Waltopia

Via rednikki, I ran across "Walt's Last Film", a 24-minute video of Walt Disney shortly before his death in 1966 describing his plans for EPCOT. Before it became just another theme park, it was intended to be an actual working city of 20,000 residents: "an Experimental Prototype Community that will always be in the state of becoming. It will never cease to be a living blueprint of the future where people actually live a life they can’t find anyplace else in the world." The Disney company did eventually build a town in 1996, Celebration, Florida, but it looks depressingly mundane compared to Walt's utopian vision.

Godlessness in the Capitol

US Representative Pete Stark says he is "a Unitarian who does not believe in a Supreme Being", making him the first elected official at the national level to come out of that particular closet. The Secular Coalition for America has been on a campaign to get elected officials to publicly identify themselves as "atheist, agnostic, humanist or any other kind of nontheist", but so far only three others have: "Terry S. Doran, president of the School Board in Berkeley, Calif.; Nancy Glista on the School Committee in Franklin, Maine; and Michael Cerone, a Town Meeting Member from Arlington, Mass." (Go Arlington!)

Edit: I forgot to say, Stark represents California's 13th district, south of Oakland.