THOUGHTFUL THURSDAYS: PRESIDENTS' 'STACHES

I worked on a crossword puzzle today that had the clue "Last Mustached US President." The answer was of course "Taft." Pretty amazing that mustaches have grown so unpopular since then. Plenty of actors still wear the mustache or at least the mustache/beard combo. In the "upstanding citizen" sphere however, mustaches are frowned upon (pun intended). Even newscasters (Wolf Blitzer aside) are facially bald.

It seems entirely plausible in 2008 that we'll have a Black president before we'll have another mustached president.

Who can name the presidents who've had mustaches? Using my good pal Wikipedia, I've come up with this list:

WOW. Was Lincoln really the first president with facial hair!? How is that possible? Insane. Maybe some of the earlier guys shaved before these pictures. Damn. Martin Van Buren had some incredible sideburns. Does that count?

Let's continue with our list.

Ulysses S. Grant... Man, and boy did Grant ever usher in an age of facial hair! The next 6 Presidents had facial hair!!

19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland (Okay, he's technically the same man as president 22, but he's considered a different number president. Take it for what it's worth)

After that, we had just two more presidents with facial hair (Teddy Roosevelt and Taft).

Now let's play a little game. What if Bush had facial hair? Do you still think he would've been such a rooster fuckamo?