A blast from the past. Recently there was a contraversy in Washington state regarding the Jefferson Davis Highway. Usual arguments, blah blah blah. However, there was this gem of an editorial in the Seattle Times. Great opening: "JEFFERSON Davis was not somebody who ought to be celebrated by the state of Washington. He was a rebel, a Southerner and the president of a republic that championed slavery. Washingtonians were none of those things." See any irony there?