Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
“Write about the search,” he said. “That’s what’s fucking killing everyone.” “The search?” Did he mean finding a new rent-controlled apartment that wasn’t possessed by fruit flies? Or perhaps a new startup job that boasted an extra one-zillionth percent of equity? In San Francisco we were all searching for so many things at once. “No,…
There’s little to be said when a new movie gets successfully promoted. The actors show up for interviews, give PR-approved soundbites about what an honor it was to work on the picture, and go home a little richer while the rest of us—the hideous normals—move on with our lives…or at least onto something more entertaining….
YoutubeJanet Mock, a black transgender activist and author, cancelled an upcoming appearance at Brown University after leftist students protested her decision to speak. The students didn’t object to Mock: rather, they disagreed with the venue—Hillel, a Jewish organization. According to Campus Reform, activist students associate Hillel with anti-Palestinian racism: “Hillel as a corporation has consistently defended…
The nation’s largest newspaper company is placing a bet on Billy Penn. Gannett Corporation, the publisher of USA Today and more than 90 daily metro newspapers like the Indianapolis Star and the Arizona Republic, is now a minority owner of Spirited Media, Billy Penn’s parent company. The investment, effective immediately, will allow Billy Penn to add…
Between Iraq and Afghanistan, there are up to 400,000 Americans who’ve suffered traumatic brain injuries from battling IED’s and other aspects of American counterinsurgency wars. In addition to the untold human suffering from these traumatic brain injuries, RAND states “Estimates of the total one-year societal cost of the roughly 2,700 cases of traumatic brain injury…
Week 2 of the Hulk Hogan sex tape trial started today, and it’s already looking like it’ll be every bit as strange as Week 1. Hogan is, once again, outfitted in a formal black durag in the courtroom, and this morning, he watched as former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio took the stand and offered up…
paging_filter A Florida jury awarded Hulk Hogan $25.1 million in punitive damages — $15 million against Gawker Media, $10 million against Gawker CEO Nick Denton and $100,000 against former Gawker editor in chief A.J. Daulerio. Combined with the $115 million in compensatory damages that the jury awarded Hogan on Friday, that’s a total of $140.1…
Donald Trump (EPA/GARY CORONADO/POOL) Fifty-two minutes into Donald Trump’s discussion of weighty issues with The Washington Post’s editorial board came an interlude about his hands. “Normal,” the Republican presidential front-runner insisted. “Strong.” “Good size.” “Great.” “Fine.” “Slightly large, actually.” Trump was asked whether he regretted talking about the size of his hands — and making an unmistakable allusion…
From a March 19, 2016 New York Times article: One of the terrorists pulled out a laptop, propping it open against the wall, said the 40-year-old woman. When the laptop powered on, she saw a line of gibberish across the screen: “It was bizarre — he was looking at a bunch of lines, like lines…
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Speaking today at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest and most influential organization in the so-called Israel lobby, likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton drew a sharp contrast between her own position on the American-Israeli relationship and that of another politician whose more realist approach…