It happened again, and if this doesn't stop, we're going to make Mississippi jealous.

In the column I wrote yesterday, I argued that the Alabama Legislature should put a clock on its wall, like one of those you see in factories ticking off the seconds since the last workplace accident. Except this one would count off the time since Alabama was last on the Daily Show.

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Well, reset the clock to zero.

Last night the Comedy Central political satire show set its sights on Alabama again, but this time it's not just the Alabama Legislature that's to blame.

Earlier this year, Alabama voters approved a state constitutional amendment that would ban the use of foreign law in Alabama courts. The amendment was a thinly veiled prohibition of sharia law in Alabama. And while a majority of Alabama voters approved the amendment, the comedy show skewered some of those same folks for not really knowing what sharia law is, or how Alabama is under threat.

I still think the Alabama Legislature needs that clock in the state house, but maybe we need one on the outside, too.

The Alabama segment begins at about the 2:20 mark in the clip below.