First Photos of Tiger Woods's Son

PEOPLE, GOLF ^ | 2-18-09

[STARWISE]

Just 10 days old, Charlie Axel Woods has made his international media debut – with the son of golf champ Tiger Woods appearing on his dad's Web site.

In all, there are five photographs now published on Golf.com of Charlie and the family, who are all shown, in various stages, kissing the new arrival. Even the family dogs get into the picture.

Charlie was born Feb. 8, which prompted his proud father to post on his Web site: "Both Charlie and Elin are doing great and we want to thank everyone for their sincere best wishes and kind thoughts."

Sister Sam Alexis was born in 2007 – and, if these new photos are any indication, isn't shy about showing her love for her new little brother.

Speaking for himself, Sam and wife Elin Nordegren when Charlie arrived, Woods also said, "Elin, Sam and I are very excited for the new baby to arrive, although that's when the real lack of sleep begins."

[Wyatt's Torch]

Honestly, I dismiss his comments on Obama from the inauguration. If you were asked by the president of the United States to speak and are a public figure like he is, what are you going to do? You do it. And you say glowing things. He's always been apolitical but I think this case was unique. BTW, what do you think Tiger would think of Ayn Rand's works?

Speaking of which, there are a few Atlas screen names around here. Of course there is John Galt. I've seen hank reardon, Dagny Taggart, Eddie Willers, Francisco, Owen Kellog and Ragnar Danneskjöld. I read the book 11 years ago when I finished graduate school. I thought, at the time, how prescient Rand was with that book. Even more so now. It is amazing and scary to see it coming to life as we speak.

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[Tired of Taxes]

Come to think of it, I remember seeing those screennames here, but I hadn't read Atlas yet, so I never made the connection. The book had been sitting on my shelf for years before I finally read it only a few weeks ago.

Yes, it's nightmarish how close to reality the story is today. Yesterday, I almost fell over when I heard Glenn Beck talk about a solar panel company that Obama mentioned at the "porkulus" signing. The way it runs its business sounds just like the 20th Century Motor Company, complete with all employees having the same pay scale (no matter what their job description) and all major decisions made by consensus of all company employees. I posted more info here.

If there's a silver lining in this cloud, I guess it's that there's a renewed interest in the book now. Maybe it will bring us all together.

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