I don't know why the hell all of the lunatics are from the South. I live in the South—well, sort of, since I live in Texas which is really a reality unto itself, but it is still in the southern part of the nation, separating the "South" from the Southwest." So I am fully aware that there is no lack of stupid people who ought to know better around here. I just wonder why I don't read more about the idiots up north. I mean, I KNOW they are there. Cheney came from Wyoming, for instance. But no, it seems only the crazies from the South get the headlines.

Take for instance Alabama State Rep. Steve Hurst, D-Munford, who has prefiled a bill in the Alabama House that would require most Alabama car tags to include the phrase "God Bless America."

"I thought why don't we do the same thing for all the tags in the state of Alabama. That will let all the people in America know that we are a Bible Belt state," Hurst said.

Oh. My. God. And this guy is a state representative? I guess if you happen to live in Alabama and you aren't a Christian you just don't count. As if you needed me to tell you that. But it gets better.

"This ("God Bless America") doesn't have anything to do with anything already on the tag," Hurst said. "Here we are in the times of 9/11, times of war and terrorists. It's a time for the nation to pull together and I think this is something that reflects how the majority of Alabamians feel."

Why is it that lame-ass politicians feel that doing something as divisive as excluding all faiths except Christianity will somehow "pull together" the nation? Unite one segment of the natiuon against all of the others—or vice-versa, maybe, but forcing people of different faiths and beliefs to kowtow to some specifically Christian slogan just doesn't say inclusiveness to me, personally.

Thank you, Alabama, for reminding Americans ONCE AGAIN that the really stupid people reside south of the Mason-Dixon Line.