Holy Shit.

Its finally happened.  I started getting a bad feeling when corporate sponsors started not just advertising at sporting events, but buying the naming rights, and the events themselves.  Soon companies were looking for opportunities to buy anything they could get their hands on and rename.

Well now even the government is apparently for sale; and not just the traditional back-room-lobbyist-for-sale we're used to.  20th century Fox has commissioned a special edition US quarter that is legal tender.  It has the Silver Surfer on the back and lists the Fantastic Four movie website.  You read that right, advertising on our money.  How perverse is that?

I like the Silver Surfer and everything, but this gives me the jibblies.  How long before I see the Exxon-Mobile Presidential motorcade or the Mountain Dew Supreme Court?

• Silver Surfer Quarters - Marvel.com news