Looking at the new dollar coin, I see that the word Liberty does not appear. The Statue of Liberty was deemed enough of Liberty.

I was told, once, that U.S. coinage was originally designed to have a representation of Liberty on one side. So we saw a lot of Indians (in a sort of American irony, I guess) and a lot of classical androgynous represenations on our coinage.

And then the presidents took over.

My thought was that a dead president wasn't that bad of a representation of liberty; live ones, though, wouldn't work at all.

But how much better would it be were it not a bust of a president presented, but a head of a president, bleeding on a pike?

(Perhaps I'm in such a bloody turn of mind because a friend of mine just noticed that we've been seeing a lot of Assassination Movies recently!)

An easy way to increase your investment, fifty-fold . . . if you are lucky enough to find a godless dollar!

I got a roll of the new Washington dollars at the bank, the other day, but they were not, alas, the atheist variety.