Song of the Day: Drive-by Truckers, "The Flying Wallendas"

From the New Year's Eve show I attended. I was basically right under the circus person you see in the video.

Historical Image of the Day

Circus Cards of dwarves and midgets, 1922.

Eugenicists were really into circuses, categorizing the physical problems that made these people "freaks" and trying to make connections between them and eugenic ideas.