As a fan of another ACC school, I would like to properly welcome Louisville into our vortex of football mediocrity.

Strombo did have a show down here on CNN about a year or so ago (I have no idea if it's still on, probably not). So I suppose his uselessness spans the continent at this point.

I saw him on Around the Horn a couple of days ago and on the little chalkboard he always has hanging behind him, he'd written "All my puns are intended." OH WOODY, YOU CARD.

Sigh. HOW ARE THEY FORCING HER TO CHANGE HER LIFE? I see a whole lot of people expressing the belief that this situation is fucked up (it is!) and that the idea that Janay Rice felt compelled to apolgize for anything is fucked up (it is, and actually that bothers me a lot more than her decision to stay with Ray,…

Tell me again specifically how the progressive, feminist media is forcing Janay Rice to do anything?

Who exactly is "going against her wishes"? No one (well, no one on the internet/in the media, at least) is forcing her to do a damn thing. If she wants to stay with her husband, that's obviously her choice. That doesn't mean some people aren't going to find that decision puzzling and sad. ESPECIALLY given the…

You know what a shit raven is, Bubbles? It's like a shit hawk, except it's purple.

Showing concern and compassion for a victim of domestic abuse = treating them as your property.

Most of the North Carolina coast was/is unsuitable for deepwater ports and shipping (except for the Wilmington and Morehead City/Beaufort areas) since the coast itself is mostly barrier islands, and between the islands (the Outer Banks) and the mainland are large sounds that are too shallow for ocean-going ships to go…

With burgers, it's such a fine line, between clever and stupid.

'MERICA.

That's a great website, thanks!

I think the issue with the South in particular is that in many places (especially in the Deep South), there was institutionalized segregation and sub-servience of African-Americans for so long that there are certain attitudes ingrained into especially the older generations about how things "ought" to be, as far as the…

I am from the South but have never had that strong of an accent aside from some very common verbal tics and pronunciations. However, I went to college in Upstate New York and managed to pick up some of the weird Pennsylvanian/Midwestern/New Yorker hybrid pronunciations, such as pronouncing "cards" as "cyaaaards".

I mean what are we supposed to used instead? I've never liked "you guys" that much (especially when it's used to refer to a group comprised solely of females). When I have to address a group at my job, I sometimes say "you folks", which is just as country as "y'all" but with an extra syllable. Saying "you all" just…

For New Orleans, my only guess is it's because both Carolina and Tampa Bay are divisional rivals of the Saints. So, someone there might be interested in what happens. I guess.

I wonder what the Washington Football's chances are to make the playoffs this season?

The ubiquity of "slaw" in North Carolina does not surprise me at all. Not only is it an almost-mandatory barbecue topping, but it's a staple fixin' with fried chicken and is a common topping on "Carolina"-style burgers. There are even strong disagreements from one part of the state to the other about whether "real"…

I'm not saying that the chef doesn't have the prerogative to serve whatever they want with their food. I AM saying that I find it miserable and sad that they make a stink over a common condiment, to the point of throwing out and/or banning paying customers who bring their own, for the sake of defending the notion…

It's kind of infantilizing, isn't it? "Oh, we'll let the children have ketchup, but YOU'RE not a child, are you? <smirk>"