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Stop trying to conform. Go back to your roots with the one and only Bazooka Joe. Mints, shmints; cinnaburst, minnamurst. What's weaker than a sudden explosion of mock maturity than the youngster who without warning switches from bubble gum to mint? Really, it's all about the roots. Who was there in elementary school and junior high? Not the Wrigley's twins, not any strangely favored lifesaver, not any "curiously strong" mint. It was, always has been, and always will be good old Joe, with a comic wrap to keep that smile on your face and a familiar flavor...
Sacajawea "was simply a woman of exemplary physical courage and stamina," the director of the Mint, Philip N. Diehl, explains on the Web site, "who through a remarkable confluence of circumstances contributed to the success of one of the greatest American adventure...
...most distasteful part of this episode may be the voting now taking place on the Web. Because no one knows what Sacajawea looked like, the Mint consulted 300 people-historians, artists, coin collectors and representatives of American Indian organizations-to choose the best among more than 120 designs. The top 13 are now up for the public's scrutiny and comment...
...Mint apparently thinks it's doing us a great service. "Rarely, if ever, in the history of the nation's coinage has the public played such an important role in the design of a new circulating coin," the Web page brags momentously. "Please consider each choice not only as a potential coin design...but also as a work of art that will exist in the public consciousness for hundreds of years...
...merely reinforcing our indifference and self-glorification. Until we more honestly and forthrightly deal with the damage our nation has wrought on an entire continent of people-in our schools, in our politics and in our hearts and minds-it is inescapably hypocritical to use Sacajawea as, in the Mint's words, "an allegorical representation of Liberty...