While perusing a certain Atlanta-based news website, I happened on an article about the best and worst roads in the USA. Not surprisingly (since I live here!), South Carolina is ranked as the second deadliest state due to DUI, and the third deadliest state due to speeding.
Way to go, Palmetto State. Yet again you've managed to embarrass those among the citizenry who do NOT consider these statistics a good thing to garner headlines for! As if we weren't already the national whipping boy over "You lie!" and our AWOL governor on the Argentine tail trail. :P (Our state bird, the gamecock, often abbreviated only to the second half of that word, sort of sums it all up!)
In the words of the immortal Monty Python, RIGHT.
So, what does our perpetually backlogged state legislature intend to do about this latest boost to the state's ego? Likely nothing, as usual.
But hope springs eternal. I also learned from a radio broadcast I heard this afternoon that the offices of EVERY politico in the state are UP FOR GRABS on November 2, 2010. That means EVERYONE--both US senators, Congressman, the governor, lieutenant governor, & the ENTIRE state legislature--will be bombarding us with rancor as they try to keep the seats in which they've been less than effectual for the Palmetto State.
Time for a bit of fresh air in Columbia's halls of power? Maybe a different crowd could manage things better than the current lot has done...?
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