Happy Bicentennial Birthday Abe!

Contestant #16: Abe Lincoln
via WhiteHouse.Gov
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A Gratuitous Example of Self-Restraint and Self-Censorship

The original title of today's blog entry over at the werk site was "Seriously -- You Look Like You Haven't Aged in Years"

Today is the Bicentennial Birthday of Honest Abe. Given that Where I Werk publishes a great deal of material on the US Civil War, Abe is something of a Mover and a Shaker for us. And because werk has been a non-stop hit-the-ground-running-and-hope-to-keep-up-so-I-don't-get-run-over for the past two or three (or four?) weeks, my idea of doing a week of Abe-related blog entries was cut down to stopping everything and making sure I at least got and entry out today.

I chose my original title because Abe Lincoln has *always* looked old to me. This isn't because I've only seen photos of him like the one above, either. Even the Young Abe drawings and photographs look like a slightly less wrinkly version of him as an old, old man.

Now I know a Civil War and a cabinet full of back-stabbing politicians, not to mention a wife who really needed a nice, long stay down the road at St. Elizabeth's Hospital and having your favorite son die while in office would age a guy. Still, I really don't think he'd look all that much older if he'd lived to see his 200th birthday.

And, yet it occurred to me that I may, in fact, be the only one to hold these thoughts to be self-evident. Explaining them would, perhaps, make for entertaining reading, but that's what I have my own personal blog for.

So I exercised another degree of self-restraint and dulled out the blog entry.

And posted all of this here instead.

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