It’s nice to see the media in high dudgeon over this given the tendency to treat domestic violence as male-on-female only, but I have to confess: This didn’t bother me 1/100th as much as it would have if the golf club was wrapped around a woman’s head. Whether that’s because I’m inured to the cartoonish image of the angry wife chasing her husband with a frying pan or because the strength disparity between the genders makes it hard to grasp the danger at a gut level, I don’t know. But let the record show that whatever happened that night outside Tiger’s house, he was hurt bad by it. How bad? This bad:

When Tiger Woods was brought to the Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla., his condition was more serious than previously reported. According to a person with knowledge of Woods’ hospital admission, the star golfer had to be admitted directly to the hospital’s intensive care unit, where he was immediately intubated and his breathing stabilized.

Also, there’s clarification about the police interview with Woods’ neighbors, who called 911. At the time of the 911 call, neighbor Jarius Lavar Adams told dispatchers that Woods was asleep on the lawn, snoring. “Although the body can snore in any state of unconsciousness, it’s unlikely he was snoring,” said the source. “That was the sound of an airway that wasn’t stable. That’s part of the reason there was an intubation when he got to the hospital.”

After Woods underwent treatment, he was extubated, then immediately released home. One physician from the hospital said that discharging a patient directly to his home after being admitted to the ICU was “highly unusual.” The doctor, who did not treat Woods, said standard protocol “usually involves some sort of step-down — if your condition is serious enough to be admitted to ICU, you don’t go straight home. It points to some extreme privacy measures being taken for that decision to be made.”

The director of the National Council Against Domestic Violence told TMZ she’s “horrified” by the skit. Part of the problem here, I think, is that Tiger’s so rich, so powerful, and so, er, smooth that it’s hard to imagine anyone posing a threat to him, let alone his wife. But make up your own mind. Sounds like we may be nearing the end of the road for this horror show anyway.

Update: Oh, one not-so-fun fact that I forgot to mention: The musical guest this week was … Rihanna.