I am sick of living in a state that is a reference for everything that?s farked up socially in this country. I can?t watch TV or go out in public without hearing some noise about stupid shit that Alabama has done.
I flip on the news and whenever there?s a socially backwards plot happening, Alabama is the first word out of the reporter?s mouth. I watch a sitcom and the same rule applies. And every single freaking time a joke comes up about Alabama being the second worse education system in the country, the only reply most Alabamians have is, ?Thank God for Mississippi.’
The other night I was watching Family Business. That?s the Showtime documentary program that delves into the life of family run porn business owner Seymore Butts (Adam Glasser). This particular episode was on free speech. Adam was standing around in his warehouse, surrounded by butt loads of his porn on dvd and vhs, when he saw a box addressed to Alabama. He flips out. (For those of you who don?t know, Alabama is one of those states that do not allow what it deems to be pornography to be shipped into or out of its borders.) What follows is a meeting involving all the members of team Butts where the infuriated Adam does his best to drive home the fact that they can?t let stuff like that get past them cause it could result in jail time for any of them.
So there it is. The Alabama stigma strikes again. Racial animosity burned the brightest here and still burns behind certain smiling faces. Alabama kids get little more education than a cicada and no one seems to care. And in Alabama, sex can only be missionary, only between a man and a woman and God help you if you want to enhance your pleasure through other means. Alabama, the state in which I live.
My rant ends here.
