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It's back! I hope all is well with you, Donnie. I hope the results of the UK-Louisville game wasn't too much of a downer. Impressive that such low seeds got into the championship game, though.
Well, a lot of memories on that site. It went on for a while – perhaps 7 years or so? Coincidentally, you cut it off right as Ski and I were debating a point.
The photo of the kissing sailor is more famous, so I think there's more celebrity attached to it, and people want to find out who the people are. The photo above, however, is more about the serious contemplation of the bleak side of war, so there's not that same element of celebrity. Personally, I think both sides of historical research have value: there's the side of analyzing the larger issues of history, and then there's the side of getting to the bottom to uncover the fine details. The latter can actually help inform us about the former, but the latter can also lead us to nitpick over unimportant minutiae.
I suppose it's possible, based on the picture. Still, the two don't appear completely similar, IMO. You are right, though – it doesn't ultimately matter since the photo has a symbolic or representational value.
A couple of days ago, I made a new personal bench press – higher than I was able to do in college. I had thought that wouldn't surpass what I could do back then, but my workouts in the past year has shown me that I could.
The conventional story that he caught a cold/pneumonia based on a long, outdoor inaugural address seems quaint, but I wonder whether someone can actually catch a cold by being outside in the cold for too long. Hypothermia, yes, but a virus – does not seem plausible (unless the cold weather weakened his immune system).
Um, Aeth, as Scout noted, it's the B-Boy invading the turf of a seventeenth-century Dutch house party….and no, I don't have that one hanging in my kitchen. But perhaps this one….?A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884
Yes, I agree with you. I thought it was called the Great Eight. I guess I haven't been paying enough attention to hear that it was changed to the Elite Eight. Who knows? The change may have been made by CBS Sports, which controls the television rights to the games. Apparently, other TV stations can't even show highlights until the day after the game(!).
I shake my head when I read liberal commentary (like on that site), which starts: “On the plus side, his policies were progressive by modern standards….”. Then they go on to describe Warren G Harding in words that are similar to words that could describe our current POTUS.Also, the words used to describe James Buchanan don't actually sound that bad in principle (I'm not saying he wasn't a bad president; simply that they didn't make a case for it in what they wrote).Oh, and that picture of Andrew Johnson tells me that Tommy Lee Jones could portray him in a movie. Lookalikes!
