King County Jumps The Shark, Misses The Landing, And Lands In Mouth Of Giant Ray Harryhausen Monster

I thought this was an April Fool's joke, but I was wrong. It's just a plain old fool's joke.
From the Seattle Times...

What would an MLK County look like? Now we know. In a word, it looks like us, the 1.8 million residents of King County. The new logo's powerful black-and-white rendition of the slain civil-rights leader represents this county's greatest asset: its diversity.

Soon, citizens will see the logo on new county park signs and, for a few, on corrections-department uniforms. Over time, the King logo will appear on official stationery and on Metro buses.

And then the kicker...

it's an overdue moment worth the wait.

Logos are important symbols. They promote a visual representation of a region's greatest aspirations.

Laugh. Cry. Take a moment.

The "decades-long effort" partly results from the fact that the county was named after our thirteenth Vice-President, William Rufus deVane King. King you see was a Senator from Alabama and......insert evil,background music here....a slaveholder. Yes, he participated in the institution that dare no speak its name.


Though to be entirely honest he was pretty.......well....lame, even for a Vice-President. He never even made it to America during his term of office. See the story here.