President’s Day, a day where we celebrate the contribution of many of our nation’s great presidents has come and gone, but one thing we’re often asked is which presidents were gay or even a little tranny? Do any of these political leaders look gay to you? On today’s show we e...

Did you know that according to THE LAW, this holiday is simply called “Washington’s Birthday” and not “President’s Day,” as the mattress stores and car dealers have taught you to believe. According to one person on the Internet, the misconception — like most...

The Electric Six's "Jimmy Carter" is, as far as I'm concerned, the single best song ever written about the American presidency. (Well, the American presidency and boy bands.) But there are a lot of excellent runners-up! What do we really know about our first president? Well... He was very tall and h...

It’s Washington’s Birthday. Okay, it’s not really, but today’s the day we officially observe Washington’s Birthday in the U.S. What’s that? You thought it was “Presidents Day?” Why would you think that? Oh, someone told you that? You read it on a calen...

Today we honor some of our scientists: Ernest Everett Just Ernest Everett Just (August 14, 1883 – October 27, 1941) was a pioneering African American U.S. biologist. Just spent his adult life collecting, classifying, and caring for his marine specimens. He believed that scientists should study who...

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

I never thought I 'd say it-- but thank god for the NFL Playoffs. With all this Inauguration stuff that was the only thing I could stand watching this weekend. This is one of those historical moments—like the death of Princess Di, or anything to do with the Kennedys, when we truly value the existe...