Let's just put a peeing Calvin on it and be done with it

Many people are ooh-ing and ahh-ing over the new license plate adopted by our state. In pastel colors it depicts an idyllic Alabama beach scene. This is intended to generate tourism to our narrow but lovely stretch of coastline on the Gulf of Mexico, something of which many folks - even in our own state -are unaware.

Others are marveling that we have finally secured the rights to the title of Lynryd Skynyrd's paean to our beautiful state and that the words Sweet Home Alabama will finally be emblazoned on our automobiles.

Here is the new tag in all it's splendor:

Nice enough, I suppose.

But I am not too amped about all this. Because I know how it will actually look on the highway.

Here's my guess at what the final exhibition will be: