Big Shot Bob’s poor choice
A Pittsburgh chicken-wing restaurant has apologized for naming one of its spicy flavors “Black-on-Black Crime.” Matt Cercone, owner of Big Shot Bob’s restaurant, says he has been deluged by “threatening phone calls,” but claims that the wing flavor was named by a loyal, African-American customer. “If I had any idea this would happen, it wouldn’t have gotten on our menu.”
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The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is warning Christians against practicing yoga. Seminary president AlbertMohler called the current U.S. fascination with the ancient Eastern mind-body practice “a symptom of our postmodern spiritual confusion,” saying, “Yoga begins and ends with an understanding of the human body that is, to say the least, at odds with the Christian understanding.”
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