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Let’s not open Here’s the problem: In your sense of so who cares who runs against him? Pandora’s box, America, we beg you. An the word, “redneck” means a working class At least this way it’ll be entertaining to occasional cowbell at football games, Joe, whose neck gets red from working in watch. DeMint is morbidly fascinating clappers, whatever. But, please not the the sun. Many white Americans, however, and cringe-worthy enough during live vuvuzela. Let’s nip this in the bud before consider it a pejorative term, similar to debates; imagine him paired with Alvin “free vuvuzela” night rears its ugly head “hayseed” or “cracker,” used to imply Greene! Put Glenn Beck and Ed Begley at Turner Field, or God forbid, Williams poverty, ignorance, uncouthness and Jr. on a panel to moderate it and the whole Brice. sometimes even bigotry. Some historians country will tune in. Columbia City Paper argue that the term was more officially Thank you, journalism gods! co-opted in the West Virginia coal wars in Columbia City Paper Dear Jake Knotts, the early part of the century, during which We don’t want to harp on your recent pro-union miners wore red bandanas to Dear sports fans, slip of the tongue. But, the whole mess signify their solidarity. In an anti-union Remember two weeks ago when the has kinda gone into phase two after state like ours, some folks might think word “vuvuzela” was virtually unknown you took your time at the State House you just proudly aligned yourself with to the Western world? It was a simpler podium during a crucial budget vote to pro-union commies. Thus, we urge you to time, an innocent time to which we call yourself a proud redneck instead call a televised press conference to clarify may never return. For those of you who of focusing that time on your actual job if you are using the term in a “white haven’t heard the tragic news, the Florida as a legislator. (What type of political trash” or “pro-union man” sense of the Marlins hosted a vuvuzela promo night handler, professional or otherwise, could word and then either apologize to your in the precious sanctity of a major league have possibly allowed you to pour that Caucasian constituents or our state’s anti- union corporate overlords, whichever the baseball park last weekend. It was a can of kerosene on the fire?) Sure, you case may be. game –for those unfortunate enough to were correct in asserting that the GOP Columbia City Paper 4 June 24,, 2010 Alvin Greene answered his home Greene a “plant.” Lindsey Graham echoed served in the air force and the army. He The TV man did not introduce him- phone when I called and we casually set Clyburn’s calls for an FBI investigation. claims that he was involuntarily, but hon- self and spoke in a gruff tone. up a time to meet. A few days later, the But, on the day before my visit, the orably, discharged from the military and “I was just wondering you know –I 32-year-old candidate regarded me from state party had decided not to overturn the refuses to say more about the issue. He see you’re eating lunch,” he said. “I know a puffy chair in the corner of his father’s results of the election, making Greene, earned a Political Science degree from you said that you didn’t really want to do home, which served as headquarters for Sen. Jim DeMint’s official opponent this USC. I was asking him about classes he TV interviews, but, uh, I was just down his Zen-like campaign for the U.S. Senate. fall. The state party still hopes Greene remembered when a knock sounded at here trying to get a feel of who you were. On the table by the chair sat toenail clip- will step down. When asked if Greene the door. And so many people have a preconceived pers, a disposable razor and a Sonic fast had a chance against DeMint, Kiana Page, Greene laid down his Sonic wrapper notion of who you are just because of the food bag. the party spokesperson said, “This race and got up. “Here’s the umm,” he fumbled charges and everything.” “Lately it’s been very busy,” Greene proves that anything can happen in poli- a moment and nodded toward the door. “... The charges are, of course, the felony said of his life as he took a bite from his tics. Especially in .” Manning Times Reporter. Here’s someone charges pending against Greene for alleg- sandwich. “I didn’t expect so much so Greene knows that as well as anyone from the Manning Times.” edly showing pornography to a college soon.” and has a simple answer to the question “So you were just telling me about freshman and asking her if she wanted Greene is unemployed. He said that of who he is. “I’m the best candidate in your own education and about studying to go back to her room. It is something before the election he spent much of his the Senate race in South political science when he knocked on the else Greene refuses to talk about. But it time watching television. The news was Carolina,” he says. door,” I said. is clearly one of the main reasons why no on the whole time we talked. I asked him if his non-campaign As if on cue, there was another knock. prominent Democrats have reached out to Greene managed to pay the $10,000 campaign was an intentional strategy to “Who is it?” Greene hollered. help him. filing fee to the State Democratic party, attack the anti-government senator. He “It’s WIS.” “I’m really not interested in that now,” but no one noticed him until he inexpli- just smiled and took a bite of his sandwich “I told them not to come,” he said, Greene said to the TV man. “Maybe in a cably beat his opponent, , by and looked at the TV. I asked what he was as if to himself. “OK! All