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When did Memphis gain statehood?
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Silly U.S. Map Puzzle #5
What do the colors on this map mean?
If you wish to check your answer, or just what to know what the solution is, just scroll down.
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Solution:
Of the other 49 states in the USA, how many are adjacent to this one? The answer to this question determines the color of each state.
One point of clarification: if it takes a lengthy trip by boat or ship to get there, I didn’t count it as an adjacent state . . . so, for example, Minnesota and Michigan didn’t make each other’s lists. Simply going over a bridge isn’t enough for this sort of separation, though, which is why Arkansas and Tennessee did make each others’ lists of adjacent states. Had I interpreted water borders differently, this map would have some differences.
Another way this map could be altered would be to count states that meet others only at a single point, rather than a border with non-zero length. This would change the colors of the “four corners” states of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado, but would have no effect on the other 46 states.
Welcome to Arkansas: The Tornado State
We’re under a tornado watch here, for approximately the thousandth time in my life. Seeing a “tornado watch” alert is about as rare here as seeing a Walmart.
Do wake me up if there’s a tornado warning, though, please.
Public Education in Arkansas Is Under Attack — By Our Own State Legislature!
For details on the efforts of the majority of the Arkansas State Legislature to ruin public schools in Arkansas, please watch this music video:
The AEA (Arkansas Education Association) is doing everything they can to resist this flood of anti-education legislation. If you are eligible for membership in the AEA, and join, that will help with these efforts — for the strength of the AEA grows as our number of members increases. If you work in an Arkansas public school, you can join. Students can join also, and so can those who have retired from work in the field. For information on how to join, please click here.
How to Fix the Gay Marriage Debate, and All Other Legal Problems Related to Marriage and Divorce, All At Once
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The government is now deeply involved in the process of people getting into and out of marriages, but this was not always so. Marriage is simply an agreement — a contact — between at least two people. Or a person and a toaster, perhaps, for that doesn’t really hurt any of us, now, does it?
Churches do lots of weddings, and they’re used to this role. They can keep doing it the same way they have been, except for parts which involve government. Churches could issue marriage licenses; we don’t need the state doing it.
Now, of course, people shouldn’t be required to be religious, or pretend to be, to get married. Any organization or individual could issue marriage licenses. For that matter, we could simply have official recognition of people’s relationship statuses on Facebook.
Yes, I mean that. Why not?
It used to be really simple. There’s no good reason for it to have become so complicated. Let’s fix that, with separation of marriage and the state.
Now, at the same time, we will need to change certain other things. Right now, the state encourages people to marry, with varying tax rates for married and single people. I contend that this is not a proper role for the state. There should be no reward for marrying, nor should there be any kind of penalty. They’re our marriages, not the government’s. Government should simply have stayed out of such matters, and should get out of them now.
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