Some interesting history from the song (I lived there as a kid). The lyric “In Birmingham they love the governor, now we all did what we could do,” is about Wallace winning the whole state but losing Birmingham soundly. To pay them back, he shut off road funding, and for years, the interstates stopped in midair on the way into town.

Edit: to talk about the state itself, it has some of the worst roads in the nation. The beaches are flat and rather milquetoast. The pine forests are beautiful when it’s not hot and humid. There have been a number of comments about the wealth disparity, and that’s big all along the gulf of mexico.

The battleship in Mobile is pretty cool, though.

But not for a camper, sadly.

I had a few ideas to push it into the absurd territory, but I felt playing it straight was the best course of action here.

I’m not your Onion, Pal!

Knowing america has written you off is disheartening, but at least you have your fellow texans to rally together.

As an anerican my faith in the government stopping this is maybe 20%.

I salute you for accepting the world is pretty messed up. Also I kept Leo Sturbgetter out of it.

Please expand on how the highest paying research is corporate, and how that proves your point. It sounds very much like the hand-wavy stuff people say before they start yelling because they have no argument, but I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. Are you yourself a researcher?

I’d like to thank the current administration for so many choice writing prompts.

Don’t talk ill of him, he might be near children.

Has anyone suggested tattoos and gas chambers or we not going with full irony quite yet?

Dropping them in texas is alarming, though. The battle was originally to keep them contained in central america near the isthmus. If they’re in texas they can spread widely around the us south, creating yet another reason not to want to be there.

The difference between a belief and a theory is no one was ever burned at the stake disagreeing about a theory.

New Zealand is quite lovely; I could afford it and I’m on the expedited list of specialties. Can’t leave the kids, though, so I’m stuck watching the ship go down.

We will only recover from this one day if China lets us.

Can I have a little sausage, as a treat?

That’s something I’ve thought about a lot; these people are going to war with their society, and their and their family’s names and addresses are one data breech away from public knowledge.

Fortunately the government is protecting them by mass layoffs and encouraging mass retirements from anyone involved in data security.

My personal bingo card has the families of some these people dropped off in the chihuahaun desert if they piss off the cartels.

Other shoppers bundled this purchase with a really big american flag.

20 is nice in freshly washed sheets.

Well I mean crimes of passion were left off the list.