Who Does — and Doesn't — Get Featured on Blue Highway Exit Signs?

There's stiff competition to be featured on one of those squares on your typical blue highway sign. DANIEL BARCELONA/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/(CC BY 3.0)
If you've ever driven on an American highway you know them: They're the big blue signs near interstate exits showing travelers the nearest gas, food and hotel or motel options. They're officially called "interstate logo signs" or "specific service signs."

But the places featured are not random. Scoring a spot...

It has come to our attention that the US government has given up what is possibly one of their most high profiled prisoners in exchange for what was possibly one of Russia's lowest profile prisoners, the WNBA player Brittney Griner, who was detained earlier this year for possession of hash oil (basically she brought drugs into another country like a fucking idiot). Listed below are 3 people who remain in Russia to this day who are FAR MORE DESERVING OF A RELEASE than some drug smuggling bimbo....

_{This Oct. 29, 2021, photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Frederick Woods.
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP
By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press}
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 — in what a prosecutor called "the largest mass kidnapping in U.S. history" — is being...