Have you seen Al Franken draw the United States from memory?
That performance has inspired a contest:
It’s good to see a little uplifting, humorous news from Alaska’s Senate delegation. According to Politico’s “Click,” in an effort to encourage American students to pay more attention to geography, National Geographic magazine sent out letters to the members of the U.S. Senate asking them to draw a map of their home state “from memory,” indicate three places on the map that are significant to them, and briefly tell why. The challenge is based on Sen. Al Franken’s (D-Minn.) famous ability to draw the Lower 48’s coastline from memory. One Senator from Oregon seemed to relish the fact that Sen. Mark Begich has a tough job ahead, and joshed that the Senate is eagerly waiting to see if he can draw all the Aleutian Islands accurately. Begich’s office retorted that National Geographic’s new, educational video game, “The Alcan Trail” will soon surpass the popularity of the classic game “The Oregon Trail.”
It will be tough for Mark Udall and Michael Bennet.