right. Just open week or two you can check back.” a large margin in the Democratic pri- going to say to DeMint. the door.” The phone rang. mary. Now, everybody wants to figure out “Well, I’m planning for a September The Manning Times reporter got up to “Well you know it’s just kind of hard what happened and who the heck Alvin debate. One hour long on a major televi- open the door. for me to get to Manning from Columbia Greene actually is. As was widely report- sion channel.” “Seems like your life’s gone crazy,” I every day,” the TV man said, obviously ed, Rawl challenged the results, claiming “If he refuses to debate, what would said to Greene. annoyed. that the voting machines were faulty. that say about him?” I asked. “It has.” Greene ignored him and picked up the South Carolina bought them used from “It says that he doesn’t care about It was clear at that moment that phone. “Hello? ...OK.” He hung up. Louisiana when that state outlawed them. the people of South Carolina or their Greene had absolutely no control over “So I was just hoping we could go Rawl collected anecdotal evidence but concerns,” Greene answered. “He and what was happening to him. It was almost ahead and knock it out today if that’s pos- eventually acknowledged there was no other representatives are responsible and like a sci-fi movie where an ordinary guy sible,” the TV man said, seemingly oblivi- good way to prove the errors he claimed accountable for the dire situations we was sucked through the screen into the ous to we print reporters who were in the had skewed the results. face here in South Carolina and across the hyper-reality of the televised universe. , the majority Whip country.” He seemed to be struggling to find his Alvin Greene continued on page 4 June 24, 2010 and Greene’s own representative, called Greene grew up in Manning and bearings. 3 Alvin Greene continued from page 3 middle of an interview. “You just step right outside. It’ll be real quick.” “OK. Let me finish these and then I’ll think about it,” he said. “All right. I’ll just be right outside in the Channel Ten Jeep.” The TV man walked out, shaking his head. WIS subsequently wrote on their website on June 19 that Greene had agreed to do an interview and backed out, even though, at least to me, it seemed like he had repeatedly told the reporter he did not want to talk. Greene said it was like this every day now. He did not have a computer, a cell phone or even Caller ID. He answered every call blindly. He said that he was in the process of organizing a campaign and building a website, but at the moment, he needed a press secretary more than any- thing else. “So you were talking about your political science classes,” I continued. “Way back then were you thinking of running?” “Yes. I took a course in black politics. And the professor was Kenneth Whitby,” he said. “But I’ve followed politics since I was a child, so I always knew that run- ning for office was always in the back of Greene talks with the media on his land line phone. Photo: Baynard Woods. my mind.” He took the last bite of lunch, crum- ones.” knocking. view?” the TV man asked. bled the wrapper and put it in the bag. “Your opponent, I guess, would ask “All right,” the TV man said, “you “No.” “As a soldier serving in Korea two where that money is going to come from?” want to do it inside or outside? We have The TV man seemed angry. His voice years ago I knew that this country was “Well, we spend two times more of a light on the camera if you want to do got louder and he said Greene would look declining and I knew if I got a chance our taxpayer dollars on inmates than on it inside. Like I said, it will just take two bad. “That’s not a threat,” he said. “It’s I would make things better,” he said. students,” he said. “Non-violent offenders quick minutes.” just the way it is.” “That’s my campaign: Bringing America should be offered pretrial intervention. “What are you going to ask again?” Finally, they left. Greene had just Back.” Justice in the justice system is important. “Now that all of the late night come- fought another battle in the attempt to The phone rang again. It takes so much money a day to keep dians have made their jokes and protests maintain control of his life and be a can- “Hello? ....Who’s calling?” He lis- someone incarcerated. Fairness saves have been done, how do you plan to get didate. He insisted that he campaigned tened for a little while. “OK. Can you money. It’s another example of how our your campaign rolling?” the TV man in the primary—he just didn’t use the get back with me in a week or two? I’m incumbent Republican— ” asked. “A lot of people there still don’t media to do it. He’s trying to maintain that busy.” The phone rang. seem to be taking you seriously. How do unlikely model. As a result, everyone wonders if Alvin Greene is crazy. Perhaps, the only “Perhaps, the only really crazy thing about him is that he believed really crazy thing about him is that he an ordinary citizen with no organization could run for enate and believed an ordinary citizen with no orga- S nization could run for Senate and win win without getting sucked into the media machine.” without getting sucked into the media He hung up and turned back to me. machine. He seems to believe he can con- “What is your campaign strategy “Hello?” I could tell from Greene’s you plan to get people to take you seri- trol what he wants to talk about and leave other than the debate?” I asked. side of the conversation that it was a ously?” major questions unanswered. He is living “The issues, my message. Jobs. See Sunday talk show wanting him to go on. “I