Columbia City Paper

How can I avoid joining al-Qaeda by mistake? 

Don’t be discouraged by the nation’s ballooning unemployment figures.
There are plenty of great jobs out there. You just need to start being
creative about where you look, and open-minded about what kind of jobs
you’re willing to take.

For example, if you’re a physically-fit black man who enjoys acting in
non-sexual wrestling videos, you can earn a quick $125 simply by
visiting Craigslist and answering the ad titled “Black Muscular Males
For Nonsexual Wresting Videos.”

Unemployed sugarbabies in the Southeast United States take note:
Craigslist also features a help wanted ad posted by a self-described
Miami “sugardaddy” who travels Florida and Georgia for work.

At the moment, he’s looking for an Atlanta sugarbaby with whom he can
enjoy dancing, golf, fishing, and jai alai. “Pay is cash for time spent
together. Obviously the more time we see each other, the more pay.”
Obviously.

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„Spring N2 Art” at the Keenan House is a perfect opportunity to spend a
Saturday completely surrounded by many forms of art.  This exhibition
not only provides a unique promotional and public relations opportunity
for working artists and art organizations, but also allows art lover
the chance to chat with the artists while listening to live music. This
group exhibition features Artists Round Table (ART) members, namely JJ
Casey, Sam Compton, Becky Age, Sandra Carr, Ellin Baskin, Carl
Craighead, Benira Sutphin, Sue Shrader, Melissa Crook, Richard Glover,
Tam Hicks, Pat Stone, Brenda Schwarz Miller together with Columbia
College Art Students.

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Two new books look at race in South Carolina

“As a general thing, the Southerner is burdened by his unhappy past; he
doesn’t understand it and he finds it hard to accept. The white
Southerner is further confused by the myth of a splendid past, a myth
woven during the dark decades from 1865 to 1900….According to this
myth, the South was once a complete, perhaps a perfect creation, envied
by the North and out of envy attacked, defeated and crippled. The
trouble with this picture is that it is not so.”
                                                                                                            
– James McBride Dabbs

    In the South, nothing is as revered or as misunderstood as history,
and perhaps nowhere is that more true than in South Carolina. And no
part of our history is as distorted and concealed as the subject of
race.

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While Americans have been distracted in recent weeks by a worsening
economic downturn, Michelle Obama’s toned arms, and ‘Bachelor’ Jason
Mesnick’s apparent inability to choose between identical, fame-hungry,
tanorexic airheads, Iran has been going about its business like its a
separate country or something.

On February 4, Iran launched a satellite into orbit for the first time.

The satellite is called the Omid (pronounced oh-MEED). It means hope —
as in, “I really hope the U.S. doesn’t bomb us just because we launched
a satellite.”

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