Google Features Yosemite Birthday Graphic as Park Shuts Down

Tuesday marked the 123^rd birthday of Yosemite National Park, prompting Google to feature a graphic of the park – and, not coincidentally, to remind Americans that Yosemite is closed thanks to the government shutdown. The first results that pop up on Google are stories about the shutdown. There have been many other notable events on October 1 in American history: in 1903, the Boston Americans played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the first modern World Series; Ford marketed the Model T; Walt Disney World opened. None were considered as important as featuring Yosemite on the day of the shutdown. 

Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America” (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).