told you over the phone that I in another century. I have a plan for jobs. Even picking back To the person on the other end of the line, wasn’t doing this,” Greene said. But, so far, Alvin Greene’s crazy idea up with the Department of Transportation he said, “That’s church time mainly right “Two questions, that’s it.” has not been so crazy. At least he won in projects put on hold after 9/11. Such as there in the middle of the day.” Then he “No.” the primary. “I wasn’t that surprised,” he Interstate 74 from Michigan to Myrtle hung up. “Ok. So why not?” said. “I expected to win. I worked hard. It Beach. Widening of other major highways He turned back to me. “I just… I just don’t like the questions wasn’t a big deal.” across the state, especially the evacua- “When I say my opponent is revers- and I don’t like— ” But now it is a big deal and the media tion routes from the coast. And those will ing forward progress, I’m not being sar- The phone rang. Greene answered it. are trying to suck Greene into their orbit. create jobs in the short term and the long castic. It’s green jobs and it’s better for WIS kept talking. In the television world, he seems like a term.” the economy and the environment. That’s “You’re going to have to get used to lost alien, inhabiting a universe whose The phone rang. advancing society that I’m for and our it,” the TV man said. “I mean I’ve been laws he doesn’t comprehend. Maybe he “Hello? ...Where you at? ...Hello?” two current United States senators are covering politics for years.” could start to get a handle on it, if only he He hung up. “Yes. And better PTAs, bet- against that. They’re trying to repeal “Yes,” Greene said into the receiver. could get someone to answer the phone. ter facilities for better education. Fixing Health Care.” “All right I’m busy now. I have folks over “Hello,” he said as I said goodbye. dilapidated schools and building new As the Manning reporter got up to here. All right.” He hung up. leave, the WIS crew burst in without “So you don’t want to do the inter- [email protected] 4 June 24,, 2010 Election results Runoffs: The Russian roulette of politics

By Wes Wolfe

You can’t usually accurately predict the outcome of a primary runoff, you can only hope to. In 2008, Sheri Few – the school choice advocate and evangelical fundamentalist – was clobbered in the Republican primary runoff for State House District 79 by David Herndon. This is despite the fact she had a lot more money than Herndon and bested him by a significant amount on Primary Day. You never know. There were some favorites going Because of some negative media attention into the primary runoffs this year. Rep. Nikki Haley won the GOP nomination over Nikki Haley was expected to win the Rep. J. Gresham Barrett on Tuesday, June 22 GOP nomination for governor, which she did with 61 percent of the vote with nomination in State House District 38. 97 percent of the precincts reporting. There was much rejoicing. Solicitor Trey Gowdy laid the hurt Here in Richland County, the on U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis in the Fourth Democratic establishment got behind John Congressional District, beating him 71- Meadors for the solicitor runoff against 29. As was pointed out by a tweet from Dan Johnson. The media has investigated former S.C. Wyeth Ruthven, stories about alleged scandalous activity even Gary Condit got 36 percent after the involving Johnson, but he beat that back Chandra Levy scandal broke. Rep. Tim and the establishment politicos to take the Scott took the First Congressional District job, 57-43 with 97 percent reporting. GOP nomination over Paul Thurmond, But looking back over the runoff 68-32. results, a trope that was building But as this paper went to press, there finally crested. A lot of Palmetto State were some upsets. Outgoing U.S. Rep. Republicans are crowing that they Henry Brown decided to run for Berkeley nominated minorities for two major County supervisor, finding himself in a offices (Haley, Scott) and a woman for runoff against incumbent Supervisor Dan governor (Haley). Here’s the problem Davis. That was a mistake, and Brown with that: if your skin is darker than the came out on the short end, losing as average Caucasian, you’re probably Davis took 56 percent of the vote. Rep. going to vote for Democrats. If you’re a Joey Millwood, often criticized by this woman, you’re probably going to vote writer as one of two of the most brain- for Democrats. Dems are more likely to dead members of the General Assembly, nominate both women and minorities to saw his time in the House limited to one higher office. It’s true that Republicans term as he was bested by former Landrum are more likely to be both white and male. mayor Doug Brannon for the Republican So, if you’re a member of a party that’s had diversity issues since the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, it might be a good idea to push minority and female candidates and just let it be. As is said when a player scores a touchdown, act like you’ve been there before. By overly celebrating, it just brings more attention to the fact the opposition party has been dominating among traditionally disenfranchised voters for the past 50 years. Wolfe is the proprietor of WolfeReports.com and has written for 11 publications in five states.

