Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Outsize pay for chief executive officers has been a bone of contention among shareholder activists for years. What’s less known is that the directors on board-compensation committees — the very people who decide to give out those large CEO salaries, bonuses, and stock grants — also tend to pay themselves and other directors extremely well….
Yeah I saw it and it was a good musical and all that but come on. “The Case for Hamilton as Album of the Year” Come on. You can find this Hamiltonian idea of hip-hop refracted through rap’s other great works this year. You hear it in the verbosity, the craft, the daringness, the desperate…
HTML Element: 7.2509921 Forget about snakes on a plane — check out what was riding on this bus-s-s-s. A large snake, possibly a ball python, took a weekend ride on an MTA bus in Brooklyn. The slithering passenger was seen riding the B12 bus at East New York and Saratoga Aves. Shortly after…
So you want to live in New York City. The stereotypical “affluent young college graduate from Ohio coming to make his way in the big city”—that easily mocked demographic that can be ignored and dismissed out of hand as spoiled, or part of the problem—is only a small sliver of New York City residents. Most…
As the holidays approach I’ve been feeling less and less like blogging. So I decided in order to best serve the “Cut” readers the most obvious option was having a professional Manservant do my job for me. Meet Conr, my Manservant for several hours, sent as a corporate holiday gift….
THE INTERCEPT HAS OBTAINED a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies. The document, thick with previously undisclosed information, also offers rare insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police inside the United States. The catalogue includes details on the Stingray, a…
Michael Ip/for New York Daily News An off-duty cop has been arrested in Brooklyn on child molestation charges. An NYPD cop has been arrested in Brooklyn on child molestation charges. Jacob Sabbagh, 33, was busted in the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park on Wednesday and charged with “course of sexual conduct against a…
It is a fact universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of an opinion must be in want of a correction. Well, actually, no it isn’t, but who doesn’t love riffing on Jane Austen? The answer is: lots of people, because we’re all different and some of us haven’t even read Pride and Prejudice dozens…
Office of Mitch MorrisseyLast August, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey charged two local activists, Mark Iannicelli and Eric Brandt, with seven felonies each for passing out jury nullification pamphlets at the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse. Morrissey continued to pursue those charges even after conceding that such activity is protected by the First Amendment. When I asked Lynn Kimbrough, Morrissey’s public information…
Well this is both embarrassing and deeply telling. In what appears to have been a gesture of goodwill gone haywire, McDonald’s recently teamed up with Visa to create a financial planning site for its low-pay workforce. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the thing seems to have been literally incapable of imagining of how a fast food employee…