Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(All men must die) An illustrated guide to all 456 deaths in “Game of Thrones” By Shelly Tan and Alberto Cuadra, Published: April 6, 2015 WARNING: Spoilers abound. Ned Stark, Joffrey Baratheon, Oberyn Martell — the list of “Game of Thrones” characters goes on and on. But the 456 characters below all have one thing…
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world 7 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About The Fast & Furious – YouTube.
On Monday, at the White House Easter Egg Roll, President Obama’s reading of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are was interrupted by bees. The children in attendance screamed, because children and bees are natural enemies. The President urged them to stop screaming, because “bees are good,” and besides, wild things wouldn’t be afraid of…
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia said Monday that it is moving forward with a possible lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine in the wake of the now-retracted “Rape on Campus” article. “After 130 days of living under a cloud of suspicion as a result of reckless reporting by Rolling Stone magazine,…
Apparently a crew of three “artists,” plus assistants, dragged a four-foot-tall plaster-like bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden up Fort Greene Park and on top of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument last night (Sunday night), and adhered it to one of the top columns. They also adhered letters spelling his name to the bottom of…
Brian Stelter gives his take on a new “litmus test” for likely Republican presidential candidates – whether or not they read The New York Times. Why the New York Times is a GOP campaign issue – CNN Video.
Students at Columbia University are fretting over the arrest of a fellow undergraduate accused of dealing drugs on campus. The alleged dealer was an active user of Venmo, a mobile app for sending money to people, and on Venmo, transactions are public by default. Yes, even drug transactions. Much of his activity has since been removed or…
Photo Credit Wesley Allsbrook IN 1997, I was sexually assaulted by a fellow student at the University of Virginia. At a closed hearing, the university’s committee on sexual assault found him responsible. His punishment? A letter in his file. It’s not clear how many women have won their cases through the university’s system since they…
2016 presidential hopeful Jeb Bush loves hispanic culture. He was born in Texas, governed Florida, lived two years in Venezuela, speaks fluent spanish and married the Mexican-born Columba Bush. He basically might as well be spanish, right? Except he isn’t. He is super white. But on a 2009 voter-registration application, Bush indicated that he was Hispanic, baffling…
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Last November, we published a story, ‘A Rape on Campus’ [RS 1223], that centered around a University of Virginia student’s horrifying account of her alleged gang rape at a campus fraternity house. Within days, commentators started to question the veracity of our narrative. Then, when The Washington Post uncovered details suggesting that the assault could…