Bringing you only the most important news of the day, here's the first known use of the word "fuck" in the written English language, in its modern spelling. Written by a monk of course, in 1528.
Author: Erik Loomis
We interrupt this regularly scheduled Dead Horses in American History blogging to bring you 1980 in one image: Willie Nelson on a golf course, jingoism, the Cold War, the last.
The point in this New York Times op-ed is a good one--the state of farming in California is highly tenuous. Given that a huge percentage of the fruits and veggies.
The response of Tennessee Republicans to the UAW organizing campaign with Volkswagen approval in Chattanooga lays bare just how much the Republican Party hates organized labor: A state senator said today that future financial incentives for expanding Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant may hinge on how workers...
When you think of men and the 19th century, you probably think of beards. Large, ridiculous beards unseen again in American life until the early 21st century. Moreover, the beards.
Wow. Michael Sam, an All-American defensive lineman from Missouri Tigers and the Associated Press' SEC Defensive Player of the Year, said that he is gay in interviews with ESPN's "Outside.
Last night, Oklahoma State's star basketball player Marcus Smart went into the stands and shoved a Texas Tech fan. The initial reaction was typical--Smart's a bad apple, he's blowing his career being stupid, etc. See Myron Medcalf who claims, "It’s too early to know exactly...
The more parents who opt out of making their children go through the pointless and educationally destructive Common Core standardized testing that is the fad of Rheeist politicians of both.
Maryland legislators have introduced a bill to make the state's poultry producers pay a whole 5 cents a bird to protect the Chesapeake Bay watershed from runoff from these incredibly.
Have you ever wondered what that inveterate old racist crank William F. Buckley thought about The Beatles? Luckily, now you can find out. From September 13, 1964: The Beatles are not merely awful; I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they...
Man sitting on dead horse, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1880
I suppose there aren't a whole lot of places in Russia where horrible things haven't happened. But still: History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who.