The George W. Bush Sewage Plant
By Ron Beasley
How do we honor George W. Bush and best remember his presidency?
An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
SAN FRANCISCO — Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital (and a state, too). But President Bush may soon be the sole president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom.
From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
The plan, naturally hatched in a bar, would place a vote on the November ballot to provide “an appropriate honor for a truly unique president.”
Supporters say that they have plenty of signatures to qualify the initiative and that the renaming would fit in a long and proud American tradition of poking political figures in the eye.
“Most politicians tend to be narcissistic and egomaniacs,” said Brian McConnell, an organizer who regularly suits up as Uncle Sam to solicit signatures. “So it is important for satirists to help define their history rather than letting them define their own history.”
I would also like to suggest the Richard B. Cheney Memorial Rendering Plant.
The shit stops here...
Well, someone had to say it!
Posted by: Jim Et Al | June 25, 2008 at 11:49 PM
Sorry to have to say this, but this renaming a sewage plant for the president suggestion, along with the readers' comments it has engendered, represents a perfect example of why I decided to leave the Bay Area a while back after living there for 35 years. There are just too many entirely wrong-headed people there who think they're so, so clever when really they're just, sorry again but there's no other word for it, stupid. And smug. And childish. And at times vicious in an entirely cowardly way. It's really sad to remember what an anazing, classy place San Francisco once was, a place where people like these wouldn't be welcome or tolerated, let alone encouraged and admired. Sad, sad, sad. I feel bad for the people who are still stuck there and have to endure this nonsense every day.
Posted by: ExSanFranciscan | June 26, 2008 at 01:08 AM