When I was young and the Simpsons were in their prime (Seasons 3-6), they could do no wrong. That was part their fault and part our fault. I laughed at the outsized stereotypes of Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel; Groundskeeper Willie, the angry, drunk Scot; Fat Tony, the Italian mobster; Dr. Hibbert, the token Bill Cosby black guy; and of course, Bumblebee Man, the Mexican soap opera buffoon.
And in spite of myself, I still find a lot of that stuff genuinely funny. The show sometimes, though not always, does a good job of making clear its intent is purely satirical. Some jokes, however, haven't aged well, and by “haven't aged well” I mean “have only recently been understood by white people as being super offensive.” Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the workaholic Kwik-E-Mart shopkeeper, is a case in point.
A recent documentary called “The Problem with Apu” mainstreamed (i.e., raised white people's awareness) the problem with Simpsons character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a reductive moc..

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Patrick Reed took the week off before the Masters, and it paid off beyond the work he did on his game.

He also had time to get his eyes checked.

”First week ever wearing contacts, and I go ahead and make every putt I look at and win a golf tournament,” Reed said.

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Reed said he had been struggling with reading at a distance – specifically the menu guide on his TV – when his wife, Justine, had seen enough. Reed recalled one moment when his wife and her parents could see the words, but everything was blurry to Reed.

”So we went to the eye doctor and next thing you know, I could see up close, but I can’t see anything past about 30, 40 yards,” Reed said Wednesday. ”Everything was really blurry. So I got a prescription for contacts, put them in and all of a sudden I’m just looking out like, `Wow. I can see everything.’

”Now all of a sudden I can read greens pretty well,” he said. ”And it worked at Augusta.”

Reed received the contacts a w..

Here's the list of the 81 teams and 45 individuals to play in the six 2018 NCAA Men's Regional tournaments May 14-16.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Tiger Woods spent three months working toward one week in April.

The Masters has come and gone.

Woods took a small step back at Augusta National when he misfired with his iron play, didn’t break par until the final round and tied for 32nd. He finished 16 shots back, his widest distance from the lead in 19 appearances at the Masters.

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It was a big step forward for Patrick Reed, who slept three hours after winning his first major, woke up at 5 a.m. because he couldn’t sleep and responded to 155 text messages and about 180 emails.

”Every one,” he said with a big smile.

This is no time to rest. Golf shifts into overdrive starting Thursday with the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow, a course that hosted the PGA Championship last summer and boasts enough star players to make it feel like the next best thing to a major.

The Players Championship is the following week. Three major championships, starting with the U.S. Open at Shinnec..

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Rory McIlroy tried everything he could to forget about golf in the days following the Masters.

He binge-watched ”Billions.” He read a couple of books: ”The Chimp Paradox” and ”Essentialism.” And he knocked back a few bottles of wine – ”that sounds really bad; it wasn’t that bad,” McIlroy said with a sheepish grin – before his wife Erica finally had enough and dragged him out of the house.

She told him they needed to go do something – anything. All of that other stuff wasn’t working.

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McIlroy was upset after a final round 74 at Augusta National last month kept him from winning the one major that has eluded the 28-year-old during his exceptional professional career.

”The Masters has become the biggest golf tournament in the world and I’m comfortable saying that,” McIlroy said. ”I don’t care about the U.S. Open or The Open Championship. It is the biggest tournament in the world. It has the most amount of eyeballs, the most amount of hyp..

Breakthrough Golf Technology has produced a putter shaft Barney Adams calls, “a step forward in golf equipment technology.”

Summer is nearly upon us, and that means every idiotic, novelty fashion trend available to the human imagination is about to come spewing out of the proverbial woodwork and into your Twitter feed. This time last year, we were struggling to wrap our heads around the male romper (and, to a lesser extent, swimsuit overalls), and now sartorial hell is back and bolder than ever thanks Carmar Denim's new “extreme cut” “jeans”. Seriously, where's Thanos when you need him?
FacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestFeaturing no front, no back, and no crotch, “extreme cut” jeans are convenient for public restroom emergencies and, to be honest, not much else. But before you, umm, shred Carmar for this Fyre Festival-approved publicity stunt, at least consider the fact you now get to have lunch with your mom while wearing a denim g-sting on top of your regular underwear. Little wins, folks. Little wins.
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How did we miss this? Seriously, how—in an era where TV and movie build-ups have gotten so out of hand that writers consume entire novels just to decode the meaning of a character's tattoo—did we miss this nugget? Forget misconstrued as a red herring; no one even remotely brought this up. And it was right in front of us the entire time.
“It” being this Avengers: Infinity War reveal from star Mark Ruffalo:
https://twitter.com/GMA/status/886662985166471168
Look at Don Cheadle's face! His “The f*** you doing man?” expression deserves its own three-picture MCU deal. As it should be, considering…
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…Ruffalo gave away the film's exact ending. Of course, only a moron believes all the heroes that perished at the hands of Thanos are really gone. Not only is there another Avengers movie in the pipeline, but most of the departed stars have sequels in the works. (And “Black Panther 2: R.I.P. T'Challa” and “Spiderman: Still Dead” would be tough sells.) Still, the..

Reagan, Ventura, Schwarzenegger, Trump, Kid Rock. America's long lineage of bloated celebrity caricatures ascending to the highest echelons of our nation's Great™ leadership welcomed another new member on Tuesday night, when demonic WWE wrestler Kane—Undertaker's disturbed, pyromaniac little brother from 1997 to present—won Knox County, Tennessee's GOP mayoral primary by a narrow margin of 17 votes. He is expected to Tombstone Piledrive his democratic opposition in the general election, because Tennessee.
https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool/status/991039216887980033
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According to local reports, the 7-foot, 300-pound “monstrous abomination”…
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There's something about Quail Hollow that brings out the best in Justin Thomas. In his first appearance at the Wells Fargo Championship in 2015, he tied for seventh, then won the PGA Championship at the Charlotte, N.C. course last August, producing some memorable moments in the process. Yet somehow, his most clutch moment at Quail Hollow may have come on Wednesday during the Wells Fargo pro-am.
With the cameras rolling, it appeared like Thomas was just signing a glove and ball for a couple of fans, but then it quickly turned into a life-changing moment for this couple:
https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/991686838413754368
Who says JT doesn't love the fans? He even initiated the group hug:
https://twitter.com/RexHoggardGC/status/991689275128369152
Great stuff from Thomas, who continues to dominate life. Oh yeah, and congrats to the couple too.
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