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This afternoon, the Senate confirmed Sri Srinivasan to the staunchly conservative United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans already have a plan to prevent anyone else from being confirmed to this powerful court while Obama is in the White House. Obama pulled this one confirmation off because the Srinivasan nomination […]
Sports-talk radio was abuzz Wednesday morning with some comments that Sergio Garcia, the professional golfer, made about his frequent foil, Tiger Woods.
“We’ll have him ‘round every night,” Garcia said. “We will serve fried chicken.”
The comment came after Garcia was asked if he would invite his rival, with whom he has a frosty relationship, to his house during next month’s U.S. Open. Woods responded to Garcia’s tweets on Twitter: “The comment that was made wasn’t silly. It was wrong, hurtful and clearly inappropriate … I’m confident that there is real regret that the remark was made.” (Garcia offered a textbook nonapology apology.)
Wait. This again?
This black-people-and-fried-chicken thing is really old — it’s not even the first time a professional golfer made a joke about fried chicken and Tiger Woods.
What is it with this stereotype about black people loving fried chicken?
Obama gives major foreign policy speech: President Barack Obama plans to limit the use of U.S. drone strikes and close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Obama also asked the Attorney General to report on how the Department of Justice investigates the media. The report is due by July 12, 2013.
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