Oh my.
Isn't that rather monarchial?
I've always been leery about, in a republic, naming things for still-living people.
It's perfectly fine and acceptable in non-republics, putting still-living people on coins and stamps and naming things and places after them, but it's not okay in our sort of system and society.
In New Jersey, there was some highway system named for Brendan Byrne when he was still living, and still governor of that state. The system was named for him before he got into all sorts of trouble for corruption.
And look at the highway systems around Chicago.
It's the law--a perfectly good republican (small "r") law--that makes it not possible to put the image or name of a still-living person on U.S. coins and postage stamps; I think it should be extended to cover all tangible things.
I know, I know; sign-makers in West Virginia would be doing overtime for years, changing names of things and places there, but it's good for the economy and good for our system of ostensible egalitarianism.
