Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I do not know how to explain what I just watched. It should be easy. Donald Trump introduced Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. There it is. One sentence. Eleven words. But that doesn’t explain what happened any better than “I spent a few hours letting lysergic acid diethylamide mimic serotonin in my…
Hhenderson777/WikipediaP.J. O’Rourke once called Hillary Clinton “a chowder-skull” and “a bossy little rich snoot of a goody-two-shoes.” So it surprised a lot of people when the political humorist announced that he’s voting for her. Clinton, O’Rourke said on the May 7 episode of the NPR show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, was “the second worst thing…
From political power brokers to the entire island of Manhattan, a varied cast of taunting insiders has inadvertently driven Donald Trump’s lifelong revenge march toward the White House. This is what it’s like to be one of them. McKay Coppins BuzzFeed News Reporter posted on Jul. 17, 2016, at 9:29 p.m. Tweet Tumblr Donald Trump…
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The CIA has a long history of “spooking the news,” dating back to its earliest days when the legendary spymaster Allen Dulles and his top staff drank and dined regularly with the press elite of New York and Washington, and the agency boasted hundreds of U.S. and foreign journalists as paid and unpaid assets. In…
A brochure from Mike Pence’s 1988 House race, the first of two election defeats that helped shape Pence’s future political image. (Congressman Philip R. Sharp Papers/Ball State University Libraries) Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district. And then, scandal. Campaign finance records from…
Video Reports of Officer Shooting There were reports of gunfire and an officer being wounded in Baton Rouge on Sunday near where protests have been held since the police shooting of Alton Sterling on July 5. By TWITTER on Publish Date July 17, 2016. Photo by Mike Kunzelman/Associated Press. Watch in Times Video » The…
Harley Quinn has sported several memorable looks since her 1992 debut — across animation, comic books and video games — but perhaps none is as iconic as her original jester costume. As the fan-favorite DC Comics antiheroine leaps to live-action with director David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad,” an effort was made to bring the red-and-blue suit…
I’ve been meaning to write about this all week, but the weirdness of Brogan BamBrogan got in the way. A week or so ago, a judge ordered the release of documents that show beyond all reasonable doubt that Uber hired a CIA-linked private investigation firm to investigate the personal and professional life of Portland attorney Andrew…
Another week, another police shooting in the United States. So far this year, 569 people have be killed by US police, according to The Guardian’s count. Police brutality is a horrific normality and, in more ways than one, black men being shot by police has become the modern-day equivalent of lynching. But, of course, it…