Nice of them to tell us

[avram]

Years ago, a friend told me that housing developments are named after whatever was destroyed to build them. If you see a tract called “Shady Oaks”, you can be sure they tore the oaks down, and “Crystal Brook” means the brook‘s been filled in and paved over.

I guess that’s related to the more general tendency to name things after people who’ve died, like JFK Airport in New York, just one of a great many things named or renamed shortly after President Kennedy was assassinated. And I guess that means the cabal of conservatives trying to get things named after President Reagan must just be acknowledging that the old Gipper’s as good as dead, it’s just his body that hasn’t caught on to the fact.

So when I noticed that Newark Airport had been renamed Newark Liberty Airport, well, I guess we’ve all suspected for a while now.