Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I’ve been watching with first amusement and then frustration as tweeter after tweeter claim the media aren’t covering things going on in the world that they really, really are covering. At the time of writing, this tweet has had nearly 50,000 retweets… But it’s just blatantly untrue. Search Google News and you will find pages and…
Hundreds of members of the Church of Latter Day Saints mailed or handed in letters quitting the Mormon church on Saturday to protest against a new policy barring children of married same-sex couples from being baptized until they are adults. Leaders of the church approved the policy last week. It added same-sex marriage to acts…
Japan is once again in recession. The situation isn’t dire, but weak corporate investment is an important warning sign that investors should heed. Japanese gross domestic product fell by an annualized 0.8% from a year earlier in the September quarter, the second straight decline. This may overstate the extent of weakness, as it was dragged down…
On the night of the Paris attacks, Rurik Bradbury noticed an inevitable and tiresome trend popping up on Twitter. “I think I saw a professional news organization tweet about the lights of the Eiffel Tower being turned off in memory of the victims,” recalled Bradbury, the New York-based CMO of a software company. In the…
LONDON The Anonymous hackers collective is preparing to unleash waves of cyberattacks on Islamic State following the attacks in Paris last week that killed 129 people, it said in a video posted online. A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask said the Islamic State militants who claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks were “vermin”…
Nordstrom’s pulls Hanukkah sweater seen as insulting to Jewish women | Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders during the second official Democratic presidential debate, in Des Moines. (REUTERS/Jim Young) Sometimes I feel as though the Democratic Party doesn’t WANT us to watch its debates. This second one took place on a Saturday night, and spending your Saturday night watching the Democratic debate is one…
It is long past time for the oligarchies of the Gulf states to stop paying protection to the men in the suicide belts. Their societies are stunted and parasitic. The main job of the elites there is to find enough foreign workers to ensla…er…indenture to do all the real work. The example of Qatar and…
<![endif] Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. World Someone Photoshopped A Sikh Man To Look Like An Alleged Paris Attacker A photoshopped image of Veerender Jubbal, an outspoken critic of GamerGate, was distributed online as a photo of one of the Paris attackers. 1. An…
Anne Frank’s diary is one of the most powerful historical texts of the 20th Century. It documents the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe in a way that is both incredibly detailed and (rare for such pieces) easy for children to relate to. So, if there’s one text that deserves to be freely available to all of…