To honor the Reagan stamp, what are the most craptacular stamps released?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Here's my nomination.

[mark414]

1. ayn rand

more for the irony than anything...

[fertilizeonarbusto]

2. Ayn Rand, 1999

Remember Henry James, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, William Dean Howells, Theodore Dreiser, ad infinitum, are not honored on stamps and that hack harpy is.

[sleipnir]

7. Good news! Check this out!

It's been out for nearly a year! Get out and buy them now!

Henry James ' falling out with America might be a reason why he's not on a stamp. I mean, the guy is buried in St. Paul's. Great writer, but not really an American anymore. Odd how he's the one author whom I studied in both American Lit and Brit Lit! Early work vs later work.

[sniffa]

3. reagan stamps wiLL never work correctLy

everyone spits on the wrong side.

ba dum bum

[mark414]

4. ha!

good one

[arwalden]

5. There Was That Art-Deco Eagle... It Looked Eerily Like a Nazi SS Symbol

creeped me out.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

14. This one? The Art Deco Eagle 57?

[arwalden]

18. Yep... That's The One.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

19. Yeah, that probably wasn't the best planning ever...

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Don't you have to be dead for 10 years,

before they put your likeness on a stamp, or is that another rule the neo-cons have decided to bend in order to deify St. Ronnie?

[arwalden]

8. I Think That Applies To Currency, Not Stamps.

[mark0rama]

16. 10 years for everyone but POTUS,

who are eligible immediately upon death.

[4_Legs_Good]

9. Love your robot dancing Leela!

too cool!

Not sure on craptacular stamps, though. Hmmmmmmm...

david

[Squeech]

10. Daffy Duck

Not, mind you, that I have anything against cartoons; I love 'em.

But stamps just aren't the place. I was a stamp collector when I was a kid, and I liked the fact that stamps were about great people and heroic achievements. There was a Champions of Liberty series in the '50s featuring genuine freedom fighters, people like Sun Yat-Sen and Ramon Magsaysay. There were stamps for great engineering achievements like the Hoover Dam, and scientific discoveries like the Salk vaccine against polio. That's the sort of thing that should be celebrated in the public arena.

There's also a body of law about how the Post Office isn't supposed to promote commercial concerns, and cartoon characters are marketing tools for large commercial concerns called media companies. So the Bugs and Daffy stamps were illegal as well.

My opinion, and worth every penny you paid for it!

[ThorsHammer]

11. I don't mind this one

Didn't the proceeds go to fireman's organizations to benefit the families who lost people to 9/11?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

12. My problem with it was that these "heroes" showed their true colors

when they took that sculptor to court. Talk about a unified nation, right? Screw everybody so long as I get mine.

Plus, this scene then went on to grace every neocon website.

[ThorsHammer]

13. Oh ok, I didn't hear that part

[SemiCharmedQuark]

15. They decided to make a statue based on that event.

Except instead of using the 3 guys, they were going to make one guy white, one guy black and one guy hispanic. It was going to be a metaphor for the coming together of ALL americans. But screw that. The three guys that raised the flag sued because it was them the raised the flag.

Neocons all over america sided with them saying "what next in the name of political correctness??!?!? The statue of liberty?? Mount Rushmore???"

So rather than face the lawsuit, plans for the statue were scraped and we got down to hunting some Iraqis.

[ThorsHammer]

17. Ok, that rings a bell now, I do remember that