When Postage Stamps Are Too Dangerous for Children’s Eyes
” Courtesy of Walter Olson of the Cato Institute and Overlawyered comes this silly piece of news regarding a series of postage stamps meant to commemorate first lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” youth anti-obesity program. The existence of the postage stamps in the first place is not the silly news, though it certainly is silly. No, the United States Postal Service (heavily in debt, mind you) is destroying the entire run of stamps because some of the activities illustrated on them have been deemed unsafe:
The stamps in question depicted children performing a cannonball dive, skateboarding
without kneepads, and doing a headstand without a helmet “
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