With Sarah Palin's alleged lack of knowledge about whether Africa is a continent or country, some accuse the news outlets of nitpicking. You know, because it wouldn't really matter if a world leader didn't know what the world actually looked like.
Yet for me, what's just as troubling is the Palin-type philosophy on travel that says it's somehow pretentious to leave one's corner of the world -- and elitist to think there may be something out there beyond our own...
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