"No, I don't know anyone from Puerto Rico. Why do you ask?"
We get some weird stuff in the mail at work. Today it's a link to the website of Guyana, USA!, which claims to be a Guyanese political party. It suggests Guyana should become a US state, commonwealth, or territory. It would be called American Guyana (remember, it was once British Guiana) and the flag's colors would be changed to red, white and blue while its pattern would remain the same. The site claims there's only 650,000 people left in Guyana and just about all of them have applied for US citizenship. (I have no idea how bogus this claim is.) So, what do we chalk this one up to? The inexorable march of globalization? Why get shafted by NAFTA and GATT? If you can't beat the US, join it! Posted by Gus at August 12, 2002 12:10 PM