What? A Swedish Power Metal band pays tribute to Alvin York, American hero of the Great War? Give a listen and learn.

Bear with me as use math to compare GnR to Metallica, and further demonstrate why Axl and the boys do not deserve the love you give them.

Forget what you think you know about this one trick pony of a band - they're a fraud and I can prove it.

Noteworthy thoughts on how our language gets butchered by the thoughtless...

Who doesn't like cover tunes? In this episode I depart from serious and important topics to discuss merely the important: several good, interesting cover tunes.

I think the title says it - here's a summary of the world's fascination with airships in the early 20th century.

I think the title sums it up.

Most people have no idea that there was a first draft of the DI, submitted to the Continental Congress and amended by them after some debate. Some of the changes were stylistic, some were not. In this episode I examine the circumstances around the DI and what those changes meant then, and mean now.

Was it states' rights, slavery, or something else? I hear this argument often among fans of history and buffs, and frankly it's gotten old. There is a reason, and the leaders of the Southern states were crystal clear about it when they rebelled against the general government. Listen to this episode and get a sense of the mountain of evidence.

Winston Churchill said that the truth is so important that it must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies. The truth of Operation OVERLORD - the Normandy Invasion of 1944 - was a truth of such magnitude that it was accompanied by the most extensive and complicated deception operations ever attempted in warfare. These efforts were so secret that many of them were only declassified in the late 1980s, meaning that our understanding of what happened, why, and how on that "Longest Day" was incomplete before them, at best.