Swing low Alabama

In the "Ooh, I guess we're a little late" department, the City Council of Montgomery, Alabama, officially apologized to Rosa Parks and four other black women for being mistreated during the 1950's and 60's. Also, the Alabama legislature passed a bill pardoning Parks and many others for violating segregation laws. In other news, Alabama State College finally changed their mascot to the Wildcats from The Jumping Jim Crows.

Why in the name of George Wallace did this take so long? Maybe they were busy being one of the stupidest states in the country? Or producing corrupt Governors, psychotic NBA players, and annoying 7-UP pitchmen?

Not wanting to be outdone, several celebrities quickly released the following apologies this week:

- Jimmy Fallon made an apology to the city of Boston for making Fever Pitch. It was rejected. He promptly became a Cubs fan.

- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak apologized to the state of Israel for enslaving Jews. Charlton Heston accepted.

- Tom Cruise apologized for ruining Katie Holmes.

- President George Bush apologized to gays, the poor, the elderly, vetarans, environmentalists, the nation of Iraq, the families of the people lost on 911, in Hurricane Katrina, in the Iraq War, and to diseases that could have been cured by stem cell research, finally taking full responsibility for all of his administration's failures. No, he didn't.