Two passports -- one new, the other old -- arrived in the mail the other day. The new, with its tough, blue covers and pristine, rigid pages that still resist my prying fingers is a stark contrast to the ink-stained, mud-smeared epic next to it, now punctured by the passport agency and rendered obsolete by the State Department.
Blogger C.G.P. Grey put together a map of the United States listing passport holders per capita by state. States on, or close to the coasts tend t...