Random Commentary for 20 July 2010

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Re: New Mexico’s Taxpayer-Funded Monuments to Sitting Elected Officials —
   

   This is just like what happened with Robert Byrd in West Virginia (Google search for “named after Robert C. Byrd”). And look how George the Younger named the U.S. Navy’s latest aircraft carrier after Bush the Elder.

   I propose Constitutional amendments, at both the federal and state levels, to the effect of that no item of public property (buildings, public roads, vehicles, ships, aircraft, spacecraft, rifles, pistols — anything paid for from the public purse) shall be named after any living person, and that any all proposals to name publicly-owned items after people shall be voted upon by the public as a whole.

NOTES

1. Reposted —
   1. Personal blogs and micro-blogs — Xanga