Y’all, I have such an abundance of charming news from Mississippi, that I’ve designated today Hell, Yes, It’s Mississippi Day.

First, we have this for the people who just can’t let go.

A Mississippi lawmaker is proposing two state flags.

Republican House Speaker Pro Tempore Greg Snowden is proposing that the state have two flags: one with the Confederate emblem, which currently represents Mississippi, and another flag without the emblem.

You know, like we used to have separate drinking fountains.

If you want to know how a guy can be so tone deaf, it might have something to do with education in Mississippi.  Mississippi is all that stands between Texas being the worse state in the nation for education.  And they proudly uphold that standard.

A principal served four years and two months in prison for attempted murder. Another pleaded guilty to embezzling $73,033 in electronics from his school. One teacher struck a student, and several others were accused of misconduct involving students.

All of these individuals surrendered or lost their teaching license, and each of them was later reinstated by Mississippi’s commission responsible for disciplining educators.

And there is even a possible explanation for that.  As I was looking around to find more bad teachers in Mississippi, I stumbled across this:

Highway patrol spokesman Eric Henry said the incident began when a vehicle slowed down in front of an 18 wheeler carrying a load of Budweiser beer. In order to avoid hitting the back of the vehicle, the truck driver steered into the median, and the truck overturned.

In the oncoming lane, the driver of a Toyota Tacoma saw the accident happen, and slowed his vehicle, at which point he was rear-ended by another 18 wheeler. That pushed the Tacoma into the back of a third 18 wheeler.

Henry said there are no injuries, but authorities will be on scene for a few hours clearing the spilled beer from the median.

You would be hard-pressed to prove those were not empty cans leaving Mississippi.  I bet it was the best attended highway clean-up in the state.

Thanks to AlanInAustin for the original heads up.