We would sooner impale ourselves on a flaming stake than eat a "Turkey Burger," but God bless Hardee's (a.k.a. Carl's Jr.) for hiring last year's Miss Turkey in an effort to convince us otherwise. In what has to be the best commercial we've seen in some time (above), the lovely Gizem Memic strides
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Is it better to be feared or loved? That depends ... what kind of "love" are we talking about (kidding, kidding)? While we prefer to be feared AND loved, we're happy with New York Magazine's designation of our founding editor as South Carolina's "blogger to fear." This pronouncement appears in
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Cue the bagpipes, people ... it's National Tartan Day! All ye of Scottish descent, represent! (Bannockburn, Bannockburn always up ta no good ...) Our founding editor, not surprisingly, is of "mutt" heritage. A little Scottish, a little Irish, a little English and a whole lot of German. Oh, and
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Prior to last week, we had no idea that Linnea Eckstrom - daughter of South Carolina's "Creepy Comptroller General" Richard Eckstrom even existed. Now we know that in addition to emotionally and financially supporting her mother during the high-profile Eckstrom divorce case - Linnea is also quite
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Wanna have some fun with your nemesis in the Twittersphere? There's a new web site that can help ... It's called TweetForger.com, and it enables you to create fake "Tweets" for anyone with a Twitter account. Take a look ... (Click to enlarge) And here's another example ... (Click to enlarge) Obviously
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This website refuses to pander to anyone ... or to aid pandering politicians of either party. This is a bullsh*t-free corner of the marketplace of ideas, people, where we lock and load each day with facts and figures and dollars and cents - not regurgitated sound bites and invented "issues." When
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Ah, Sarah Palin ... we want you in the presidential race, but you keep making it harder and harder ... for us to justify the already-thin rationalization behind that desire ... err, contention. Seriously, at some point we're going to have to come out and admit that the only reason we're telling people
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Here's "Tommy," a 38-year-old former Starbucks server from Hartsville, S.C. who is currently chasing his professional wrestling dreams while attending dance classes at Coker College. Tommy likes Kenny G, George Michael and Vanilla Ice ... (hey, two outta three ain't bad). His latest status update
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The Palmetto political internets have been burning up this week with copies of a month-old email sent from S.C. Rep. Kevin Ryan (R-Georgetown) to Clemson University student Chandler Hudson, a young Republican activist who apparently stole his heart. And before your creep-o-meters go completely off
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Last Christmas, our founding editor's 20-month-old little girl (she's clearly not a baby anymore) received a lovely toy kitchen set from Fisher Price. She also got a toy vacuum that plays "I'm gonna clean the house today, DO-da! DO-da! I'm gonna vacuum while I play, all the DO-da-DAY!" And trust us
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Since its inception, this website has been outspoken in our support of what we believe to be core functions of government (i.e. cops and courts). In fact, we have consistently argued that our state and local law enforcement agencies should be given pretty much whatever they need in performing their duty
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South Carolina's hottest newsbabe was one of three Palmetto state alums included on Bleacher Report's 2011 NCAA "Hottest Alumni" - a list of the most attractive female graduates of schools that qualified for the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Now ... will the website also be featuring a photo spread
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