This Day in History: May 29

1790: Rhode Island arrives fashionably late to become the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the United States Constitution. Typical Rhode Island. It thinks it's soooo cool.

1990: After a wild, week-long, vodka-soaked bender, Boris N. Yeltsin woke up to find he had been elected president of the Russian republic. Some crazy shit, comrade. Crazy shit.

1848: Following years of vociferously preaching the pressing importance of discount fireworks and higher quality cheese to the legitimacy of the fledgling democracy, President James Polk welcomed Wisconsin as the 30th state of the union.

The DoF Friday Funk: Loose Joints

Lee Fields aka "Little JB". One of the many "lost and found" soul singers of the 90s:

This album did not leave my CD player (man, that sounds archaic) for the better part of a year:

James Polk and The Brothers. The title of this track explains it all: Just Plain Funk. Who knew the 11th president of the United States of America could throw down like this?