Despite some negative media attention Dan [email protected] Johnson won the solicitor runoff over John Meadors June 24 2010 5 By T. Christian Miller, ProPublica scandal, depicted as cowboys, wastrels or anything.” In response, the Defense Department has worse. Some families of civilian contractors become more active in trying to prevent REDDING, Calif. — Wade Dill does No agency tracks how many civilian who have committed suicide have tried suicide than its hired contractors, military not figure into the toll of war dead. An workers have killed themselves after to battle for help through an outdated experts said. exterminator, Dill took a job in Iraq for a returning from the war zones. A small study government system designed to provide The military is “aggressively trying company contracted to do pest control on in 2007 found that 24 percent of contract health insurance and death benefits to to reach people and do intervention military bases. There, he found himself employees from DynCorp, a defense civilian contractors injured or killed on the beforehand and set up suicide awareness killing disease-carrying flies and rabid contractor, showed signs of depression or job. programs,” said Ian de Planque, a benefits dogs, dodging mortars and huddling in post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, Under the system, required by a law expert at the American Legion, the nation’s bomb shelters. after returning home. The figure is roughly known as the Defense Base Act, defense largest veterans group. “Awareness of it has Dill, a Marine Corps veteran, was a equivalent to those found in studies of firms must purchase workers’ compensation increased. I don’t know that it’s transferred different man when he came back for visits returning soldiers. insurance for their employees in war zones. over to the civilian sector at this point.” here, his family said: moody, isolated, If the pattern holds true on a broad It is highly specialized and expensive Birgitt Eysselinck has spent years morose. He screamed at his wife and scale, thousands of such workers may insurance, dominated by the troubled giant trying to prove that her husband’s death daughter. His weight dropped. Dark circles be suffering from mental trauma, said AIG and a handful of other companies. The in Iraq was related to stress from his job haunted his dark brown eyes. Paul Brand, the CEO of Mission Critical cost of it is paid by taxpayers as part of the with a company specializing in the removal Three weeks after he returned home for Psychological Services, a firm that provides contract price. of land mines and explosive ordnance. So good, Dill booked a room in an anonymous counseling to war zone civilians. More than But the law, which is designed to far, courts have sided with the insurance three-story motel alongside Interstate 5. 200,000 civilians work in Afghanistan and provide coverage for accidental death and firm, Chicago-based CNA, in denying There, on July 16, 2006, he shot himself in Iraq, according to the most recent figures. injury, blocks payment of death benefits in Eysselinck’s claim. (CNA declined to the head with a 9 mm handgun. He left a “There are many people falling through the case of almost all suicides. Cases linked comment, citing privacy reasons.) suicide note for his wife and a picture for the cracks, and there are few mechanisms to mental incapacity are the lone exception, Eysselinck, 44, said that neither federal his daughter, then 16. The caption read: “I in place to support these individuals,’’ said judges have ruled. judges nor insurance adjusters understand did exist and I loved you.’’ Brand, who conducted the study while A joint investigation last year by that civilian contractors face many of the More than three years later, Dill’s working at DynCorp.”There’s a moral ProPublica, ABC News and the Los Angeles same risks in Iraq and Afghanistan that loved ones are still reeling, their pain obligation that’s being overlooked. Can Times revealed that contract workers must soldiers do. Her husband, Tim Eysselinck, compounded by a drawn-out battle with the government really send people to a frequently battle carriers for basic medical endured mortar attacks and frequently an insurance company over death benefits war zone and neglect their responsibility coverage. While Congress has promised traveled across Iraq’s dangerous highways, from the suicide. Barb Dill, 47, nearly lost to attend to their emotional needs after the reforms, there has been no discussion of she said. the family’s home to foreclosure. “We’re fact?” changing the law when it comes to suicides “There is a huge percentage of circling the drain,” she said. The survivors of civilians who have involving civilian defense workers. contractors who are silently suffering,” While suicide among soldiers has committed suicide have found themselves The military, by contrast, allows Eysselinck said. “That obviously puts them been a focus of Congress and the public, confused, frustrated and alone in their grief. survivors to receive benefits in cases in and their families at risk. Communities are relatively little attention has been paid to “If I was in the military, I’d at least which a soldier’s suicide can be linked to bearing the brunt of this, especially the the mental health of tens of thousands of have someone to talk to,” said Melissa depression caused by battlefield stress. families.” civilian contractors returning from Iraq and Finkenbinder, 42, whose husband, Hundreds of soldiers have committed Wade Dill was working at a local pest Afghanistan. When they make the news at Kert, a mechanic, killed himself after suicide since the war in Afghanistan began control company when he decided to take all, contractors are usually in the middle of returning from Iraq. “Contractors don’t in 2001, according to studies by the Army a job with KBR in Iraq in late 2004. The 6 June 24, 2010 have anything. Their