When Marin County, Calif., decided to name a new road after Sir Francis Drake, it didn't think much of the fact that the 19th-century aviator was a native of the area.
"In Solomonic wisdom, decided to'split the baby,'" writes Michael Hiltzik in the Marin Independent Journal.
The road will instead be known as Coast Miwok Indigenous Boulevard.
Hiltzik calls it a "clumsy and clueless compromise" that shows "the power of a bad idea inevitability manifests in a clumsy and clueless compromise."
It's not the first time Drake has been the subject of controversy.
In fact, he's the subject of a documentary that's just been released.
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