Italy was part of the Spanish empire for hundreds of years. People don’t know a lot about Spain and its empire because of British intellectual bias against Catholics, so most good scholarship about Spain is in Spanish.

Tyson annoys me and I often think he needs to swim in his own lane, so this set of tweets really put a song in my cold heart.

While I love Neil deGrasse Tyson that was an unbelievably stupid thing to say. Italian cities had long been traveling. They had money for Cathedrals because of their trade with the East. (And, hello, he’s heard of Marco Polo right?) The whole point of Spanish exploration was to find trade routes that would cut off the…

Thanks for answering! That makes sense! I didn’t make the connection from Iberian plantations to slavery on plantations, and was also just confused, clearly .....

I recently flew to/from AZ and there were a number of dogs on planes. One dog had an ‘emotional support animal’ tag on it and it barked/nipped at EVERYONE who walked past it in the terminal. A) Bullshit on you and your fake support animal and B) those poor people who had to sit next to /near it for however long the…

He’s questioning the premise of NDT’s tweet. Maybe it isn’t so good that Spain spread its values through exploration.

CASSANDRA 4-EVA!!!!

I actually looked this up and apparently it’s a legit thing to refer to the cheapest section as “tourist class”. It isn’t derogatory, it’s just another term for “coach”. It may possibly be a British thing (I suppose actors are allowed to pick up weird expressions from books or TV or something, just like the rest of…

WAIT I know this one! 1a doesn’t have under seat storage for the dog. She (or someone)should have booked her in a seat she can stow the dog under.

Depending on the airlines, that’s a few hundred to a thousand dollar difference. I’d be ticked too.

Karl Lagerfeld is so gross, part of me wants to incinerate my phone every time I see his picture.

I’d be mad if I paid for first class and got moved to coach too.

WHY WAS I NOT ALREADY FOLLOWING ELVIRA??

yeiii Elvira

i like the third! but i like a dramatic brow

What about “Urban Fervor,” that other celebrated Kevin Grisham novel?

“Yoga Hosers” isn’t quite “Rural Juror”, but I keep thinking how awkward it sounds.

They dropped millihelen for this?

they’re posting about 3 articles for every gawker one.