families don’t have and the Department of Veterans Affairs. money was good – almost $11,000 a month for handling extermination and hazardous He ripped the wiring out of appliances, “Shouldn’t our government be pattern of increasing erratic behaviors material disposal, more than double his smashed mirrors and poured lighter fluid responsible for the companies they hire?” that culminated in suicide,” wrote Charles normal salary. on their furniture. Dill said. “Shouldn’t our government take Seaman, an expert in PTSD. “He said this was our opportunity,” After a few weeks, Wade took a room at care of its own people, who are doing jobs A Labor Department examiner Barb Dill said. “He could start a college a local motel. On July 15, he asked Barb to our government, ultimately, wanted them to recommended that AIG pay the claim, fund for our daughter, pay off the mortgage come see him. Their conversation spiraled do?” but the company refused. AIG and KBR and have a nice retirement. He told me into a confrontation. Frightened and angry, Survivors of civilian contractors whose declined comment about the case. In court at his age, 41, he didn’t know if he had Barb sped off in her car. The next day, the death is related to their work in Iraq have filings, AIG has argued that the Defense enough years left in him to give us what he Shasta County coroner’s office called to tell the right to apply for compensation benefits Base Act does not cover suicides. wanted.” her that Wade’s body had been found in the that pay up to $63,000 a year for life. AIG attorneys also have said that Wade started that December, working room. Dill applied, asserting that her Wade Dill’s actions were related to marital on bases in central and northern Iraq. “He told me that he was sick and husband’s PTSD made him an exception to and family problems. A psychiatrist Violence was ever present. A base near needed help,” Dill said. “I told him to get the rule against payments in suicide cases. hired by AIG testified at a hearing in San Mosul was shelled frequently. He told help and then we would talk. The last time I Her claim was denied by AIG, KBR’s Francisco in January that he had performed Barb that a mortar landed close enough to saw him was in my rearview mirror.” insurance provider. a “psychological autopsy” on Wade Dill temporarily deafen him. Once, he called her Dill soon found herself in financial She protested, sending her claim into a based on interviews with his family and court documents. The psychiatrist, Andrew D. Whyman, “There are many people falling through the cracks and there are said his evaluation led him to conclude that Dill suffered from depression and that his few mechanisms in place to support these individuals.” suicide was unrelated to the violence he witnessed in Iraq. sobbing. difficulty. Her husband had always taken dispute resolution system run by the Labor “Take out the Iraq experience, (the “My husband never cried, ever,” she care of the bills. He had spent lavishly with Department. Her case is still grinding its suicide) would have happened,” Whyman said. “Marines don’t cry. A young man, his higher salary, buying two BMWs during way through the system, which can take testified. “He had a choice. … He could a soldier, had put a pistol to his head and trips home. Now, Dill discovered the couple years to produce a final result. have chosen not to do that.” blown his brains out. And Wade had to go was $300,000 in debt on their mortgage and Experts hired by the family and the Barb Dill insists her husband came in and clean up after they removed the body car loans. insurance company differed on what led to back from Iraq a changed man. – he had to clean up brain matter and blood. She plunged into depression, struggling Wade Dill’s suicide. “No matter how strained our It really upset him.” to cope with her daughter’s grief and the A psychiatrist hired by her attorney relationship could get at times, we always Barb Dill noticed a change in her sense that she had failed her husband in found that job stress in Iraq was one of the pulled out of it with no problem,” Dill said. husband when he returned home for a visit his time of need. She sold the cars and factors that drove Wade to suicide: “The “Iraq changed all that.” bottom line is that the combination of Now, she said, she is trying to hold her physical separation and work-related stress life together. A final decision in her case is resulted in increasingly emotional distance, not expected for months. greater distortion of the relationship, “We’re just slowly sinking,” she said. increasing emotional intensity, and a “It’s hard to be strong. 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june 24, 2010 11 The Get Wets get wet at The Whig By day, 28 year-old Mike Lee roams the depths of the Thomas Cooper Library as circulation supervisor at the University of South Carolina. He’s worked at the Coop for almost four years so it’s no surprise that when the sun goes down the Cola Town resident finds a quiet bottom floor study room and transforms into his alter-ego Jim Stark, frontman of the Get Wets, perpetuator of the rhythm and booze and former host of WUSC’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio from 2002-2007. It always seems to be a party for the guy in the short shorts, white tee, Gilligan hat and eerie 60’s surfer movie inspired lupine laugh end-capped with a boisterous and elongated “WIPE OUT!” Last weekend Stark brought out his band, The Get Wets, equipped with drinking and dancing shoes for a late night performance at the Whig. Kicking things off that evening was The Mondellos from