The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library is now open for business in Springfield, Illinois. Here's an article about the news, the library's website, and a webcam view. (Some links from Bookslut.)
In addition to the library, old Abe's been pretty busy lending his image to the efforts of tort reformers hoping to influence the coming elections. Here in downstate Illinois, we've been seeing pictures of Lincoln all over the place. One ad from the Illinois Chamber of Commerce carries this headline: "Honest Abe Would Be Ashamed: The Land of Lincoln Has Become the Land of Lawsuits."
You can see the complete ad here (pdf). Personally, I'm looking forward to the day when Lincoln gets back into the library where he belongs.
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No comments yet today, and it's past 9 PM. Geez, did Scoplaw and I break your Comment Section with our great haiku-mastery debate? Or did you turn it off in disgust like Jeralyn at TalkLeft?
Granny D got it right, I guess: "I love this blog world--you make a general statement and then some people write a book for you about it."
Maybe it's just Kegger Day for all the 20-somethings. Even Fed84 is boycotting today. Mea culpa, Lincolnesque One.
Posted by: David Giacalone | October 19, 2004 at 08:24 PM
David: Kegger Day is Thursday. You didn't get your invitation?
Federalist No. 84 will be here tomorrow.
Posted by: Evan | October 19, 2004 at 09:22 PM
Nope. No invitation. Don't you mean "Kegger Day starts on Thursday"? Any malt in Geritol?
Is Wednesday "Gallo Dago-Red Wine Day"? (a little gallows humor for you prosectors and criminal lawyers)
Is ol' Eighty-Four your Guest Writer, tomorrow? Don't tell me. Let me be surprised.
Posted by: David Giacalone | October 19, 2004 at 10:16 PM