How about the next time we name a bridge we try a different sort of name.

As you know we love to name bridges after politicians. We name highways after them. Along with parks and buildings and airports.

Every time you turn around you run into the Senator Joe Bloggs Interstate. Or plaza. Or the Mayor Smith Parking Garage. Or the Alderman Jones Cafeteria and Recycling Center.

You cannot make your way through West Virginia without coming across  dozens of things named after Senator Byrd, now deceased. Before he died he was working on changing the name of his state to his.

I object. Please don’t call me petty. Please don’t think me ungrateful for the work politicians do for us. And don’t say that if that office building was named for a politician I voted for I might be in favor.

I object to naming all this stuff for politicians for a simple reason. It is the same reason a famous owner of a pro football team objected to a request from his best linebacker. The two had settled on the linebacker’s $2 million salary. Then the linebacker asked for a $10,000 bonus every time he sacked the quarterback.