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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Sat, Apr 03 2004
One Less Hanging In Mississippi
When the mayor of Walls, Mississippi planned to add a hanging plaque of the Ten Commandments to the city hall (after the recent Alabama battle over the Ten Commandments monument), I'm sure he had every intention of showing the rest of the world how it's done, and the media showed up to record the town's defiant act. There was just one problem.
I mean no disrespect to the citizens there, but I'm wondering if the little town has a history of such mayoral blunders, and perhaps even got its name as a reminder--though that did no good in this case. It must really hurt the mayor's pride to admit that, in a town named Walls, he forgot to make sure he had something to put up on a wall.
posted at: 08:55 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
When the mayor of Walls, Mississippi planned to add a hanging plaque of the Ten Commandments to the city hall (after the recent Alabama battle over the Ten Commandments monument), I'm sure he had every intention of showing the rest of the world how it's done, and the media showed up to record the town's defiant act. There was just one problem.
I mean no disrespect to the citizens there, but I'm wondering if the little town has a history of such mayoral blunders, and perhaps even got its name as a reminder--though that did no good in this case. It must really hurt the mayor's pride to admit that, in a town named Walls, he forgot to make sure he had something to put up on a wall.
posted at: 08:55 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
