On December 15, 1939, "Gone With the Wind" premiered at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

[Aristus]

1. The racist dickheads of Georgia refused to allow Hattie McDaniel into the theater for the premier.

Proving inarguably, seventy-five years after the fact, General Sherman's justification for his total-war, scorched-earth policy in Georgia during the Civil War. if only he had prohibited the rebuilding of Atlanta after having burned it down.

Lincoln's 'with malice toward none' post-war ideal was certainly laudable. But I think if we had hanged eighty or ninety slave-owners and/or Confederate generals during Reconstruction, the KKK and other terrorist groups might never have progressed beyond a group of redneck douchebags pissing and moaning around a pot-bellied stove.