A RANT TO the North Augusta police officer who left his car running for 30 minutes while getting his hair cut at the North Augusta Barber Shop. You ought to be ashamed. Wasting taxpayers' gas for the sake of keeping your car cool is a form of robbery. May I suggest placing yourself under arrest for pick-pocketing the taxpayers of North Augusta.

RAVES, RAVES, raves to South Carolina for their Christian car tags.

CAN SHERIFF MIKE HUNT take care of the drug problem we have in the Graniteville area (Breezy Hill)? Please send some of your good men and get the drug dealers and drug addicts off our street.

YOU GEORGIA BULLDOGS fans who live in South Carolina need to move to Georgia. That way all your "G" stickers and front tags will be right at home and we won't have to put up with your know-it-all attitudes.

HARRIS PASTIDES, a possible president for the University of South Carolina, says, if put in office, he would "try to find new sources of money." He's a perfect example of 21st century "leadership." He'd rather find new money than cut spending.

A RAVE TO Gov. Mark Sanford and his secretary, Ms. Cooper, for their help with my fight against the TRA program system here in South Carolina. I just would like to tell them publicly, thank you so much. You stood by me and got me the results I was hoping and praying for. You can't know how much I appreciate that.

THE UNIVERSITY OF South Carolina is trying to top the University of Georgia by hiring a new president and immediately overpaying him. South Carolina plans to pay Mr. Pastides half a million bucks a year; thus, the man becomes a millionaire again every two years. And for what? Not for knowing how to teach or run a school. Rather, it's for "familiarity and fundraising." "Familiarity?" Soon, they'll have a college major and professors working in the "Familiarity Department." If this wasn't so sadly expensive, it might make a sitcom.

PEOPLE FROM the Grace Fellowship church in North Augusta are giving to others. Dynamite. Alas, they were "inspired by Oprah's Big Give. " Pray the Grace folks don't get misled by a notorious misleader.

HURRAY FOR Aiken City Council members who have the backbone to do what is right for the majority of their residents -- ban indoor smoking!