The extremely funny and intelligent Sarah Vowell, author of The Wordy Shipmates and frequent contributor to This American Life, has gotten herself involved in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations-gate (kind of works). She does this as any self-avowed nerd might by writing a New York Times Op-Ed piece. She seems to be against the name change. Check out the article here. Also, although everyone in Providence probably knows what it means, Sarah goes over the origin of the phrase “What Cheer?”

I was checking out the old Internet today and I made my way to a weblog that rhymes with duffington coast. Right square in the middle of their politics page I noticed that Rhode Island had an article written about it. Apparently the Rhode Island House on Thursday voted on a referendum on taking the “and Providence Plantations” out of “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”. It made it through the Senate on Friday. I am going to stay out of the PC/tradition argument, but since we have until 2010 for both sides to make their all too predictable cases about the situation, it will certainly be interesting to watch.

Here is the Projo article.