Get a name and stick with it.

I hate when people rename well known things or places for no good reason. I hate how they cloak it in patriotism or national pride when it has nothing to do with it especially if the ‘honor’ they are trying to give a dead guy actually just winds up becoming a name that people will curse.


Why rename the triborough RFK Bridge? Is there any honor in having a crossway with $5 tolls and crawling traffic named after you? Plus it cost $4 million dollars to replace all the signs

Adding 'Liberty' to a place as miserable as Newark Airport does nothing to spread the love of Democracy. There isn’t a more miserable place on earth than Newark Airport and the last thing I think about is Liberty as I get strip-searched to make sure that my tube of toothpaste isn’t over 10 ounces.

What honor did a great man like Jackie Robinson get by getting some 5 mile stretch of garbage-covered Interboro Highway get? Some kids will associate a great man only with traffic because local TV and Radio reporting from a helicopter will just say things like “the Jackie Robinson is backed up for 4 miles”

The next thing they are going to do is change the name of the Holland tunnel to the Freedom Tunnel when the entire experience feels claustrophobic or they will rename the Big-Dig the Henry Paulson experience.

I did appreciate that California voted on changing a garbage dump to the George W. Bush Garbage Dump or something.