Who would have known?

I have never been a believer in the idea that one learns something new everyday, but today I did learn something that makes me feel slightly nostalgic and proud about Missouri, the place from which I was spawned.

I learned just today, during a lackluster surf on Facebook that the Missouri Clean Energy Initiative passed overwhelmingly with 66% last November. Needless to say, I am pleasantly pleased and a bit surprised.

I was ashamed only a few months ago when while watching the film Jesus Camp on local television. I saw that many extremist Christian right wingers actually teach their children that global warming is somehow not real; that it is something made up by the leftist atheists who want to destroy the very foundation that America was built on.

Watching the movie gave me the impression that all of my presumptions about my birth state were true. That many people refused to change and would rather cling to their own obstinacy then rethink what they hold to be true. When I stumble upon these little gems of information, I begin to realize that things are not always what they seem, and that I am sometimes guilty of assuming that everyone is the label they own.

I am, however, most of the time right.