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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

What's in a name?

Sigh:
The bucolic views of Mount Diablo have created a living hell for Art Mijares.

The Oakley man, who can see Contra Costa's highest peak from his living room, is on a campaign to rid the mountain of the name it has held for 164 years, because diablo means devil in Spanish.

"This is not a hoax, it's a God thing," Mijares said. "Our main icon is named after the devil."

Initally, Mijares wanted to name the peak Mount Reagan, but was denied because Reagan has not been dead for five years.

No one in the area seems to agree with Mijares. But perhaps he's on to something. Perhaps we should remove all references to the devil or "diablo" from our language. Then the whole evil word will be forgotten forever, and we will never have to worry about him again. It's so foolproof, I wonder why no one has thought of it before.