Map of redrawn congressional districts does a perfect job of not showing what district I live in

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As a public service to get readers in the holiday cheer, the morning paper ran a huge package today explaining just what the gerrymandered congressional districts will mean for Berks...or will not mean since local pols and others disagree and do not know.

And how sweet is this: The package includes a handy two-page map showing exactly which House district your house now falls in...or maybe not, since my neighborhood in Lower Alsace looks to be carved up between the 6th and 16th District.

That means the person living across the street may qualify for pork money to build a swimming pool to heat his home with solar power while we'll get poo-poo from Washington. I'm not even sure which of the four GOP Congressmen I'm supposed to hate now.

Among all the material the Eagle shoveled on its pages, one thing it did not include is a pull-out identifying each congressman by name and district. To find that out, readers need to burrow within the text.

By the way, "pull-out" is a journalistic term referring to short material that runs separate from the main article, for ease of access. It does not refer to Dan Kelly pulling anything out. That you do not want to see.