UK Update:

I remember this horrible craze so clearly—in terms of the horrible, destructive impact on our country and our culture, it was a case of journalistic malpractice as egregious as the political coverage that destroyed Hillary Clinton and gave us Mad Donald.

Yes! I was excited, but the reality of seeing it? Unreal.

Eclipse glasses must be fake news.

I was in the path of totality and it was an amazing experience. (#sodacity)!! I was prepared to be a stodgy Grinch about the whole thing, but it was totally moving and I actually welled up a bit seeing it. It was pure magic. I get why people travel all over the globe for eclipses.

Wow, thanks! This is really cool. Actually, considering just how incredibly cool it sounds, I’m a little freaked out that I’d never heard of it before, even in school. It seems like it ought to be considered a pretty significant part of world history, no?

I love your posts in this thread.

Mr. PrincessMonsterTruck and I already have a name picked out if we have a boy: Axl Rosenberg. He will be the coolest kid in Hebrew school.

1,500 statues and monuments across 31 states and D.C., according to the SPLC. Funny enough, they are not just in the south... there are confederate monuments in states like California, Oregon, and Massachusetts as well.

You can google Al-andalus ^_^

Philosophy, Culture, Poetry, less restrictive sexual mores, Chemistry, Alchemy, Algebra, Astronomy/Astrology, Medicine hit an apex in the Iberian Peninsula under Moorish rule. For the Middle Ages, it was a fairly bright, shining light of exchange among cultures (as was Alexandria, a few hundred years earlier). Not…

What’s this about Andaluz? I googled it but I don’t get it.

Thank you so much for your kind words, Anna. 💖

Inspired by yours 🔆

Sometimes I read a comment that makes me feel conflicted about how many stars I give out to relatively pedestrian comments that pale in comparison.

Exactly this. Someone posted this tweet some time back, and it was perfect.

Ima was not an unusual name for the time: a variant of Emma.

This is a blog. No one here is claiming this is journalism. Chill the fuck out.

To be fair he was already dead in my heart

Sun is bright...sun goes dark. You can’t explain that.