The first picture here is some of the suggestions for names and logos for our local professional minor league baseball team that started playing last year. These ideas were submitted by normal members of the community. Look at how bright and fun they are - and each idea celebrates some aspect of local culture. Literally any one of these would have been better than what the bureaucrats settled on.
The second picture shows what the bureaucrats settled on after spending a million dollars and doing tons of “research”. Look at how daggaum ugly and stupid the Tri-State Coal Cats logo is. If the people getting to make these decisions fell into a field of flowers, they’d land in the only spot with briars. I wish the Appalachian League of professional baseball would kick them out, make them fire the bureaucrats, and start over.
https://downtownhuntington.net/minor-league-baseball-returns-to-huntington-in-2024/
The school textbooks tell you the settlers crossed the Atlantic for religious freedom.
Some of them did, partly. What the textbooks leave out is the thing that sits in the actual letters, in the sailors' accounts, in the merchant pamphlets circulating in English ports from the 1580s onwards: a major reason people came to America was the wild game. Meat you could take. Meat nobody owned. Meat that walked into camp.
For a population legally separated from the animal for five hundred years, this was the whole pitch.
Consider what they were leaving.
A family in a Devon cottage in 1618 eats pottage. Oats, barley, an onion, whatever greens grew near the back door. No meat in it this week. No meat in it last week. There will be meat in it on Christmas Day, God willing, if the chicken is still alive by then. The deer in the forest at the end of the lane have been the king's property under the Forest Laws since 1066. Taking one is a hanging offence. The father has never taken one. His father never took one. The institutional...
