I would have preferred Paul Thomas Anderson.

Steven Spielberg has made a movie about the life of President Abraham Lincoln. I personally think they should have waited until he was dead before making the movie. Oh, I’m not taking about Lincoln. I mean Spielberg.

Some Lincoln posts:

• Lincoln actually watched John Wilkes Booth act on stage.

• A laggard police officer could have prevented Lincoln’s assassination.

• Lincoln became an ardent adopter of technology in 1862.

• Lincoln’s widow, Mary Todd, was adjudged insane.

• Houdini and Lincoln “reading together.”

• What Election Day in NYC was like in 1860.

• The Lincoln Money Shot Channel, via Conan O’Brien.

• Lincoln received a gift of an elk-horn chair

• Passages from Carl Sandburg’s bio of Lincoln’s early years.

• Thaddeus Lowe was Lincoln’s chief Civil War aeronaut.

• A look at the man who killed John Wilkes Booth.

• The last living witness of the Lincoln Assassination speaks in 1956.

• An attempt was made to rob Lincoln’s Illinois grave.

• Sarah Vowell recalls how a Booth saved the life of a Lincoln.