Outrage!

Call Hannity, Medved, Hewitt, Prager, O'Reilly, Limbaugh (at rehab), Horowitz, Sullivan, Liddy, North, Savage, and all the other right-wingers. Take a look at the new nickels that are scheduled for introduction next year. In early 2004 the reverse will celebrate the Louisiana Purchase; later that year a different reverse will celebrate the Lewis and Clark expedition. Here's the side for the Louisiana Purchase:

What's the problem?

The pipe. It looks like something Tommy Chong got thrown in the slammer for. What kind of message is this sending our children?

ADDENDUM: We initially thought that one of the hands depicted was French, but it turns out that the one on the left symbolizes the American government and the one on the right symbolizes the Native American chieftains.

posted by Quiddity at 11/07/2003 10:02:00 AM