Wisconsin 1, Da Yoo Pee 0

From Thatsaabguy:

Yeah yeah, I know, it's Yet Another Michigan Post. But it's entirely too cool!

I love our friends at The Consumerist, who consistently entertain, shock and amuse me with their consumer-centric stories. This one it cool, for obvious reasons:



Apparently the Cheese State needed more room for dairy cows, so those pesky Great Lakes just HAD to go. Might as well annex The Rabbit while you're at it....

Milwaukee Supervisor Gets "F" in Southwest Geography

Peggy West, Milwaukee County Supervisor, has apparently never looked at a map of the Southwest United States (beyond Texas).

From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal:

In supporting a proposed county boycott of business with Arizona, she said Arizona did not share a border with Mexico. The gaffe was captured by WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).

"If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this, saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this," West said. "But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border."

Perhaps she saw the Gadsden Purchase in some history book and thought it was the 51st State...



I wonder how she would hold up in a Geography Quiz vs. Miss Teen South Carolina:



Peggy probably wouldn't come in 3rd place in The Amazing Race!

Via Lost States

UPDATE

Barbara reminded me about Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson and his worry that Guam will flip over and capsize if too many soldiers are stationed there...



And of course, who can forget Sen. McCain's Iraq Pakistan border gaff?

Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan

Breaking News from The Onion:

KARUNCHI, SNAKISTAN—Citing crumbling relations due to years of protracted french-onion diplomacy, the president of the Central Asian doritocracy Fritolaysia withdrew the country's ambassadors from Snakistan Monday.

"We have been supplying the people of Snakistan with pre-packaged consumable goods for over 40 years, and for them to show resistance to our savory products is unacceptable," Fritolaysian President Barbbaku Chedar said, referring to Snakistani officials' unwillingness to adhere to Fritolaysia's zesty new initiative introduced during a between-meals conference at last week's international-trading summit held in München, Germany.

More...

Hawaii IS in Africa

Pinko Magazine offers an exclusive peak at Rejected Town Hall Rally Posters, including this one, sure to have been popular among birthers:

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle of Civilization

From The Accordion Guy: FOX News Doesn’t Know Where Iraq Is...



OK... you seen one cradle of civilization, you seen them all...

The Fox graphics department is also known for its tendency to mislabel badly-behaving Republicans as Democrats...

Via The Map Room

Previously:
The Wrong Georgia on Google's Mind
Iraq-Pakistan Border

What Happened While I Was Gone?

Mrs. Cartophiliac and I are back from our trip to Mexico. We visited Mexico City and several nearby sites, Including Teotihuacan:



I found a handful of map postcards, but not much else in the way of map memorabilia. I'll post a few things in the next few days.

Normally, I like to keep tabs on the news, and of course most of the news I saw was in Spanish, so I wasn't always sure what was going on... however, clearly the two biggest news stories of the last two weeks have been the Olympics and the fighting in the former soviet republic of Georgia. Since returning home I have been doing some catching up... so some of these images may be old news for you...

The New York Times has this terrific Olympic cartogram, that compares the number of medals won per country, at every Olympic Games from 1896 to the present:



Via The Map Room

Also via The Map Room is this embarassing Google News map goof:



Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's The Daily Show makes light the average American's ignorance about World Geography:



"War. God's way of teaching Americans geography."



The Princess Sparkle Pony Blog was more than a little tired of the media's repeated allusion to the Ray Charles song, Georgia on My Mind.



FWIW

I do not find humor in the loss of life in this conflict between Georgia and Russia, but I cannot help but find ironic humor in the silly and ignorant responses to the tragedy.


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