15/01/2013
Gravity
Have you ever stumbled, dropped something, or felt the weight of something on aching muscles? Tennessee wants you to know that it feels your pain, and is finally doing something about it! "Last year I drunk-drove off a cliff and fractured a rib," said TN Republican Party Chair Eustace P. Poltypont, "And ever since then, I've been agonizing over what could possibly have caused such a catastrophe. It obviously wasn't my drinking - I'm drunk every day, but I've only ever driven off the road a few dozen times this year. And then it hit me: Gravity."
Following the completely unavoidable accident, Poltypont started an activist group seeking to end the ravages of gravity - Southern Patriots Against Newtonian Kruelty - that has blamed the phenomenon for countless deaths, equipment failures, and economic losses that have been incurred ever since it began being taught in schools. "Did you ever hear about people falling off ladders before Isaac Newton came along? Of course you haven't - no, no, shut up, I'm talking - no one has ever heard of such thing. So I've called together a diverse panel of experts from all the various Pentecostal churches of Tennessee, and we've come up with an explanation: Gravity is actually a demonic curse inflicted on the world by Isaac Newton himself, and perpetuated by people believing in it."
Upon receiving copies of the panel's report, the TN legislature convened an emergency session to discuss what to do about it and promptly banned gravity from public education, judicial proceedings, and aircraft maneuvers over Tennessee airspace. "No longer will this state be enslaved to an invisible force other than God - especially one as heathenous as to prove its own existence empirically," said state Senator Something Somethingson (R - Up His Own Ass). "I hereby declare Tennessee gravity-free!" The Senator then attempted to walk straight off the podium without using the stairs, and screamed in shock and outrage as the floor came rushing toward his face. Several prominent physicists have been arrested on suspicion of casting the gravitic hex on the Senator