Reprinted from Newsweek, May 22, 1995 POSTAGE-STAMP POLITICS U.S. POST MODERNISM If the idea of licking the back of the new Richard Nixon stamp leaves you cold, consider Timothy McVeigh on an envelope. For about a dollar, you can stick an image of the Oklahoma City bombing suspect anywhere you like. It's one of the dozens of collectible postage look-alikes that artist Cati Laport churns out just hours after news events inspire her to illustrate how messed up she thinks America is. (On O.J.'s arrest, she issued a Ford Bronco stamp. After the Waco disaster, a flaming building.) Trying to use one as actual postage could get you a $300 fine from the U.S. Postal Service. But at a few hip bars in New York, it'll get you a beer. (back to article listings)