Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In 2014, a year before Donald Trump was even a twinkle in Chris Christie’s eye, the Republican National Committee announced that its 2016 convention would be held in the fair city of Cleveland, OH. Last night, Donald Trump insisted it was his doing. The impetus for this particular bizarre lie was apparently the fact that…
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Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly—who ranks among the channel’s most valuable and visible on-air talent, and has maintained close ties with network CEO Roger Ailes—has apparently told lawyers hired by 21st Century Fox that Ailes made sexual advances toward her several years ago, according to reporting by Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine: According to…
Onstage at Monday night’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Donald Trump made an unforgettable entrance to an equally unforgettable song: Queen’s “We Are the Champions.”
The posture of the filmmakers was that this was normalized in the future and it was nothing, really. It was a big revelation yet handled in a way that communicated it wasn’t anything the crew didn’t already know about him. You mentioned that Mr. Takei was one of few Asian actors you saw growing up….
“Thots & Thoughts” is a column in which musings on dating, sex, race, religion, and politics all come together—from a bird’s-eye view. If systemic racism employed the services of a carnival barker, that person would sound exactly like former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. A fusion of buffoonery and bigotry, there are only two…
If you don’t have the time or ability to catch Pokémon and level up on the Pokémon Go game that’s taking the world by storm, a few Poké-savvy entrepreneurs have a solution: just buy an account. Pokémon Go accounts are popping up on eBay and Craigslist, with prices ranging from a few bucks to upwards…
This may seem strange, but i have often wondered which industry is more progressive promoting women: technology or men’s baseball. The answer may surprise you. At the Los Angeles Dodgers, in 2003, 21% of front-office executives, 44% of the managers, 56% of supervisors and 21% of directors were women. That is significantly higher than tech…
Barrier Status: ‘none’ Among the many questions still unanswered following Friday’s coup attempt in Turkey is one that has national-security implications for the United States and for the rest of the world: How secure are the American hydrogen bombs stored at a Turkish airbase? The Incirlik Airbase, in southeast Turkey, houses NATO’s largest nuclear-weapons storage…
“What a memorable day!” wrote a middle-class Hamburg housewife in her diary on Jan. 30, 1933. She had just watched the parade of torch-bearing storm troopers celebrate Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power in Germany. Frau Solmitz did not, however, extol only Hitler. She waxed melodic about Hitler’s cabinet, in which there were just three…