The Year In Review (Last One, I Swear!)
Dec. 31st, 2004 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sadlikeknivesA psychotic axe murderer escaped from the mental hospital just down the street over a week ago. He is still at large. No, really
The gentlemen turned himself in in Salt Lake City sometime this summer. Apparently he saw on the television that the police were searching for him. Didn't know there'd been a fuss.
Later, I will provide some entertaining facts about the Alabama Constitution. Prepare to be frightened.
The Alabama State Constitution was written in 1901, and is quite fucked up. It is ridiculously long. It is, in fact, the longest constitution in the world. It does not allow for home rule. Say Mobile County wants to have a tax to raise money to promote their shrimp industry. They must get an amendment to the state constitution, voted on by everyone in the state, to do this. And they did, this year. The Shrimp Tax amendment miraculously passed. I say 'miraculously', because the constitution is so fucked up, and so long, that many people vote 'no' on every amendment that comes up, trying to force whoever's in charge into writing a new one. This, along with the citizenry's deep-seated aversion to even the possibility of taxes, is why the amendment that would've removed racist language from the constitution did not pass. Now you know.
That's it, everyone! I'll see you again in 2005!
The gentlemen turned himself in in Salt Lake City sometime this summer. Apparently he saw on the television that the police were searching for him. Didn't know there'd been a fuss.
Later, I will provide some entertaining facts about the Alabama Constitution. Prepare to be frightened.
The Alabama State Constitution was written in 1901, and is quite fucked up. It is ridiculously long. It is, in fact, the longest constitution in the world. It does not allow for home rule. Say Mobile County wants to have a tax to raise money to promote their shrimp industry. They must get an amendment to the state constitution, voted on by everyone in the state, to do this. And they did, this year. The Shrimp Tax amendment miraculously passed. I say 'miraculously', because the constitution is so fucked up, and so long, that many people vote 'no' on every amendment that comes up, trying to force whoever's in charge into writing a new one. This, along with the citizenry's deep-seated aversion to even the possibility of taxes, is why the amendment that would've removed racist language from the constitution did not pass. Now you know.
That's it, everyone! I'll see you again in 2005!
