The City of Birmingham has been ranked the most charitable city in the nation. That’s great news (and interesting that all you’d have to do is give 4 percent of your income to be the most charitable in the nation by far). Now it seems possible that Birmingham and other southern cities ranked so highly because of the high percentage of church giving, but it’s also odd that a city can be more charitable than any other in the nation and yet be in a super-red state that is so “compassionate” that it doesn’t care if it executes the innocent (see also here) and, according to the Anniston Star (July 3) is trucking in a major supply of our nation’s massive semi-legal chemical weapon supply.
Update: Horray! Toxic Culture has gotten its first cease and desist letter. Turns out that the people at the Anniston Star, while running the most journalistically sound newspaper in the state, are also pretty major assholes about their so-called intellectual property and have contacted us to demand that we take down the article that we posted. It’s not like we were making a practice out of stealing their journalism and distributing it for free. In fact, this was the only time we’d posted a chunk of one of their articles.
Obviously we only posted it because they hide all of their content behind a “subscribers only” wall that costs money, but it’s nice to know that they have someone policing the Interwebs seeking out even a single, solitary breach of that iron-fisted control over their small-town Alabama news content. Keep up the good work Star! Your tiny newspaper will clearly survive the death of the newspaper industry by making sure no blogs ever link to your precious content. Once the military’s chemical weapons facility malfunctions and coats your newspaper offices in illegal toxins, you can take solace in the fact that no non-subscribers will read your agonized final scribblings.
