Redistricting

When is a country not a country? When the land is the people. I looked at a map of the world with my information technology students last night. We talked about Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries that have recently appeared in the national news of our country. We discussed why our current leader issues apologies instead of taking military action.

Political boundaries are artifices. People of all shapes and sizes populate almost every square inch of arable (and much unbearable) land.

In whose interest is keeping political boundaries the same? That's a question neither I nor my students could answer last night so we went back to how to set up and manage computer servers, all of us weighing the artificial boundaries that computer operating systems make and how we teach ourselves and others to communicate across those boundaries (e.g., Microsoft Windows and Linux hierarchical directory structures).