This isn't a major news piece, but I don't know where else to put it, so it gets its own thread.

Mississippi Rep. Steve Holland has introduced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

So abysmally stupid. Hey, maybe we should rename the Atlantic Ocean the "Liquid Freedom Expanse," and maybe the Mississippi river should be called "Flowing Patriot Waterway."

Seriously, there's something very Stalinist about these attempts to rename colloquial objects and geographies. It's head-slappingly stupid, but it's also creepy.