The House has rejected an attempt to name a post office after a leftist politician in Berkeley (see the second item here). All to the good, except that no one’s asking why we name federal facilities after living people at all. CIA headquarters is now the George Bush Center for Intelligence, there’s a Gerald Ford House Office Building, a Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse, Ted Stevens International Airport, Bud Shuster Highway, J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, and, if the ridiculous transportation bill survives unscathed, Alaska’s Don Young Bridge to Nowhere. Pork is one thing, but this spreading practice is positively pharaonic. We have strict rules against representing living people on stamps or currency, and those limits urgently need to be extended to federal facilities of all kinds.