Topic 2!

After stuffing myself with turkey, ham, potatoes, corn, gravy, biscuits, pie, crackers, and lord even knows what else, I’m hardly mentally agile enough to complete a decent blog today. I should be on the couch dozing through Pirates of the Caribbean right now. But! I said I would find a topic for this week, so I shall.

Obviously, I should pick a topic dealing something with the new year, especially after the preceding posts from Nick. Resolutions or predictions or a look back on last year or something. But I’m not going to do that, mostly because I didn’t think of that last week when I was deciding on a topic. We can do that next week.

This week’s topic (which I admittedly stole from my friend David's blog) is stamps.

Here is a list of the expected commemorative stamps for 2007 as announced by the US Postal Service. I think USPS stamps should celebrate things truly American (and that includes honoring other cultures/countries since we all came from somewhere else) as well as things benign enough for people all over this diverse country to buy and use. Here are some highlights from the extensive list:
Ella Fitzgerald
International Polar Year
James Stewart
Marvel Comic Book Heroes
Louis Comfort Tiffany
The Art of Disney: Magic
Jury Duty
Silver Coffeepot

Silly as it sounds, I’m all for having entertainers represent our country, especially since politicians do such a terrible job. Sure, Ella was probably on coke or heroine, and I don’t know of any Jimmy Stewart scandals, but I’m sure there must be one or two. But c’mon… even Bing Crosby beat his wife and kids, but we still hear his voice and think of Christmas. What's more Christmas-y than listening to White Christmas while remembering why you moved away from home? Let Angelina Jolie and Shirley Temple represent me—not anyone in the current administration please. I hold superheroes in this same regard.

I did a quick google search on International Polar Year (IPY for those in the know) and found this. This seems to be a project for researchers to gather more information about global warming! It’s official: global warming has become common sense enough for the post office to print a stamp about it. Now we just need those idiots in the GOP (who, for whatever bullshit reason, pretend that this isn’t happening or is no big deal) to simply mail a letter overseas and realize that the rest of the world, including most Americans, see this as a major problem.

A silver coffeepot? This is the one that really threw me off. I mean, that’s really non-offensive, but… why? I’m going to have to see this one to voice an opinion.