Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
*Well, the mostly young and mostly male users of Reddit, anyway. PUBLISHED 2:00 pm EDT | Nov 18 Since the launch of Reddit — the online link-sharing and commenting platform — in June 2005, the site’s monthly visitors have grown to more than 200 million, and users have posted more than 1.7 billion comments. Those…
So, I asked: “Thank you for sharing that. Tell me your story? I’d love to know how you came to this point of view.” She seemed surprised by my interest. “Why? It doesn’t matter. Your sign said Free Listening, so I gave you something to listen to.” “Give me more to listen to.” “They should be locked up! It’s…
This article originally appeared on Capital & Main. What if millions of American workers were being denied health insurance, job security and the most basic legal protections, from overtime pay to workers compensation to the right to join a union? What if tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer revenues — money desperately needed to…
Most of my friends who grew up in the South have a story about the time their mothers sent them out to the yard to pick their own switch for a whipping. I do not. My mom summoned me for a spanking once and declared that I had to go outside and pick a switch,…
Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed while serving in Iraq, stood before the Democratic convention on Thursday, July 28 and blasted Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims and immigrants. Here’s what happened next. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) By Ghazala Khan July 31 at 9:45 AM Ghazala Khan’s son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was…
Happily, her work on the application had required that she meet with Mr. Sturtevant. When he asked her out for drinks at the Barclay Hotel bar in Midtown Manhattan, she wore a little navy dress from Ohrbach’s, with her hair in a bun. After a few martinis, she walked him back to her apartment. A…
Everybody is being really mean to that nice Donald Trump, and Wonkette for one is not going to take it! All Mister Trump did is respond to criticism — and is he not allowed to respond to criticism? did someone take his First Amendment away?? — and everybody is acting like he is some petulant…
Ever gaze into the hoary peaks of Overwatch’s Nepal map and wonder what’s out there? What lies beyond the map space’s endless combat purgatory, Blizzard’s tiny death island? A couple Overwatch players managed to break free. Here’s what they found. In this video, hulkman503 and friend of hulkman503 demonstrate how to break outside Nepal’s usual…
Image via AP. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate and also an actual medical doctor, doesn’t appear to be anti-vaccination. But she’s sort of anti-vaxxer adjacent, giving a series of mealy statements to the Washington Post and in a Reddit AMA about whether vaccines are safe. Jill: you don’t have to do this! It’s…