Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Do you know what your problem is? Your problem is not that you are uninformed. That is what you might have thought your problem was. Your problem is also not that you lack information. This is a common misconception. In fact, people nowadays have lots of information. Too much, even. No, your problem is the…
My father-in-law grew up eating blood soup. He hated it, whether because of the taste or the humiliation, I never knew. His alcoholic father regularly drank up the family wage, and the family was often short on food money. They were evicted from apartment after apartment. He dropped out of school in eighth grade…
Using Census data, we’ve figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000. Here’s the map, with said counties shaded in. Below the map is the list of all the counties, so you can see if you live in one of them. Census/Business…
President-elect Donald Trump has had an up-and-down relationship with the media for a long time, but spent much of the campaign calling the press “crooked” and “rigged.” The Fix’s Peter Stevenson explains what his relationship with the press might look like going forward. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) President-elect Donald Trump sounded very much like presidential…
Chris Hemsworth has just demonstrated the right way to own up to racist or insensitive behavior. On Thursday, Hemsworth shared a photo on his official Instagram in solidarity with the protestors of the Standing Rock pipeline protest, and in the process apologized for cultural appropriation in the past. Hemsworth, who is currently filming the next…
GIF It’s very short, and it doesn’t give us much, but it’s enough to have us squealing alongside Felicity in agreement: Best superhero team-up ever. The brief teaser doesn’t show much other than what appears to be Kara’s first introduction (beyond Barry, of course) to the wider world of the CW-verse, meeting Ollie and the…
Okay, so we only really have a few actual pictures from the upcoming mega crossover between Supergirl, Arrow, Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow—and everyone looks appropriately stern or heroic for a crossover about an evil alien invasion. But the pictures shot for Entertainment Weekly to go with it? So much joy. Okay, let’s…
GIF The fact that they basically happened one after the other in an episode that was already an absolute blast just cemented my thoughts that Legends has gotten so much more fun now that its eagerly accepted the goofiness of its premise. “The Justice Society of America” was just jam-packed with brilliant moments,…
Ads don’t work, polls don’t work, celebrities don’t work, media endorsements don’t work and ground games don’t work. The media turned itself into the opposition and, accordingly, was voted down as the new political reality emerged: Ads don’t work, polls don’t work, celebrities don’t work, media endorsements don’t work, ground games don’t work. Not only…
Home > World News > U.S. Election 2016 www_responsive/articlebody.vm Opinion Trump’s Win, the Greatest Victory for anti-Semitism in America Since 1941 The Jew haters are celebrating. And Jews – from Jared Kushner to Sheldon Adelson –helped it happen. Screen grab of Donald Trump’s tweet of an image of Hillary Clinton with…