It's cruel to mock the stupid

[pecunium]

Which is why I am not linking to this, but it's an amazing moment of WTF!?!, and I can't keep it to myself (I'm not always the nicest of people).

Today I’m on a flight to San Jose, CA. Well, two flights. Couldn’t find a direct flight.

It was yesterday that I discovered LA and SF were not in the same location… See, I don’t know CA very well and I’m actually headed to Palo Alto. So I mistakenly assumed that LA was pretty much right there, too.

I think the confusion came from last time I was in CA, I flew into SF and out of Oakland, so I had this impression of all the cities being close to each other.

I'm croggled. Not so much that a grown man, and an american citizen, might not know LA and SF are 400 miles apart from each other, but that he would look at a state the size of California, and assume all the metropli are adjacent because two of them were so colocated the last time he was here.

That's the first bit.

The second is that he admits it, with a sense of blasé delivery which implies he thinks this a reasonable mistake to make.

Comments

[elf]

Just proves we need to split the state. SoCal gets Hollywood and Death Valley; NorCal gets SF and the Humboldt harvests; we flip a coin over who has to take gets Fresno & Bakersfield. Los Banos can declare independent nation status and charge $5.75/gallon for gas to support itself.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Lesee.... the coast (say Santa Barbara to Point Reyes, and inland about 25 miles), the western south (say Ventura to the Border, again in to the Angeles Crestish). The Imperial Valley, up the backside to include Edwards, the Mojave and Owens Valley.

The Central Valley can be it's own little self, and the North can do what it wants. We Declare the Sierra Nevada to be neutral territory and leave it for a wilderness.

Oh, the water wars we can look forward too (esp. since the Central Valley is the largest user, and waster, in the state).

TK

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I once saw an exhibit of "split California" proposals over the decades. All the maps were slightly different.

B

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the sometimes jokingly proposed combining of Southern California and Southern Nevada into one and Northern California and Northern Nevada into one.

DV (native Nevadan)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yep. The problem of polities (the Central Valley is very red, and I can't think of anyplace I would rather not be prosecuted than Bakersfield). The problem of water, and economies, and all the other things which make California what it is.

I don't think it can be broken up well.

TK