Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Starcher Trek puts the lunatic spies of ISIS in charge of the Enterprise, using footage from Star Trek: The Animated Series and audio from Archer to cast Sterling Archer as Captain Kirk, Lana as Uhura, and Ray as Sulu. It’s a silly joke, but a good one. Things get much more surreal in the second…
Yesterday the highly anticipated mobile game Pokemon Go was unleashed onto the world, transforming your everyday life into a real life Pokemon hunt around you. People on social media are already having fun posting the surprising places they found Pokemon: Nice try Psyduck! I see you hiding within the ranks of the real birds! #PokemonGo…
While the creative team—and the man currently playing Hikaru Sulu, John Cho—of Star Trek Beyond may have decided that including a scene of Sulu with his same sex partner wasn’t a big deal, George Takei had a different response. The actor who originated the role told the Hollywood Reporter, “I’m delighted that there’s a gay…
I didn’t talk to Sarah Ellison for this, and I feel like I have to state that because the way the reporter wrote it, it looks like I did. But the bit about the Richard Mack story is at least 98% accurate. (There were two reporters, not three.) I haven’t been talking to reporters generally, though I…
Judge Robin Camp berated a sexual assault victim during a trial. Photo: Tetra Images/Getty Images Canadian Federal Court Justice Robin Camp, who was investigated for making insensitive comments during a sexual-assault trial, would like to keep his job, please. Camp oversaw the trial of Alexander Scott Wagar, who was…
Last month, we told you about a pair of lawsuits filed by someone named Katie Johnson, who claims that Donald Trump raped her when she was 13, at a party hosted by notorious celebrity pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The claims, as we told you at the time, are being backed by a group of men who…
We all have the power to channel our anger and frustration into action. We must use our voices to contact the politicians and legislators in our districts and demand social and judicial changes. To contact your Congressman or woman click here. To voice protest for Alton Sterling, click here. To voice protest for Philando Castile,…
Hillary Clinton speaks during a town hall meeting on Dec. 4, 2015, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She has not held a news conference since that day. (Charlie Neibergall/AP) The presumptive Democratic nominee for president in 2016 has not held a news conference in 2016. This has become a source of consternation to the media, as expressed by Washington…
On Wednesday night’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show, host Larry Wilmore devoted a segment to talking about the death of Alton Sterling, a man police shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this week. “Thank God for fucking cellphones,” Wilmore said. “Because we would never even hear about incidents like this this otherwise. In…
A Guide to Taking Action on Police Reform In the wake of the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, I wanted to know how I, as a white person, can help without speaking over people of color. I was directed to a very helpful list of actions by Ijeoma Oluo, who graciously enumerated ways…