I think you've hit upon a good idea. By the time the ACLU gets finished I suspect the name California will have to go anyway. Go ahead and do it now.

A bigger canvas.

http://www.ttsw.com/rushmoreisfull.html

While I love the idea of renaming California (how people would squeal!) I don't think it's likely to happen; renaming Cape Canaveral to honor John Kennedy seems less controversial than the Reagan/California thing, and enough complained for THAT to get overturned. Plus, if it did happen you can only imagine the politicians who would squawk for their own territory: Arkansas would become Clintonia, Bob Dornan's hometown would now be B-1, and everything in West Virginia not named after Robert Byrd would become so.

What I would like is for the California state quarter to picture Reagan, and to identify only as Ronaldus Magnus, as Rush puts it. Either that, or rename some major interstate highway (perhaps one that goes through both red and blue states) as Reagan's Way.

That provides some interesting pop culture twists...

"Reaganfornication" (Wrong president.)
"I Wish They All Could Be Reagan Girls" (Ain't it the truth)
"Reagan Dreaming"

Of course, the idea of a college entitled "The University of Reagan-Berkley" means that it is absolutely necessary that this happens.

David: Now I'm gonna cry.

The best suggestion I've seen is to replace Grant on the $50 bill. He was a pretty bad president after all (though a fine general).

Keep Grant on the fifty - I think it's that two bills (three pieces of money, if you count the Lincoln penny) honor the Civil War. If anything, bring back the $500 bill (McKinley? Why?) or the $1000 (Cleveland - ditto) and put Reagan on THAT, because his policies let you earn more of those.

I also noted that the people on coinage are mostly Democrats and the people on bills are mostly Republicans/Federalists - why escapes me, but it's fun to speculate.

Keep Grant on the fifty - I think it's that two bills (three pieces of money, if you count the Lincoln penny) honor the Civil War. If anything, bring back the $500 bill (McKinley? Why?) or the $1000 (Cleveland - ditto) and put Reagan on THAT, because his policies let you earn more of those.

I also note that the people on coinage are mostly Democrats and the people on bills are mostly Republicans/Federalists - why escapes me, but it's fun to speculate.

I am opposed to idolatry, so I say give it a rest for a few years. As far as coins go I am in favor scraping the current set and developping a new set 5 and 25 cent 1 and 5 dollars. Indian heads, traditional (Sacagewaw was ugly), and native mega fauna tails -- Bison, Gators, Big Horns, Bald Eagles.

A new set of Bills also. $20, 100, 500, 1000.
Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson and Lincoln

Timothy -- I had not thought about the University of Reagan-Berkley. You're right. That must happen.

Orrin, put me in touch with your dealer. That is some hard-core bad-ass stone-cold brain-cell-massacring testicle-shrinking crack you must be smoking.

Some body called in to one of the radio shows to put Reagan on a new $40 bill.

Why a $40 bill? the host asked.

Because he was the 40th president!

And the caller had a heavy accent, which somehow struck me as - being American.

California? Tish, why stop there?

You should rename the moon!

Call it 'the Reagan'... as in "there's a lovely full Reagan tonight, isn't there dear?"

You own it, after all. Got a flag in it and everything.

David Cohen --

The idea of a Ronald Reagan University was raised in late April. Nancy Reagan vetoed the idea two days later.

The '-Berkley' was not part of the proposal and the school was to be built outside Denver, CO.

Brit: Go to the link in the second comment.

Mr. Erinjeri: Orrin doesn't deserve the blame for this suggestion. Your reaction, however, doesn't make the idea less appealing.

Ah well. Fools seldom differ, they say.

I definitely think you'll probably eventually
see some counties in various states especially
ones with weird Indian names or ones named after
people that nobody remembers take on the Reagan
name.

Name the first permanent space colony "Reaganopolis." With all the solar panels, it'll be a shining city. Just make sure and put it on a hill.

I'll get really scared if I start seeing busts
of Reagan wearing a Toga and a laurel wreath
start popping up, although maybe he could be
sculpted in that suit of armor like Oliver Cromwell and stuck on the mall?

Just slap his name on a new aircraft carrier. That should be fine until something new opens up. But then again, I thought it obscene that we started naming buildings and airports after someone who was still alive at the time.

I find it very insulting to other great Americans that simply because Reagan is the newest visitor to the unknown country that his name should replace theirs. With that kind of mentality, we just have to wait for the next great President and we can remove Reagan from everything we put him on. And that guy will stay until the next one comes. Why don't we just change Lincoln's head to Reagan's in the Lincoln Memorial.

Do we really want a country where our heritage is shows only people who lived in recent memory?

There is an aircraft carrier named the USS Ronald Reagan. If I were to have something named after me, an aircraft carrier would be the coolest thing. Much better than an interstate highway.

I am against re-naming geography after dead people. I went back to RI a few years ago, and was upset to find that one of my favorite beaches as a boy was renamed "Gov. Wheeler beach". Geography will outlive us all, and should have permanent names. Renaming man-made things is more appropriate.

Here in the Upper Left Washington, about twenty years ago the County Council "officially" renamed King County from Rufus D. King, former Vice President of the U.S, to Martin L. King, Jr.

Here's a list of places with "Reagan" already in the name.

http://www.geodata.gov/gos

Brit:

It's a toss-up as to who will own the Moon, the US or China.

Right now, the betting has to favour the US, but China's got a legitimate chance.

"Right now, the betting has to favour the US, but China's got a legitimate chance"

Not according to oj,tho he never explains why.

Put him on the $3

Harry: We all steal, but you owe yourself better than stealing from Jimmy Breslin.

The best idea I have heard so far was to start a new program to privatize/downsize the Federal government and name THAT after Reagan.

We could use a replacement for "he Old Man on the Moutain" here in NH. Now that would be cool.

But we'd have to hurry because we're sliding left demographically because of immigrants from the South.

Perhaps that's why "The Old man" couldn't hang on any longer.