Blog posts filed under "history"

How a rowdy annual orgy was tamed into the tradition of family Christmas shopping and commercialism we know today.

An excellent documentary, resulting from years of searching and assembly.

Hunts' Guide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula helped us find some interesting things around Iron Mountain.

The Secretary of State's deformed analogy rings the special bell in the commentator's head.

Watch the full movie online -- a look at the blogging phenomenon and a number of the most well-known bloggers.

Ehrman does an outstanding job of summarizing the history of Biblical texts in simple language.

I depend on my iBook for a lot of things. When its screen died, Vine Viewer helped me backup my files via VNC.

The US has put a lot of effort into portraying Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a fearsome adversary. Now they expose him as an idiot.

Presidential sticky notes known as 'signing statements' magically eliminate the need for a congressional or judicial branch of government.