The War Between The States

All innocently, I went looking for this term after watching the movie "Lincoln".

Growing up in the 60's, I recalled that people used this phrase to refer to the war of the 1860's.  But I hadn't heard it used for a long time.

Turns out it's a loaded expression, a distinction with a difference.  A refusal to call that war a "civil" war is very important to some people.

http://www.ncwbts150.com/index.php

Would you think that, more than 150 years later, we would be willing to just let it go?  Nope.

As Faulkner said, the past isn't forgotten.  It isn't even past.

Music blog

Type 'music blog' into google search sometime.

An hour ago it returned 1,700,000,000 hits.  Yes, I couldn't believe it either, so I looked it up.  That's one billion, 700 million hits.

I just looked again.  It returned 1,710,000,000 hits.  10 million more than an hour ago.

And I thought I'd go read a few music blogs, get an idea what was going on there.  Hmmm.