Apparently Al Gore couldn't Curb his Enthusiasm...

for Larry David's ex-wife. Or at least that is what Star Magazine is reporting. Star "reports" that Gore and Larry David have been having an affair for the past two years.

The folks at What Would Tyler Durden Do? had the best comment on this: When asked for a comment, Bill Clinton nodded proudly.

Help Florence Get Rid of Ed Robinson

As many of you are aware, one of the hotly contested local city council seats in last Tuesday's Democratic primary was in the race for City Council Seat #2. The race for Seat #2 had Pat Gibson-Hye and Spencer Scott trying to knock off long-time City embarrassment Ed Robinson. 1082 votes were cast. Robinson garnered 535. Gibson-Hye took in 314. Spencer Scott got 233. Robinson just did miss winning outright by a handful of votes.

What last Tuesday's election told us, was that the majority of voters (547-535) do not want Robinson re-elected as their city councilman. The BTPC is calling on all good citizens to help get rid of Ed Robinson.

The City of Florence is at a crossroads. In the last city elections, 3 members of city council were up for re-election. The citizens of Florence elected to get rid of all of them, electing a new mayor and two new city council members. This year, with the 4 remaining seats open, we already know that 2 of those seats will be turned over (Billy D's and Bill Bradham's seat, which has Dem Sam Fryer and Republican Glynn Willis looking to replace the retiring Bradham). Councilman Buddy Brand has no opposition and will keep his seat.

Therefore, if we can get rid of Ed Robinson, Florence will have unequivocally charted a new course by replacing all but one of the members of city council in just two years. Robinson is the last link to an era of do-nothing local government that wilfully neglected to address the festering problems Florence has faced for decades.

It's been less than two years since the last turnover on council and in that short amount of time, council has managed to finally address some long, neglected problems over Robinson's objections (hiring badly needed new police officers, securing funding for an desperately needed new fire station to keep your home owner's insurance rates from rising, and starting to tear down abandoned buildings all over town). Mayor Wukela publicly endorsed Gibson-Hye, calling on the voters to bring someone to council who would help work hard to help change Northeast Florence, instead of District 2 being stuck with the same incompetent representation it has had for the last twenty years.

Robinson must go. But to get rid of him, Florence needs your help. Florence needs you to vote and tell your friends and family to vote as well.

Who is eligible to vote? Anyone who lives in District #2 of the City WHO DID NOT VOTE IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY MAY VOTE IN THIS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RUNOFF.

Let us explain something to our Republican friends: If you did not manage to vote last Tuesday, you have a chance to help get rid of Ed Robinson. You will most likely not have such a chance again. Come November, that district is strong enough Democrat that you can't influence the outcome. But right now, you can. You have three options:

1) you can elect not to vote at all again. Bad choice. Florence needs your help. Man up.

2) you can elect to vote in the Republican run-off. Why? Your vote is not really gonna affect the outcome in those races. Haley is going to cruise in the Governor's race. As far as the AG's race, what's it really matter to you? Seriously, is it really going to affect your personal life if it's Wilson or Lord? No it will not, not like city council will.

3) you can vote in the Democratic run-off and kick Ed Robinson to the curb. Just think, you will no longer have to watch Robinson shamelessly and desperately play the race card time and time again. City Council meetings will be cut in time by at least half as there will no longer be the need for council to wait through Ed's rants on every issue. There is no stigma attached to doing this. You will be performing your civic duty admirably and helping move Florence out of the past and into the future. Just think, you can even rib your fellow Republican friends by bragging about how you helped take Robinson down.

Perhaps more to the point, YOUR VOTE MATTERS IN LOCAL ELECTIONS. We know this. Remember the Mayor's one-vote victory? There were only 1082 votes cast in this race a week ago. That turnout for a run-off is likely to be less than half of that. We're talking a few hundred total votes here, people. MAKE A DIFFERENCE. VOTE PAT GIBSON-HYE.

The run-off election is scheduled for next Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010. However, EARLY VOTING STARTED TODAY. What does that mean? It means that if you have to work next Tuesday, you can go ahead and go over to the election commission offices at the DSS building and VOTE NOW.

Do not waste this opportunity. If you do not live in District #2, find the people you know who do and make sure they go out and vote. District 2 of the City of Florence runs all the way from Wilson Road, down Oakland Avenue, to Irby, then to Pamplico Hwy by way of National Cemetery and Irby, down through Pine Forest and over to Howe Springs Road. That's a large swath that touches all kinds of residents. If you really want to replace Ed Robinson, it's going to take Republicans, Democrats, Blacks, Whites, Men, Women, Rich and Poor, coming together in this run-off to announce "enough is enough."

Happy Cheer up Keanu Day!

