Six in the City: Little Debbie has left the building

Deborah "Puffy Mommy" Cox, arguably the whitest news anchor in Richmond, VA this side of Colleen Reilly, has quit Channel Six. Appropriately enough, she's gone to work for the Virginia State Police, arguably the whitest law enforcement agency this side of Mississippi. If Deborah ever had an original thought, she never shared it during her broadcast career. Then again, local television anchors are not paid to have original thoughts. That's why they call them news readers in England.

Apparently the Virginia State Police couldn't find an conventional-minded, uptight, semi-good-looking, mediocre African-American news anchor suitable for the job (take Gwen Williams of Channel Eight - please.) Speaking of uptight, one of the dumbest ideas a Richmond news director ever had was to send Junior League wannabe Colleen Reilly to a Woodstock revival, where she spent the entire time wrinkling her enormous nose at the smelly hippies and saying, "Eeeww."

To celebrate Debbie's arrival, the Virginia State Police are having a contest to replace their old slogan, "There's always something with your car when we don't like you." That replaced their slogan during the era of the Harry Byrd machine, which was, "Government by and for rich old white racists shall not perish from the earth." I like the one Merle Haggard submitted, "We're already living in a police state." And there's the ever-popular bumper sticker, "Support the police - beat yourself up."