Just Where Do Rapists Have Rights?/Namaste, Y'all!

We've had one reader ask if Alabama is one of only two states giving rapists rights to the products of their crimes. Our friend believes that as many as 30 other states do the same. 

Laws differing so from state to state, it's difficult to compare in every instance. We can say that Alabama is supposedly one of only two states which does not automatically sever the visitation rights of rapists upon conviction of the crime. 

No matter how many other states give rapists any legal standing in a child's life, do we really want Alabama to?

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Yoga...yeah, that really subversive trend that's been around for, oh, hundreds of years. We can remember yoga at UNA when we were there during the Napoleonic Wars. Opposition to yoga classes seems to come from fear of that newfangled rock group the Beatles and their heathen ways. 

No matter, we were intrigued that a recent bill in our legislature wanted to ALLOW yoga classes as long as no one said "Namaste." Being extremely culturally deprived, we had to look it up to be sure that it wasn't a contrived bit from Jonathan Creek. We found that it's a simple Indian greeting.

So can public school students still say "Buongiorno?" How about "Adios?" Are we prejudiced against Indians only? How have we been missing this?

Our state legislature at work, folks.