Susanna Salter was added to the ballot as a joke, but she ended up winning two-thirds of the vote and becoming the first mayor in the United States. She was born in Ohio to Quaker parents, but Susanna Salter moved to Kansas at the age of 12, where she would eventually become a mayor. She […]
George Sand has been described as a “cigar-toting sexual outlaw”. A French writer who wrote under a pen name, she’s a compelling figure. A cross-dresser, and likely bisexual, she lived on her own terms. George Sand was one of the most popular and respected authors of either gender in Europe. Here’s everything you need to […]
Love According to the Ancient Greeks Jennifer Gold writes about love. Her novels are The Ingredients of Us, and Keep Me Afloat (releasing March 3rd). When it came to love, the ancient Greeks didn’t limit themselves to one definition. Philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle recognized that love can come in many forms, from platonic […]
Here are Mark Twain’s sickest burns. Illustrated Let’s just get to it, shall we? 1. Mark Twain on politics “The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet”. Mark Twain was apparently not a fan of U.S. politics. I wonder what he’d say […]
In 1920, a newspaper reported a salacious story with the headline “Have we a New Sex Problem Here?” The story referred to a divorce case in Chicago in which a woman left her husband after 6 years of marriage to be with another woman. At the time, the idea of a woman leaving her husband […]
What is Cockaigne? We all know that to get in the Christian heaven you have to be goodie-goodie and abstain from the pleasures of the flesh. But what if there was an a different type of heaven where you can drink alcohol, the sky rains cheese, and laziness is encouraged? Medieval folks dreamed up just […]
