Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Look at this thing. Just look at it. This is a thing people claim is “good.” They seem to enjoy that sour, wet crunch of this pukish-green, kinda transparent (?) fake vegetable. People with that bad taste. Trash people. Because this a trash food for a trash person. Not liking pickles is like being the…
On Friday, November 27, a 57-year-old white man named Robert Louis Dear allegedly injured nine people and killed three in a shooting spree at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. Among those shot were four police officers, one of whom died. As several media outlets and many on social media noted, Dear was given the opportunity to…
Photo Credit Illustration by Kyle Hilton Philip writes: When I am driving and I receive a text, instead of replying myself, my wife will text for me. But if I say: ‘‘Should we meet you at your house?’’ she will send ‘‘should wee meet u at ur house.’’ I find texting impersonal, but if I…
Ibrahim Hashi, a Muslim veteran of the U.S. military, is pictured in his American University dorm room on Dec. 2. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Emir Hadzic was a Muslim refugee. “The way Americans welcomed us made such a huge impression on me that I felt like I owed something back,” said…
Photo Students cheered as the statue of Cecil Rhodes was removed from the University of Cape Town. Credit Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images Johannesburg — NOT long after I moved from the United States to South Africa six years ago, I took a walk in a city called Bloemfontein. The scale of the downtown is huge, reflecting…
Photo: Neil Davidson/© 2014 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved. SCOTLAND — When the Golden Globe nominations were announced early Thursday morning, the cast and crew of Outlander collectively got the shivers — not the least because they were shooting outdoors on location on an extremely cold December afternoon. “I’m…
For the second time this year, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and its sister publications in Nevada are under new ownership. The publications were acquired by News + Media Capital Group LLC, a newly formed Delaware-domiciled company backed by “undisclosed financial backers with expertise in the media industry,” Michael Schroeder, who was identified as the manager…
Hundreds of activists gathered outside of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City’s Columbus Circle on Thursday evening for a demonstration in solidarity with Syrian and Iraqi refugees. The protest was organized to coincide with International Human Rights Day. The organizers of the rally said protesters were there “to say no to the…
Anybody who’s ever watched Star Trek: Voyager knows there’s a lot of technobabble on that show. Even more than most other Star Treks. And Captain Janeway, the show’s lead, is actually a scientist in her own right. So Kate Mulgrew had to work hard to sell all that scientific dialogue. Mulgrew was talking to Huffington…
Rosalind Brewer in 2010 Bryan Bedder/Getty Images /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer is in hot water with white men after a CNN interview in which she championed diversity and talked about an experience meeting with a supplier who had no representation of women or people of color. “It has to start with…