This reminds me of the joke that folks in the South can't stomach the idea of a black man making a living smacking around little white balls.

Nah, but kinda funny.

Well, it IS funny.

Reminds me of when Peter Griffin's great-great-great-grandfather invented golf.

Even though its a banned phrase, all I can say is 'meh."

According to some reports, Tiger and Kelly are friends and that he doesn't think there's any reason for anyone to get their panties in a bunch.

This strikes me as something like ADL's recent hubaloo about Will Smith.

I find it very difficult to care about what happens on the Golf Channel. It's those crackers at the Home Shoping Network whose asses I want to kick.

You're just pissed you didn't move fast enough on the cubic zirconium c*ck ring.

Okay, I have to ask because i'm curious, and I know that any discussion of race never goes anywhere good once the name "Al Sharpton" is mentioned. And i'm not saying that she should be drawn and quartered. From everything i've read, she understands what it meant, profusely apologized, didn't mean any harm, and we can move on.

But every time I see it being derided as a "non-issue", I quirk an eyebrow. Like I said, i'm not calling for her head, and maybe it's all the Negro in me, but can we all agree that it was an astonishingly bad choice of words? Or am I part of "The PC Police" now?

That's kind of your platform for everything.

Oh, man. Great videos. I love the salesman collapsing on the ladder. His spine bends backwards like a preztel, but he doesn't miss a beat and keeps going with the sales pitch.

I didn't see it as a non-issue. Bad choice of words, but when the apologies come immediately and Tiger says he knows her (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) and doesn't see a problem, there's not much further to go.

Here's another odd case where tiger popped up. I'm watching CNBC one morning before the NH primary, and John Harwood is talking about how well Obama is doing in the polls. He says something like, "Right now, Obama is playing a terrific game. He's up there operating at a Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods level."

I hear that, and I'm wondering, "Did he pick them only because they are two of the most dominating athletes in their sports, or because they, too, are black?" Maybe people make these subconscious associations even in positive contexts.

Somebody call the PUNisher....

When exactly did lynch become associated with color? Maybe its my Minnesotan upbringing, but I've never thought of a lynching to be specifically aimed at black people, just someone whom the "group" dislikes for whatever reason.

Since the Civil War is my guess. It's a real shame the racists took a perfectly innocent word for brutal vigilante justice and tainted it with racial undertones.

The meaning of verb can't change with context? Then how come when I tell people I'm banging lots of chicks, they don't assume I'm sleeping with poultry?

Why do people not think I'm gay when I say something like, "Christ, that asshole just totally screwed me"?

Why am I not surprised that my refrigerator is running, even though it doesn't have any legs?

I'm not even going to point out that the first example you gave wasn't of a verb...
I find it interesting that you assign a gender specific reference to the word "asshole"
The problem is the act is the same in both ways the verb was used. If I ask one of my friends if we should go get some KFC, and he happens to be black, does that make my question racist somehow? But if I asked a Japanese person the same question it wouldn't be?
As I said in my mind the term "lynch" doesn't conjure pictures of guys in hoods and blacks hanging from trees, but of a mob killing (usually by hanging) someone in an act of vigilantism.

If the term is inherently loaded is the statement :" it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree." inherently considered racist as well?