Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Imagine my plight: I, a full-grown American male, would like nothing better than to do my own laundry. But where is the detergent for me? Everywhere, the scents are flowery meadow this, springtime seabreeze that. Finally, a new contender emerges—FREY enters the fray—and I am liberated at last. While reading Drug Store News, my trustiest…
Friends of Juanita Broaddrick protest on the sidewalk in front of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate campaign headquarters in New York, Aug. 19, 2000. Photo via AP BuzzFeed’s Katie J.M. Baker just published an excellent, nuanced and confounding profile of Juanita Broaddrick, the 73-year-old Arkansas woman who has said for years that Bill Clinton raped her….
Republican insiders are more convinced than Democrats that Donald Trump is so far behind Hillary Clinton that he can’t win in November. Roughly half of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — activists, strategists and operatives in 11 swing states — believe that Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes is basically shut off after another…
SBJ/Aug. 15-21, 2016/On The Ground in Rio USOC exec Larry Buendorf has spent the last 23 years protecting Team USA, and the 23 years before that protecting the president. Photo by: BEN FISCHER / STAFF Photo by: AP IMAGES There’s no such thing as a low profile for Team USA at the Olympics, but Chief…
Almost 2 years ago, the website Nerd Approved posted a sneak peek at what could potentially be an animated series based on none other than the cult classic Joss Whedon show ‘Firefly’. Now, it looks like the show may actually become a reality. Created by artist Stephen Byrne, ‘The Animated Adventures of Firefly’ follows the…
For the first time in the last 15 years, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has not only failed to mention that he was the New York City Mayor during 9/11—he appears to have forgotten that 9/11 happened altogether. Did we collectively quantum leap into a warped alternate dimension? Giuliani, who’s also known in…
I’ve written twice about the Peter Thiel situation (in more than 140 characters, anyway), here and here, and I’m too burned out on the subject to really respond to this epic word salad of disingenuousness. But I wonder how many Silicon Valley people are now backing away from Thiel slowly. Barring some amazing act of…
Peter Thiel is a billionaire who decided he didn’t like Gawker Media after it outed him as gay. So he funded Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against the company, and they won. Now Gawker is selling itself in a bankruptcy auction. On the same day that bids for Gawker are due, Thiel published an op-ed in the…
Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images On the eve of Gawker Media’s sale to … somebody, the author of its bankruptcy, Facebook billionaire Peter Thiel, was graciously given op-ed space in the New York Times to lay out his case against the blog network. Thiel, who funded the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that brought Gawker to the point…
Don’t stop thinkin’ about the ’90s Buzzfeed has a long, interesting interview with Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says Bill Clinton raped her in an Arkansas hotel room almost 40 years ago. Maybe this case has always bugged you too, because we are supposed to believe women when it comes to rape. (For the record,…