I've gotta get out of this state.

So the rumors are true; Roy Moore is running for governor of the state of Alabama. The same Roy Moore who couldn't understand why so many folks disapproved of his putting a 5,280-pound granite monument of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Supreme Court building rotunda, and who was removed from office by the Alabama judicial ethics panel, would like to run the state. Now, normally I would dismiss this news breezily, thinking that there couldn't be enough people crazy enough to vote for him, but this comes on the heels of something that has sort of thrown me for a loop. Take a look at the image below, I've marked the relevant portion:



For those who can't see the picture, according to an online poll (Sept. 29, 2005) from a website for a local tv station here in Alabama, 28% of participants believed that the hurricanes (Katrina and Rita) were God's punishment for sin. Pardon the pun, but HOLY CRAP.

So what's a non-believer to do? Fake the 'amens', so as not to be outed? Move? I think my formula is going to be something like: crying + Captain Morgan's + The Daily Show - Fox News = survival