This week on The Confab: What should we be doing about AIDS? Will more troops in Afghanistan end the war sooner? Unemployment numbers are down. But jobless black folks are still not fairing as well as white job seekers. And much ado about Tiger Woods. Join The Root's deputy editor Terence Samuel as he talks with senior culture writer Teresa Wiltz, senior writer Kai Wright and copy editor Erin Evans.

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* Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

I don't much believe in the cult of celebrity, but sometimes you learn a lot from watching how the rich and famous live their lives.

Questions swirl as to what really caused Woods' accident...