Today in 1475 Michelangelo was born. One of his masterworks was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, though if a poem he wrote about the job is to be believed, making all that great art was pretty painful. Plus: a series of portraits of every US president with a mullet.
Labor Pains (Slate)
every american president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet (Cam Harless on Twitter)
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