Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament starts Tuesday. From then until the final on April 4, CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting will bring you every game, focusing on the buzzer beaters, the Cinderella stories, the athletes overcoming the odds. It’ll all end, as it always does, with confetti guns and net-cutting, and a video montage of…
Picture a startup founder. Chances are you went straight for a Mark Zuckerberg-type: male, white, nerdy and, above all, young. Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, three years after the collapse of the dotcom bubble, at the age of 20. Twelve years later, the company he founded is worth $270bn, and the tech world is in…
Shown through the window, Ralph Case makes a call at the Stark County for Trump Headquarters in Canton, Ohio. (Andrew Spear/For The Washington Post) CANTON, Ohio — A week ago in Middle America, a father and son piled into an old red Pontiac and hit the road for a weekend outing. “Dad, can I say,…
Kristen Sze’s tweet Twitter /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Kristen Sze, an ABC news anchor in San Francisco, felt the wrath of Twitter when she had the audacity to question the price of Sasha and Malia Obama’s state-dinner dresses. According to Sze, the gowns ranged in price from $17,000-$20,000, and she deemed them “too expensive” for such…
West Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2016.Jim Young/Reuters Photo from “Postcards From America” by Mark Power/Magnum Photos “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically, you’ll find this pearl adorning a classroom or splashed across a motivational poster….
Oops. In the early morning hours on Monday, Breitbart published a scathing takedown of their now-former editor-at-large Ben Shapiro after he announced his resignation from the conservative media company this weekend. The piece with the headline “BEN SHAPIRO BETRAYS LOYAL BREITBART READERS IN PURSUIT OF FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTORSHIP” has since been deleted; but of course,…
West Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2016.Jim Young/Reuters Photo from “Postcards From America” by Mark Power/Magnum Photos “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically, you’ll find this pearl adorning a classroom or splashed across a motivational poster….
People die. Characters die. This is perhaps life’s most unfortunate fact: that people will die and leave the rest of us behind. It’s incredibly rare that any dramatic television series lasting over three seasons will never kill a main or recurring character, and all those deaths have driven a stake through the heart of fandom: Joyce on Buffy, Lady…