Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Over the past few years, more and more couples have begun to speak publicly about their decision not to have children—and the joy this lifestyle has brought them. Who needs kids, they explain, when their lives are wonderful as they are? These folks will likely be glad to know that a new report from the…
America faces an epidemic of mass shootings. It’s up to you to stop them… with the power of your thoughts and prayers. Thoughts & Prayers: The Game. Source: Thoughts & Prayers: The Game
In the mid ‘90s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the news and our cultural consciousness. The obsession for all things O.J. has returned in recent months, thanks to FX’s “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson” and ESPN’s epic five-part documentary “O.J.: Made in America.” There’s so much to say about Simpson that it’s…
Booking photo of Brock Turner, June 2, 2016 in the Santa Clara Police Department. (Santa Clara Police Department) The six-month jail sentence for Brock Turner, the former Stanford student who was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman after a fraternity party in 2015, ignited a national debate about how U.S. courts handle such cases….
The Atlanta Braves are moving to a new ballpark next spring, and … and really, that’s it as far as the good news goes. The latest debacle to emerge from the team’s abrupt decision to abandon their 20-year-old downtown stadium and head for the ‘burbs occurred last weekend when it was reported that the…
We just lived through the nightmare scenario we were worried about as we called for a moratorium on The DAO: someone exploited a weakness in the code of The DAO to empty out more than 2M ($40M USD) ether. The exploit seems to have targeted the reentrancy problem in the ‘splitDAO’ function. The reentrancy problem…
Meet the 45 Senators Who Blocked Background Checks President Obama said that “there was no coherent argument for why we wouldn’t do this. It came down to politics.” Dana Liebelson Apr. 17, 2013 8:25 PM An amendment proposed by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to require background checks for commercial gun sales…
On Monday evening, charged crowds of New Yorkers made their way to Sheridan Square in the West Village to mourn the victims of the terrorist attack at the Orlando nightclub Pulse. Before celebrities and politicians got up to the mic, and smartphones were held high to create constellations of light behind the podium, the crowd…
Is there any good place to live? A few years back I went to San Francisco to visit a friend. San Francisco is abjectly awful. You’d be hard pressed to find a place where the contrast between the poor and the rich is as sad and stark. But like any good gentrified city, there is…
In May, two teenagers posted a photo on social media — she in a long, red dress with golden embellishments that reflected the color of her long curls; he in a suit with a matching red tie. “He cleans up good, huh?” she wrote beneath the photo. Then: “We had a really great night.” He made it his…