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Black Friday and Lincoln, The Movie
Nov. 23rd, 2012 11:25 amMuch like John Scalzi, I have no desire whatsoever to go shopping today. Since Mom is still laid up with her hip (although they are moving her to a rehab place today, so improvements noted) I decided to go into work.
Speaking of work, it looks like (fingers crossed) we've filled our recent job opening. It's nice to be in a position to hire, especially in a soft economy.
Yesterday, in lieu of an after-Thanksgiving-meal nap, I decided to take in the new movie Lincoln. Although obviously set during the Civil War, it's not an action movie, instead focusing on the passing of the 13th Amendment banning slavery. The movie then cuts to the Hampton Roads Conference, a meeting held the week after the amendment passed in which the Confederates asked for peace. The movie makes clear that the reason the conference failed was Southern insistence on slavery. What it doesn't show is that Lincoln, at the conference, offered to give the South cash in compensation for freed slaves. I found the movie both historically accurate and very entertaining.
Speaking of work, it looks like (fingers crossed) we've filled our recent job opening. It's nice to be in a position to hire, especially in a soft economy.
Yesterday, in lieu of an after-Thanksgiving-meal nap, I decided to take in the new movie Lincoln. Although obviously set during the Civil War, it's not an action movie, instead focusing on the passing of the 13th Amendment banning slavery. The movie then cuts to the Hampton Roads Conference, a meeting held the week after the amendment passed in which the Confederates asked for peace. The movie makes clear that the reason the conference failed was Southern insistence on slavery. What it doesn't show is that Lincoln, at the conference, offered to give the South cash in compensation for freed slaves. I found the movie both historically accurate and very entertaining.
