If it's bad, it came from Southwest Georgia

A few years ago, I had the--ahem--"privilege" of working in Albany, Ga. If you don't know where Albany is, don't worry, you're not missing anything.

Except an utter train wreck.

At some point in the history of this great nation, Albany was actually a thriving city amongst the farmland of Southwest Georgia. Today, it's an freaking disaster. You have a bunch of under-educated but overly egotistical black folks who are now in the majority and aren't interested in anything but sticking it to the white folks who have been working as hard as they can to screw them over for about 300 years. And, to an extent, you really can't blame them, as most of the whiteys are just as arrogant, just as stupid and think that, if they wish hard enough, the Civil War's still going on.

So what are you left with? A city that's dying due to complete mismanagement, unparalleled corruption and an inept, underpaid police force. Think Chicago without the winters or any success.

Sadly, Albany's not an exception in that region--it's a shining example of the rule. The whole place sucks and, when you cap its outright hostility to anyone from the outside, there's no reason to be there. In fact, it's a place to avoid.

The only good thing that came out of my 15 months and 3 days in Albany was meeting the missus (who, like me, wasn't from there and was ready to get the hell out the day she arrived). Everything else was pretty bad. In fact, everyone used to joke about how, if something sucked, it had to be local.

Now, that's certainly the case. You've heard about the nationwide salmonella outbreak, right? Guess where it started? A peanut processing plant in Blakely, Ga.

Yup, Southwest Georgia, where Albany remains the crown jewel. How un-shocking that SOWEGA's stupidity has grown to the point where it's making the rest of us sick.