A big thing in Charleston–and to some degree the rest of the state–is shirts and bumper stickers with the state flag’s palmetto tree and crescent moon. It’s a nice symbol to me, growing up here.  A while back I noticed it showed up in a pretty wild place–the local Band of Horses used an abstractly …

Another old illustration/HUBBLE space telescope (both in public domain, one because it’s very old, the other because it’s paid for by the government) Photochop I did: