Fall From Grace, Public Disgrace, and Tabloid Race.

Recently there have been two high profile persons in the media here in Detroit. One, a national figure and the other a former local public servant. The common thread between them two involves a public fall from grace due to marital infidelity and the inability to face the truth.

Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former Mayor of Detroit has been in Judge David Groaner's courtroom for the past three days this week answering questions from Wayne County Prosecutor Kim Worthy. She was probing his finances because he has not been paying the restitution that the court had ordered in his conviction regarding lying under oath. He was ordered to pay one million dollars as restitution to the city since the original case in which he lied under oath had cost the city over eight million dollars. He is living large in a Texas town with a million dollar job, and yet he claims that he only has six dollars left at the end of each month. He is supposed to be paying over six thousand per month. He has spent over 15 thousand on a new Motorcycle, and six thousand on a boob job for his wife so there is obviously nothing left to pay the city of Detroit.

Kim Worthy is pressing the court to revoke his bond and find him in contempt of court and place him back in jail. He obviously has no intention of paying his restitution.

And then there's Tiger Woods. Apparently he was thrown under the bus by two of his trysts who had it out for one another. One decided to hurt the other by taking the story to the National Enquirer and Tiger, his squeaky clean image and brand, and most importantly his family went up in flames. Never before has any public persona crashed and burned so completely so fast. His meteoric rise to super-stardom has now been eerily paired with a super-sized flameout. His sponsors did not even have the chance to drop him because the television networks pulled all of his advertising voluntarily.

And then just tonight he released a statement that he is taking an indefinite break from professional golf while he concentrates on healing himself and his relationship to his wife and his family.

Two very different people, with very similar problems; lying to themselves and believing the lies! Truly sad in both cases.