On today’s date in 1977, it snowed in Tampa, Florida:
It’s nearly 70 degrees in Tampa today. This has been the warmest winter I can ever remember, and I’m old enough to remember the snow.
Please talk amongst yourselves.
Florida woman, still rocking a punk rock ethos in the 2020s, which is kind of sad. Betty Cracker has been a Balloon Juice writer since 2012.
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On today’s date in 1977, it snowed in Tampa, Florida:
It’s nearly 70 degrees in Tampa today. This has been the warmest winter I can ever remember, and I’m old enough to remember the snow.
Please talk amongst yourselves.
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Can it live up to the excitement of its NFC counterpart? Probably not!
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It’s also beer brewing day here: Behold the wort for the inaugural batch of Double Dog IPA. Go Pack! Go Colts!
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Breaking news via the NYT:
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Gays Nationwide Can Marry
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether all 50 states must allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. The court’s announcement made it likely that it would resolve one of the great civil rights questions of the age before its current term ends in June.
Predictions? Thoughts?
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Sexy old fart Liam Neeson ran afoul of a death merchant in North Carolina by questioning the sanity of being ass-deep in guns:
“There’s too many f—ing guns out there. Especially in America,” [Neeson] remarked. “I think the population is like, 320 million? There’s over 300 million guns. Privately owned, in America. I think it’s a f—ing disgrace. Every week now we’re picking up a newspaper and seeing, ‘Yet another few kids have been killed in schools.’”
Cue the butt-hurt ammosexual squealing:
In a Facebook post, PARA USA said the company now regretted providing firearms to be used in the Taken 3 film.
“While the film itself is entertaining, comments made by its Irish-born star during press junkets reflect a cultural and factual ignorance that undermines support of the Second Amendment and American liberties,” the company said.
“We will no longer provide firearms for use in films starring Liam Neeson and ask that our friends and partners in Hollywood refrain from associating our brand and products with his projects. Further, we encourage our partners and friends in the firearms industry to do the same.”
I’m sure the prop masters for “Taken 14: The Takeout” can just load up at the nearest gun show, no background check required.
Please feel free to discuss whatever.
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This post is in: Domestic Politics, Open Threads, Assholes, General Stupidity
I never read “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” but my kid made me sit through the movie with her. I thought it was an awful film for the most part (and a criminal waste of the brilliant and hilarious Joan Cusack’s time). But there was one line in it that stuck with me because it’s so true: “We accept the love we think we deserve.” Yep.
So when I hear about someone who is romantically involved with an abusive asshole, I don’t understand it, but I try to remember that the person may have a gaping void where their self-respect is supposed to live and other issues I don’t know about. I try to keep in mind that abusers typically don’t come with a “Local Purveyor of Domestic Violence” tattoo on their foreheads, so I try to refrain from judging their hapless partners. But there are exceptions:
George Zimmerman allegedly threw a wine bottle at a woman he was intimately involved with in the incident which led to his arrest for aggravated assault with a weapon Friday night, according to new police reports released Monday…
According to the offense report written by one of the officers who interviewed the woman, she described Zimmerman as a “psychopath.”
Ya think? Sometimes people are just goddamned stupid, end of story.
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Quack! That said, let’s have a good, clean game, fellas. I haven’t followed either team closely, but on paper, they seem pretty damned evenly matched, Vegas be damned.
Both have lost to second-rate teams and come back from that slough of despond to contend on the grandest possible stage. And both are to be congratulated for it.
Of course, being a college ball game, it’s likely one team or the other will get the upper hand early and present us with a blow-out. Who will that be? FUCKIFINO.
One of the beauties of college ball is the emotion that is so inextricably a part of it — the wild card factor that lets a rival with a shortage of marquee players prevail over a superior (on paper!) opponent by dint of guts and pride and opportunism. To paraphrase Rod Tidwell in “Jerry Maguire,” in college ball, they’re all heart, motherfucker!
So let the hoopla begin. And may the best team — this night — win.
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