MNZ: National Geographic May 2007

This issue was much more informative than last month’s academically-inflated Enquirer was, mostly because of the piece on Jamestown settlements, because it laid out more detailed history of native settlements. Of course, it was heavily tinged with Euro-devil condemnation, which I could do without because seriously, people are people and we’d all fuck over all the rest of us if any of us had half the chance. To suggest the victors are pure evil and the enslaved and onslaughted are pure good is silly. Anyways, they’ve been doing these 400 years anniversary plates in Virginia for like five years now, and they cost two bucks extra and that two bucks went to the Jamestown bullshit celebration coming up, and you had to know about this and specifically ask for the regular regular plates, or else they just forced these non-regular regular plates on you for the two dollar fee for Jamestown. That bothered me, but also I found it kinda funny, because it’s a natural extension of deeply-embedded government that started way back then. I also learned what a lot of the ridiculous sub-divisions in this state’s wacky native names actually mean. I though tuckahoe was just a really ultra-white part of west end Richmond, I didn’t know it was actually a potato-like tuber the firewater addicts dug up during especially hard harvests.