Recently I received some of the new $5 Fed fiat paper. With the huge, cartoonish "5" and purple picture of Abe, they are -- appropriately enough -- beginning to look like play money. But, aside from their plummeting purchasing power, here is what is alarming: Lincoln is prettied up even more than usual, in a further rewriting of history. Of course, he is the founder of the regime, and the first presidential beneficiary of retouching via Union photog Matthew Brady, but still, this particular redo has a stalinoid stench to it.