Well, if we’re going to print new currency and just make our society worthless, I have an idea: corporate sponsorship of currency designs. What wouldn’t Disney pay to have mouse ears put on GW’s head on the $1 bill? After all, we already emptily worship these currency icons without listening to their wisdom, so why pretend they’re sacred, give in to the free-market free-for-all and have companies foot the bill for printing the money we’re giving them.
And what’s up with the state quarters, California? Your quarter sucks. It’s not that I’m saying that John Muir, Yosemite Valley, and a bird that can’t fuck or figure out not to sit on shit that kills it to save it’s species aren’t great. They’re grand. But California, where’s the transistor (it was invented here wasn’t it? They don’t really say which Bell Labs it was at)? Florida has a pirate ship (okay, Spanish galleon or whatever but how many Americans know the difference?), some palm trees and THE FUCKIN SPACE SHUTTLE TEARING ASS ACROSS THE SKY, because that is what space shuttles do, they tear ass through the sky. Transistors tear computational ass and make possible this and damned near everything else we do these days. In fact, if we didn’t have transistors we wouldn’t have the CERN LHC particle accelerator potentially tearing spacetime a new ass this spring. Space shuttle ain’t ripping no new spaceholes. California needs to recognize.