U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, left, and his wife, Sharon Malone, attend the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards dinner, September 27, 2014 in Washington, DC. The CBC's annual conference brings together activists, politicians and business leaders to discuss public policy impacting Black communities in America and abroad. (Photo Courtesy of Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)Bravo to Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General, for his role in preserving civil, voting and LGBT rights in this country. He resigned today, but will continue in his position until his successor is confirmed. He reportedly reached his decision over Labor Day while conversing with President Barack Obama.
Boo to the mysterious death of a Staten Island Zoo groundhog. The groundhog died a week after squirming out of the arms of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio at a Groundhog Day event, and a new report suggests there was a coverup. There is but one certain detail, and it is that a groundhog died far too young.
New York Yankees' Derek Jeter celebrates after hitting the game-winning hit at his last at bat during the ninth inning of their game against the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, at Yankees Stadium in New York. (Photo Courtesy of Chris Pedota/The Record/MCT)Bravo to Derek Jeter. The longtime Yankee will play in his last game Sunday but his impact on baseball will resonate for years to come.
Boo to ESPN for suspending Bill Simmons. It is not wrong for columnists to express their opinions when those opinions are positive, and it shouldn’t be if they express opinions that are negative.
Boo-ravo to the United Arab Emirates' first female fighter pilot, Mariam al-Mansouri, and the reaction she got from Fox News, always such a paragon of feminist values. It's incredibly cool that a woman led the strike against militants. That Fox hosts responded with quips about women parking and "boobs on the ground"? Not so much.
Joseph Gordon Levitt and Emma Watson on stage during the 86th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles. (Photo Courtesy of Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/MCT)Bravo to Emma Watson for her incredible speech at the U.N. headquarters in New York. She was as eloquent as she is on screen, and she drew attention around the world to the HeforShe campaign.
Boo to Apple for yielding to complacency. Spending so much time at the top has made the company lazy, resulting in iPhones that bend in your pocket and operating systems that are so bad they need to be recalled.
Bravo to the Navajo Nation receiving $554 million in a settlement with the U.S. government, the largest settlement with an American tribe in U.S. history. The tribe deserves every penny with the U.S. government's mismanagement of Navajo resources.
Boo to the first plague-infected fleas of the season in Flagstaff.
The Phoenix Suns' Eric Bledsoe (2) and the Dallas Mavericks' Samuel Dalembert battle for a rebound at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Saturday, April 12, 2014. (Photo Courtesy of Ron T. Ennis/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT)Boo-ravo to the Phoenix Suns's additions of Zoran Dragic and Eric Bledsoe. While the addition of Goran's younger brother gives Phoenix even more depth at point guard and more twins than anyone in the NBA, the Suns cowered to Bledsoe's demand of a near-max deal.
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