Johnny's got his own demons...Don't ya, Johnny?

Seems the recent picture of a disheveled Keanu Reeves eating by himself on a park bench sparked world-wide concern for the beloved Johnny Utah. Really...when has Reeves ever been heveled? Anyway, this concern led to the latest viral campaign: Cheer Up Keanu Day.

Today is that day.

So, if any of you happen to run into Johnny f*ckin Utah today, remind him he is an FBI agent, that surfing will change his life and that he needs to get Angelo two of those meatball subs.

Jehovah attempts to send Ohio statute Back to the Future

Unfortunately, all the 1.21 gigawatts did was burn the six-story"King of Kings" statue (aka "Touchdown Jesus") to the ground and start a fire in the adjacent church amphitheater. Sure he may be all-knowing and all-powerful, but apparently, he's no Doc Brown.

The statute has been a readily visible attraction along I-75 since it's erection by the evangelical Solid Rock Church located in Monroe, Ohio. Inexplicably, the Solid Rock Church elected to build the statue out of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, instead of chiseling it out of...you guessed it: solid rock. Too bad. If they were more committed to their name, we'd only have a scorched Jesus.

Hattip Chapman.

McMaster moves on to Plan B today: Prepare to Vulturize!

At 10 am this morning, Nikki "Boom Boom" Haley and Henry "Foghorn Leghorn" McMaster will have a joint press conference at McMaster's Columbia campaign HQ where Henry will apparently proclaim: "I sayuh...sayuh...sayuh...I support this little Indun firecrakah." Either that or he's gonna admit to loofaaing her ala Bill O'Reilly.

In all seriousness, we think this is step one on McMaster's Plan B, which is to position himself to run against US Senator Lindsey Graham in 2012. Think about it, what does endorsing Barrett get Henry? Nothing. Barrett does not appeal to any constituency that Henry can't himself. However, if Nikki wins, then Henry can call in that chit on down the road with a Tea Party favorite, someone that has managed to position herself as anti-establishment (although she's been in office for 3 terms).

What makes this rich in our book, is that typical of most politicians, Henry has spent the last year denouncing "Washington politicians" as "vultures," only to begin putting himself into position to become that which he denounced. Good luck with that Henry.

Denzel halfway to the mythical EGOT award

Hollywood superstar Denzel Washington has almost done it all. The man is a pure actor, which means he doesn't care about awards. Despite that, he's got 3 Golden Globes, 2 Oscars and most importantly has been immortalized for all of time in a Salt -n - Pepa song ("body like Arnold with a Denzel face"). What more could you ask for?

Well...there is one award out there that would top it all. The mythical EGOT award. What's an EGOT? Why it's the legendary status you achieve for winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Perhaps more incredible is who dreamed up the EGOT: Phillip Michael Thomas! That's right, Tubbs from Miami Vice, invented an award he will never achieve.

Apparently, Denzel took one step closer to securing the EGOT Sunday evening when he won a Tony award for his role in Fences. We say "apparently," because come on...who watches the Tonys?

Anyway, now that Denzel has the Oscar and the Tony, the other two are pieces of cake. He can snag his Grammy by doing an audio book. All he's got to do is get Oprah to make whatever that book is one of her bookclub books and he's golden. You telling us Oprah ain't gonna do whatever Denzel wants? Please. That just leaves an Emmy. Easy. Denzel goes on Mad Men for a 4 episode arc as a streetwise Harlem pitchman who the new agency brings in to woo the black demographic, where he and Joan fall in love. Unfortunately, not everyone's sensibilities are liberal enough to take their mixed race status (especially Roger Sterling), leading to a tearful goodbye scene between Joan and Denzel. Emmy, done.

Between winning an EGOT, being in a Salt-n-Pepa song and scoring 3 straight baskets against Ray Allen, we'd say Washington's career will never be rivaled.

When FOXes fight...

There's an old Pee Dee proverb that goes like this: When two foxes fight, put your money on the one that hasn't been in the hen house.

Ok...we made that up. But it was interesting to see the Las Vegas Fox affiliate trash their corporate daddy for the ridiculously retarded interview FOX & Friends conducted with Nevada Republican nominee and batshit crazy person Sharron Angle.

What went wrong? Well...for one, Team Moron referred to Angle as a political novice (which even she had to correct) and Steve "I'm a douche' Doocy said she had been endorsed by Sarah Palin (which she hadn't). Douchey followed that up with a question portraying Angle as being the victim of a plot to mischaracterize her stance on Social Security, which Angle agreed with, by someone championing the idea of a "lockbox" at the same time she pushed for "personalization" of Social Security. If you can't figure out how the hell that is possible, don't feel bad...neither can we.