Atlanta. As the ABC news station slaved away just overhead Stark enjoyed a Pabst while pulling nails from his tambourine (the jangle frisbee) commenting that he should have probably taken care of those chores at any other time besides now. Below left: Artie Mondello of the Mondellos. Below middle: Scotty Tempo and Amy Long Caffee take a break on the steps outside the Whig. Below right: Anna Howard watches the Mondellos as Stark encourages the party. -SEAN RAYFORD movie times Movie times 6:25 7:15 9:10 10:00 Prince of Persia: The Benjamín Espósito listed are for the The Karate Kid (2010) Sands of Time (PG- (Ricardo Darín) as he weekend of June (PG) 13) pens a biographical 25. please confirm 12:30 2:00 3:35 5:05 6:50 9:35 novel about the with theater or visit 6:40 8:15 9:45 Shrek Forever After unsolved case of a columbiacitypaper. Get Him to the Greek (PG) young newlywed’s com for the latest. (R) 11:50am 2:10 4:30 brutal rape and 12:45 1:50 3:25 4:35 Iron Man 2 (PG-13) murder years ago. Regal Columbia 6:20 7:20 9:00 10:00 4:10 7:05 10:05 Past and present Cinema 7 Splice (R) intertwine for Espósito 3400 Forest Drive 1:30 4:20 7:10 9:50 Regal Columbiana and colleague Irene With all of the remakes that are descending both methods that the audience might expect to Suite 3000, Columbia, Just Wright (PG) Grande Stadium 14 Menéndez Hastings down upon us, I try to see the original versions see mixed in with some very unorthodox ones. SC 29204 1:55 4:15 7:00 9:35 1250 Bower Pkwy, (Soledad Villamil) in before I see what present day Hollywood has to We also see Dre’s relationship with Mei Ying Letters to Juliet (PG) Columbia, SC 29212 director Juan José offer. Unfortunately I am not always able to. I develop and blossom into something more than Grown Ups new! (PG- 1:10 4:00 6:45 9:20 Campanella’s Oscar- am actually quite disappointed this time more just friends. Mr. Han’s past is also revealed 13, No Passes) The Losers (PG-13) Grown Ups new! (PG- winning character than others that I was not able to see the initial and he connects with his pupil on a level that 11:30am 2:00 4:30 1:40 4:45 7:10 9:40 13, No Passes) study in which justice, film to this remake. I know, I know, just like even he did not expect to. Of course the story 7:10 9:40 Oceans (G) 11:45am 12:30 2:15 pain and love collide. not seeing other movies such as The Godfather builds to the most exciting part of the film, the The A-Team (PG-13) 2:10 4:25 6:50 9:05 2:55 4:45 5:30 7:15 franchise and Scarface, not seeing the original tournament. Everything he has learned and more 11:25am 2:10 5:00 Death at a Funeral 8:00 9:40 10:25 JUNE 25-JULY 1, three or at least the very first Karate Kid is seen is on full display as Dre attempts to overcome his 7:40 10:20 (R) 12:10am Friday-Thursday as a mortal sin in the world of classic movies. fear of not just being able to defend himself but Get Him to the Greek 1:20 3:50 6:35 9:30 Knight and Day new! Friday, June 25 - 3:00, But I promise I will get to it and much sooner also adjusting to his new life and giving a man (R) Alice in Wonderland (PG-13) 5:30 and 8:00 rather than later now that I’ve seen the revamp. with past demons a second chance at his own. 11:40am 2:20 4:50 in Disney Digital 3D 11:40am 12:40 2:10 Saturday, June 26 - Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) is uprooted from The Karate Kid is a true all around crowd 7:50 10:25 (PG) 3:10 4:40 5:40 7:20 3:00, 5:30 and 8:00 his life in Detroit and forced to move halfway pleaser. It has kids being kids including the Splice (R) Disney Digital 3D 8:10 9:50 10:45 Sunday, June 27 - around the globe to Beijing, China because of his funny things that they say, pop-and-lock 12:00 2:30 5:10 8:00 Showtimes More Info 12:20am 3:00, 5:30 and 8:00 mother’s, Sherry (Taraji P. Henson) job. Culture dancing and practical jokes. It shows the 10:30 1:35 5:15 8:45 Jonah Hex new! (PG- Monday, June 28 - shock would be an understatement here, simply difficult transgression that one would go Prince of Persia: The Avatar in Digital 3D 13) 5:30 and 8:00 moving to another neighborhood even takes through, especially a child, being torn away Sands of Time (PG- (PG-13) 12:00 2:35 5:05 7:45 Tuesday, June 29 - some kind of adjustment but moving to another from everything they once knew and introduced 13) Digital 3D Showtimes 10:15 5:30 and 8:00 continent in another hemisphere altogether has into an entirely new life. It has romance and 11:20am 1:50 4:40 More Info Toy Story 3 new! (G) Wednesday, June 30 - got to be far from easy. Right off the bat, Dre friendship and insight into Chinese culture and 7:10 9:50 1:25 5:00 8:30 11:50am 1:20 2:20 3:00, 5:30 and 8:00 meets a young girl named Mei Ying (Wen Wen of course it has the stunt fighting and action that Letters to Juliet (PG) 3:50 4:50 6:30 7:30 Thursday, July 1 - Han) who is an aspiring violinist and finds is expected of it. One controversy that it did 11:15am 1:40 4:10 AMC Dutch Square 9:00 10:00 11:30 5:30 and 8:00 himself smitten with her. He tries to talk to spark was the fact that it is titled The Karate Kid, 7:00 9:40 14 Toy Story 3 in Disney 937 Main Street her and she takes an interest back but another respectively after its predecessors, but features Iron Man 2 (PG-13) 800 Bush River Rd., Digital 3D new! (G) kid, Cheng (Zhenwei Wang), witnesses their the kung fu style of martial art fighting. Karate 12:10 4:20 7:20 10:10 Columbia, SC 29210 Showtimes More Info THE BIG MO friendly interaction and decides to step in. Step is in relation to Japanese culture whereas kung 11:20am 12:20 1:50 MONETTA DRIVE- in is putting it mildly, him and his “crew” fu is to Chinese. It is titled The Kung Fu Kid in Carmike Wynnsong Grown Ups new! (PG- 2:50 4:20 5:20 7:00 IN immediately pressure Dre into a fight which ends Asian countries and only called its original name 10 13, No Passes) 8:05 9:30 10:30 5822 Columbia with him laying face down on the ground. After in America. 5320 Forest Drive, 10:10am 11:20am 12:00am Highway North, M trying to cover up his black eye with makeup for Jaden Smith seems to be a natural after only Columbia, SC 29206 12:45 1:55 3:20 4:35 Killers (PG-13) onetta SC 29105 school the next day, he runs into the same kid a couple of films on his resume. He trained with 5:55 7:15 8:30 9:50 11:40am 2:30 4:55 LESS THAN AN during lunch but this showdown is cancelled due the films fight and stunt coordinator, Wu Gang, Knight and Day new! 11:10 7:35 9:55 12:05am HOUR AWAY Take to the arrival by the school principal. Frustrated, before filming his fight and training scenes with (PG-13) Knight and Day new! Prince of Persia: The I-20 to exit 33 (SC feeling alone and very angry, Dre tells his mom Jackie Chan. Acting wise, he does a great job, 1:00 1:30 3:35 4:15 (PG-13, No Passes) Sands of Time (PG- Route 39) that he is ready to go home. Her only response probably just playing himself; he adds jokes 6:10 7:05 8:45 9:45 11:25am 2:15 4:55 13) Take SC 39 to to him is a very disappointing, “this is home”. and charisma to his character that will delight Jonah Hex new! (PG- 7:45 10:25 11:30am 2:05 5:25 Monetta, SC (approx. Taking an opportunity to exact some movie goers. Jackie Chan puts on possibly his 13) Jonah Hex new! (PG- 7:55 10:40 7 miles.) revenge on his enemies, Dre throws a bucket best acting performance aside of stunt fighting 1:30 4:00 6:55 9:15 13, No Passes) Sex and the City 2 (R) Turn right onto US 1. of dirty water on them and takes off running that I have seen yet. He brings rare emotion and Toy Story 3 new! (G) 11:10am 1:25 3:40 12:25 3:45 7:10 10:20 The drive-in is only to be caught where he once again finds power to his character while still maintaining 12:45 3:20 6:30 9:05 5:50 8:05 10:15 Shrek Forever After approximately one himself lying face down on the ground. This some of his signature funny man antics and one Toy Story 3 in Disney Toy Story 3 new! (G, (PG) mile down US 1 on the time, however, he is rescued by his buildings liners. Of course there’s one of my celebrity Digital 3D new! (G) No Passes) 12:15 2:45 5:15 right maintenance man, Mr. Han (Jackie Chan). He girlfriends, Taraji P. Henson, who plays a cool Disney Digital 3D 10:20am 11:40am Robin Hood (PG-13) CASH ONLY! Gates quickly puts an end to the fight without once but no nonsense mother who will kill someone Showtimes More Info 1:00 2:20 3:45 5:05 7:25 10:25 open at 7pm and show laying a hurtful hand on the children who are over her baby. I might also add that she looks 12:30 1:30 3:05 4:05 6:25 7:50 9:05 10:30 Iron Man 2 (PG-13) starts at 8:45. much younger than himself even though they quite delicious while donning a traditional red 5:40 6:40 8:10 9:10 The A-Team (PG-13) 12:35 4:25 7:05 10:35 June 18, 19 and 20 take turns trying to attack him. He then takes Chinese dress called a Cheongsam during one Dre to the martial arts studio where these bullies scene. The Karate Kid (2010) 10:30am 11:30am train to confront their sensei, Master Li (Yu Young or old, boy or girl, karate or Kung (PG) 1:20 2:25 4:20 5:15 Nickelodeon Screen 1 Rongguang), and try to make peace. Master fu, this film is definitely one to check out. It 12:30 1:45 3:30 4:45 7:10 8:10 9:55 10:55 http://www. Karate Kid Li, who relentlessly teaches his students to be doesn’t disappoint and even though I haven’t 6:45 8:10 9:50 The Karate Kid (2010) nickelodeon.org/ 937 Grown Ups merciless and excessively violent in their battles, seen the original, I’m sure it would have made Shrek Forever After (PG) Main Street wants to hear nothing of the sort claiming that Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita) proud. I 3D (PG) 10:00am 11:45am Columbia, SC Screen 2 they both have disrespected his studio and give The Karate Kid “4 training sessions of Digital 3D Showtimes 1:05 3:00 4:15 6:10 Toy Story 3 prevents either of them from leaving without a repeatedly putting your jacket on and off out More Info 7:25 9:15 10:35 THE SECRET IN Prince of Persia fight. 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But quite often, 18 It may stick out of one’s pants names 37 It may get in gear but as soon as I started on birth control, my libido they don’t want it, they do it anyway, it sucks 20 General Colin’s nickname in 68 Caustic substances 38 Greek consonant evaporated. After a nightmarish year of trying (‘physically boring,’ ‘I put on my game face’), the dynamite business? 39 “Smoking” alternative different methods, arguing with doctors, and hurt and they do it anyway and keep doing it.” 22 Old synthesizer brand Down 43 Tissue swellings feelings, I decided that it wasn’t worth it, and Herbenick believes a temporary “ban on 23 Albuquerque coll. 1 Shearing sound 44 Nevada county we’ve stopped using any hormonal birth control intercourse”—or taking “vaginal off the menu,” 24 Kind of dye 2 Baseball stats 48 “The Writer’s Almanac” (we’re using condoms). as I’ve recommended in similar circumstances— 25 Helper, for short 3 They get deployed subject But months later, I still have almost no ”can help couples learn to touch each other again 27 Goddess of the dawn 4 Ian of “Ratatouille” 49 Burning the midnight oil interest in sex or masturbation. We have sex once with pleasure.” 