A quickie. My newspaper made Wonkette.

Nothing in the KGB's Training Had Prepared Colonel Volkov For the Mystery of American Names

IT person: Usually the email address is just the first initial, then the employee's last name.
Salesguy: Oh, okay...What's John Smith's last name again?

Columbia, South Carolina

via Overheard in the Office, Aug 15, 2006



-- I am supremely confident that this came from just feet away in IT training, since it happens on Tuesday.

-- Bigger question: Who the fuck in this office reads OitO?!

Re-Update

RAW COPY TO EXPIRE IN 87 DAYS!

Don't get excited. That just means rawcopy.org will no longer be under my ownership. The normal address, rawcopy.blogspot.com, will still go on. It's actually better that way, because it lets me better track where my readers are coming from... if there are any still out there.

In the next month or two, I'll start to revive this little senior-thesis-gone-wrong to focus on the upcoming election and the fallout that will surely follow, killing all in its path. :)

Get ready!

early results

At Richland co. Administration building, the failsafes are in:

Lovelace takes Sanford by a slim margin...

Campbell sweeps Bauer by a county mile...

Moore beats willis 15 to 1, my estimate.

This is just the county failsafe votes ONLY. Who knows how the rest of the race is going. Its only 740...
More to come.

Coming out of the shadows

Ok, so school's out, I'm out of school, so what to do with this dusty old blog?

Let's focus now on the absurdities of S.C. politics.

Case in point: Electionmania.com

I can't think of a better reason for Republicans to lose seats all around in the general election (and the June 13 primary) than this tacky, awfully produced, ridiculous Flash animation depicting an elephant with an awful 80s/90s transitional rock theme beating up a RINO (Republican In Name Only).

The theme song really needs to be shot. Along with the redheaded kid pleading for the choice to suck tax dollars away from his public school classmates.

P.S. I can't believe someone didn't snatch up electionmania.com before some backwoods Carolina republican activist did! Wake up, Internet!

Cayce does it again

Today's "Why Leaving South Carolina Seems Like a Good Idea" moment brought to you by Matt Drudge.

So I'm on the Drudge Report, minding my own business, when I see yet another one of that hysterical renegade's links to insignificant but otherwise inflammatory stories. Only this time, it's local.


Winston McCruen, of Brookland-Cayce High School, thinks blacks are inferior to whites, and that it's been proven over and over scientifically and that historical slavery was a 'rational' thing to do.

Someone hand this moron a bouncy ball and put him in a room with four hundred mouse traps, please? Such an idiotic teacher deserves an even more idiotic punishment.

The one good thing to come out of this is WLTX's really funny tagline for the story: Reading, Writing and Race. Good one.

Round up --------------
Reading, Writing and Race [WLTX]

LEED conference

SG has invited leaders from all of USC's student organizations to go on the LEED conference, which is basically a leadership seminar held in the backwoods of South Carolina. Plans include dissecting "How Full is Your Bucket?," a positive energy management book. It even comes with little drop-shaped note cards. Note to self: Metaphor-saturated management and self-help books are the new kitsch.

They're due back today at about 4:30 p.m. Hopefully someone will give me some insight into what they did?

Notes from the underground

A bird in the library told me that Student Government met with either a member of or the entire Faculty Senate recently, and they were still lukewarm about the grade forgiveness program that the old President Justin Williams tried to pass during his administration.

The problem seems to be that one faculty member said that should a student take a class, say Spanish 109, and fail, what would prevent them from going to Spanish 221 and getting that grade instead?

I don't know, the logic didn't sound right to me, either.

The more arguable reason for not outright endorsing the program was on principle, that being that students should put their best in it the first time. Tommy, Ryan & Co. have made it perfectly clear that the program would be for those who had exentuating circumstances that made their grades suffer. Not that that's abuseproof, but it's as close as they could outline.

Still, the operative said that SG expects the Senate will endorse the grade forgiveness program as early as the Fall '06 semester, which means the Class of '07 might be able to retake a few classes before graduating that May. I wish I had that option.