And another thing …

New Hampshire Gov. Jean Shaheen says a 1761 map she unearthed while traveling in England is proof positive Ye Olde Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in her state, not ours. Nice try, Mum, but we’ll stick with our 1997 Rand McNally. Good luck with that jet lag.

Another governor making ours look like a keeper is Minnesota’s Arne Carlson, who recently endorsed the candidacy of his ex-wife, Barbara, for mayor of Minneapolis. This after she stabbed him with a ball-point pen, whacked him over the head with a frying pan and wrote a tell-all book describing his connubial performance in X-rated detail. Now she’s famous as a talk radio host who had the station’s call letters tattooed on her rump during a broadcast. Likewise willing to turn the other cheek, the governor says his classy ex now is “more mature, introspective, with a better grasp on the issues.” And, we suspect, on a bigger skillet.

Here at home, Gov. Angus King enjoys sky-high approval ratings, but that didn’t stop Rep. Henry Joy from being the first to challenge his re-election bid. Joy, of course, is the Aroostook Republican who last year led a spectacularly unsuccessful effort to split Maine into two states. If you can’t unjoin `em, beat `em.

You know that $43 million Route 1 bypass Maine taxpayers built around Brunswick to relieve summertime congestion? Now, just weeks before it opens, Brunswick says it doesn’t want any signs marking the bypass exit — bumper-to-bumper tourism rings their cash registers. Meanwhile, neighboring Topsham insists on signs — they spent the last couple of years cluttering up the bypass route with commercial development. They want a traffic jam, too. To break this impasse on the Androscoggin, how about if both towns just move their business districts to the breakdown lane of the Maine Turnpike and give us our $43 million back?

The National Park Service, already under fire for the 42 staff homes it built at Grand Canyon and Yosemite at $500,000 a pop, really stepped in it with that $330,000 outhouse at the Delaware Water Gap wildlife reserve. High-priced architects, $72 per gallon custom paint, wildflower seed at $720 a pound — and they still can’t get Smokey Bear to put the seat back down.