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Dustbury celebrates the legalization of the Tattoo Parlor in Oklahoma:

Governor Henry has signed Senate Bill 806, which legalizes the fine art of tattoo, putting the Sooner State out in front of … well, nobody, actually, since every other state has already taken tattooing off the Forbidden List.

Since the provisions of the bill don’t take effect until the first of November, the only immediate effect is to reduce by one the number of gripes from those who believe that if there’s a bright center to the universe, they’re in the state that it’s farthest from.

So now I can get a tattoo, eh? Mark this on the chalk board under “things I may get around to doing if I suddenly find about to die from a complete and utter lack of anything better to do, like floss or clean the catbox.”

My, how times have changed. For years, Oklahoma shipped a healthy number of dollar bills to our neighboring cities in Texas for any number of vices you would care to name: tattoos, high-alcohol beer, lottery tickets, gambling, sharp stinging blows to the head, etc. However, thanks to recent doses of legislative liberalism, my home state has managed to divest itself of most of our backwoods charm and repressiveness. Aren’t we the cosmopolitan ones?

Makes me wonder if Gainsville, TX, our closest metropolitan neighbor south of the border, is having some trouble making the municipal budget in the wake of our newfangled debauchery. All we need to do is legalize hardcore pornography and we’ll totally destroy their economy.

Oh, wait. It’s still illegal to get a fish drunk in Oklahoma. At least we have that.