29 “Humble” homes 5 Body type somewhere in the 50 Cowboys’ home or twice a week, but it’s physically boring. I put I think you should take the advice of both of 34 “The Office” actor Steve made middle 52 Office notes on my game face and endure it. I enjoy pleasing our guest experts: Initiate a ban on intercourse for up of many parts? 6 Obama Chief of Staff Emanuel 54 Part of NEA him, but it does nothing for me. It hurts him that I now, NHNH, because you’re not doing you, your 37 Snoring cause 7 “I could ___ referee” (line from 56 Busy workers during April am not interested in sex and that he can’t arouse libido, or your boyfriend any favors when you put 40 Its chairman was Yasser Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”) 57 Latvian capital or please me. I want us to have a healthy sex life, on that game face and go through the motions, and Arafat 8 Down Under pal 58 Right on the map? because I love him and he’s worth it. Could this go get your hormone levels checked. 41 Long-limbed 9 Airline with a hub at Ben 59 “Get going!” 42 Thurston of “Gilligan’s Gurion still be the birth control? Did I somehow flip the 60 Playwright Coward Island” moving to Missouri? 10 Finger part 61 The whole kit and caboodle OFF switch? What does a person do when an LTR starts to 45 “The Worst Comedian of All 11 Online address Please help, Dan. My doctors are all sex- feel stagnant or boring or dull? Time,” according to Maxim 13 Asian mammal also called a ©2010 Jonesin’ Crosswords negative and don’t see the problem, and I want to Partnered But Jonesing 46 Betty White recently hosted it “humped cattle” ([email protected]) enjoy sex again. 47 Tater 15 Elizabeth Wurtzel autobio Not Horny, Not Happy A person experiments (with partner), cheats 51 Fashion line? drug (on partner), or breaks up (with partner). Your problem doesn’t sound like a case of differing sex drives, NHNH, but like a healthy sex I have a dilemma. Even though I was born drive that’s been derailed. in 1972, people always assume that I’m in my “Birth control pills can decrease sexual desire mid-20s. I tend to attract girls in their early 20s, if they substantially lower testosterone levels,” and when they ask how old I am, I counter with says Cindy M. Meston, PhD, professor of clinical “How old do you think I am?” They invariably psychology at University of Texas at Austin guess an age that I haven’t seen in more than a and author of Why Women Have Sex. “The pill decade. When I tell these 21- to 23-year-olds the supplies a steady dose of hormones, so that the truth, it’s a complete turnoff. Just last night I had body stops producing its own unsteady, cyclical to endure—that’s endure, not Ensure—my third dose.” The pill keeps your estrogen level high in brush-off at the hands of a hot 21-year-old girl order to prevent ovulation, while also “increasing in a row! the sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), So what’s an apparent senior citizen like which binds to testosterone, thus blocking it from myself to do? Do I just wait hopelessly for the being ‘read’ by the body.” dreaded question to come up? Do I blurt out “I’m Testosterone plays a huge role in female old” as soon as a woman walks up to me? Do I libido, and blocking testosterone doesn’t do your take measures to try to look my age? libido any favors. And while most women who You’re probably wondering why I don’t just experience a severe drop in libido on the pill go for women closer to my own age. Here’s why: bounce back a few months after they stop taking Women my own age tell me that they’re looking it, some women aren’t so lucky. for serious relationships and I look way too young “One well-regarded researcher, Irwin for that and they worry that my looks mean I’m a Goldstein, found that after stopping the pill, SHBG total player! remained high in some women and testosterone You’re Only Using Numbers, Girls levels didn’t go back up,” says Meston. “It’s not common, but it could explain this woman’s First, YOUNG, maybe your problem is the situation. The best thing for her would be to go to lousy puns. Endure/Ensure? That would earn you a gynecologist, urologist, or endocrinologist who a brush-off from me. specializes in sexual medicine (make sure they But if older women aren’t interested because actually know what the hell they’re measuring) you look too young, and younger women aren’t and have all her reproductive hormones interested because you are too old—if you’re measured. If she’s low in testosterone, she can actually being discriminated against based on take testosterone supplements.” your age/looks—then you have a license to lie to That means you’ll have to fire your current women, young and old. sex-negative doctors, NHNH, and find yourself Let younger women think you’re in your 20s some new, sex-positive ones—and you’ll have to until they get to know you better. Then disclose stick with them. and apologize for the deceit without being too “She needs a good doctor to monitor her abject about it. You had cause. As for women closely, as too much testosterone causes bad side closer to your own age, well, instead of telling effects in women—side effects like facial hair them you’re very nearly 40, YOUNG, let ‘em growth.” think you’re a twentysomething with a thing for I also shared your e-mail with Debby older women. 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siNg iT lOud The seCreT haNdshake The Fake Boys There fOr TOmOrrOW David Bazan Lewis Turn Out w/ Dance Commander Hawaiian Shirt Day Rubik Patchwork Medic Fight The Quiet Thurs. June 24 I Am Carpenter Wed. June 30 Sun. July 11 From Columbia With Love $10/$13$12 6pm6pm $7 7pm 122 State St. W Columbia SC 29169 www.newbrooklandtavern.com 803.791.4413