A new cinema has opened in Chad Adams? home base of Sanford. About $4 million of the cost of building the theater complex was provided by, naturally, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ? as part of what an official called President Bush’s commitment to rural America.

You can read more here about this noble effort to force hayseeds in the Midwest to finance efforts to expose the even-more-pathetic hayseeds of Lee County to this new-fangled ?motion picture? technology. Oh, and there?s an oversized novelty check involved.