I have a recommendation as to where you should go for lunch: Charleston, South Carolina. Now, unless you're in Hanahan or Folly Beach or Mt. Pleasant, it could take you a long time to get there. So you might want to leave soon. But you really should go, because Charleston has some of the very best food you will ever eat anywhere. There is a place there called Jestine's Kitchen, which has become quite famous, and so often has a line of people waiting outside, and so also has lots of people who like to talk about food on the internet dismissing it as a "tourist trap" and inferior [...]

While various states may argue about over supremacy when it comes to political corruption, there is no disputing which of our nation's commonwealths practices the dirtiest actual politics: Step forward, South Carolina! Today's Washington Post even went to the trouble of nailing down the state's five nastiest races, one of which culminated in Tuesday's primary, where state Rep. Nikki Haley, a Republican of Indian descent, was forced into a runoff for the gubernatorial nomination. Her race looked like this.

Last Tuesday, two toddlers were found dead in a car that had sunk to the bottom of a river. The scenario had an eerie parallel to the Susan Smith episode of 1994: both incidents occurred in South Carolina, and in both cases the mother was charged with murder.

No doubt spooked by the surge of donations to presumptive 2010 opponent Rob Miller-Miller's raised over $700,000 as of this writing-South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson has released this video, apologizing for shouting "You lie!" at the President of the United States and, uh, also asking for some money so that he can continue to "speak up and speak loudly," which I'm sure the Republican House leadership will be totally thrilled by. Meanwhile, for historical perspective, the Washington Post has an infographic of other wacky South Carolinian political activities throughout history; it mentions Strom Thurmond twice but respectfully neglects that whole Fort Sumter unpleasantness. Anyway, Wilson's probably [...]

The Alvin Greene situation in South Carolina is indeed getting weirder. Election experts analyzing the ballots in the state's Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate (in which Greene, an unknown homeless veteran who had no campaign operation at all, beat a former four-term legislator) are discovering some unusual disparities. A co-worker of Your Geeky Boyfriend Nate Silver looks at the possibilities.