New Mexico is once again shooting for the bottom of the national rankings with the worst designs for a state quarter you've ever seen. Pathetic. I'd rather have a North Dakota quarter! Surely a state with 400 years of recorded history, thousands of years of archaeology, 13,000-foot mountains, a wide selection of blasted wastelands and numerous races sharing an uneasy coexistance can come up with something vaguely interesting? Well, someone did. Here's my favorite of the proposed designs:

New Mexico, exporting useful products since 1945! It'll never be accepted, though; we'll be stuck with yet another wretched Zia symbol to remind us that a state governed by a presidential aspirant is not allowed to be interesting.

Remarkably, the comment thread to the New Mexican article has some pretty decent examples of New Mexican wit: "I was leaning towards it saying 'Land of Flea - Home of the Plague'" "I thought it was supposed to be two dimes and a nickle taped together."

Hat tip to Jack, who is generally too harried for blogging.