Exactly. Because the right never does anything loony, like comparing Obama to Hitler.

Yes, but the Russian-trained dogs ran back at the Russian tanks because that's where they recognized the food (reward) coming from, and generally had to be shot by the Russians before they could set off their little doggy-backpack explosive charges.

I always imagine Daffy Duck standing in line, pointing to Spartacus and saying "He's Spartacus" and creeping out of line.

Only 5 mil? That's chump change. That doesn't even cover maintenance on orbital lasers, for Christ's sake.

But I've never seen a witch.

That's a good point, but it's not like there aren't a ton of super-villains running around in spandex either (Spider-Man movies notwithstanding). At least some of the heroes have some color coordination. Then you have villains like Electro, the Trapster, or the Wizard who have.... um... incredibly garish costumes.

No, no, I agree with the GP. I live in South Carolina, and there are plenty of hillbillies here.

Don't download movies without paying for them?

Yes, yes, I know, there are far broader implications of the loss of privacy on the interwebs, and so forth.

However, my point still stands. Don't download movies you don't have permission to and this case never would have come up in this manner.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Clearly, Craigslist getting rid of their adult services section removes all such adult services from the rest of the Internet, and in fact, from existence itself.

They don't want to be typecast. That's probably the simplest reason.

Er, Rawl raised some money. Not a lot (for an election)... only about $200,000.

Greene has apparently raised $0. And had no advertisements. Rawl at least had some name recognition.

I'm not saying Rawl should have had a completely guaranteed win. But something in this smells wrong.

Safe Republican seat? Yes and no.

He won his seat in 2004 by around 9%.

Back in December of 2009, he had a 9% lead against a generic Democrat. That's not a huge lead against a completely unnamed opponent. AND there a lot of people here in South Carolina who really like this whole "anti-incumbent" trend. (Enough to make a difference? Probably not. But enough to scare DeMint a bit.)

Alvin Greene ran no advertisements. He didn't attend the Democratic Party Convention in South Carolina. He had practically no name recognition when compared to his opponent, Vic Rawl, who at least was a state legislator. He was able to pay the filing fee for running for the Democratic primary with a personal check (the filing fee is over 10 grand), but he's poor enough to qualify for a public defender for the felony obscenity charge against him. (Also, please note, that the law being used against him is one that is generally only used for people who show bestiality, extremely violent porn, etc., not the simple hetero porn that Greene allegedly showed someone. So that too comes across as a bit hinky.)

According to the FEC, at least through May 19, DeMint had around $3.5 million in cash on hand for this election cycle. Greene has $0.

Now, as to your last question, could this be the Democrats up to something instead of the Republicans up to something? I don't know. But the whole damn thing smells to high heaven.

You could do this, in theory.

And the casino could ban you, in reality. You see, while casinos will ban you if they catch you cheating or card-counting (card counting is not against the law, but casinos will ban you for it) or for doing any activity they don't like. They can do this because casinos are private property, and thus, the owners and/or employees can restrict you from coming in.

Now yes, if you could convince a large enough group of people to continue doing this to the slot machines, over time, the casino would probably lose money on that part of the games. They would still be raking in money on roulette, poker, blackjack, and every other game in the casino.

Second-longest now. A British sniper hit two Al-Qaeda members from around 150 feet further out.