Comments on Letter from Abidjan

I wonder if over there the locals have any desire to change the name of their nation so it is not the name of the product they used to transfer to the global capitalist system?

There isn't a Gold Coast anymore, nor a .......

Gee, I didn't know you could drop off your absentee ballot at the embassy. Now I wish I had my ballot sent to me rather than just use the emergency ballot.