Like just about everyone i know, I think Michael Graham is a butthole -- albeit one for whom I have, in the past, shown a certain fondness. I hate his regular Free Times column and miss it as often as possible. I happened to read it this week and found, much to my surprise, that he did a pretty fair job of hanging John Graham Altman out to dry.

There is one cynical sentiment I think most South Carolinians share with Graham, even if they do hate his troglodyte mentality: a deep-seated realization that the Palmetto State is about as ass-backwards as a state can get, and that it's just too late in history to do a thing about it.