them have seen it now.

By the way, to save space, I dramatically understated the above. My original draft had more than 200 million “ways”.

2. The television media will spend more time on this story, maybe 100X more time, than they will spend on, say, the recent killings in Afghanistan, the mortgage crisis (or even, for that matter, the comparatively more compelling Brett Favre/Green Bay fallout).

3. I am now officially part of the problem stated in #2 above. Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in…

Way, way, way, way back in.

The war in Iraq means very different things for different people. Take for instance a Texas dad who will be in Iraq in a few days:

When Martinez steps off the airplane, he will be in the country that took his only son, a 20-year-old skateboarder and budding graphic artist whose loss is felt every single day of his father’s life.

A brother and sister separated by Nazis during the Holocaust are reunited after 66 years.