Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
“My, isn’t downtown exotic!” (kupicoo/iStockPhoto) Every so often, a newspaper will publish a Rich Person Real Estate Trend piece so horrifying I am certain I will keel over at my desk and die. Usually the Times is responsible for these monstrosities. But somehow, today the Wall Street Journal managed to top even the couple…
Do you remember that scene in Love, Actually when Emma Thompson has a controlled breakdown in her bedroom after discovering that her husband (played by the late Alan Rickman) is cheating on her? She paces back and forth in front of her marriage bed, hyperventilating, unsure of what to do with herself or her heart—much…
A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him,” according to a judge. At his sentencing Thursday, his victim read him a letter describing the “severe impact” the assault had on her. Katie J.M. Baker…
Inside the Realbotix factory, where some of the world’s first sex robots are being developed. It’s only a matter of time before we will love, marry and have sex with robots, believes David Levy, an artificial intelligence expert. (Abyss Creations/ Phoenix Studios) By Sunny FreemanBusiness Reporter 7:00 AM, Sat., June 4, 2016 She’s the perfect…
Just past midnight on Saturday, Jimmy Glenn slumped into a small wooden chair in the back room of his bar in Times Square, his face aglow before a cable broadcast. The bar, a 45-year-old sanctum of boxing ephemera called Jimmy’s Corner, was packed with dozens of patrons in various stages of inebriation and celebration, but…
screenshot of reviews on ((coincidence detector)) The alt-right Internet community has started to sneak into the fringes of the mainstream Internet recently, undoubtedly helped along by unofficial alt-right idol Donald Trump’s rise to prominence in the presidential race. And this means more people are getting introduced to the racist memes popular in this corner of the online universe….
Image: Jason Koebler Jewish writers and other public figures have gotten used to seeing their names pop up in forums and Twitter mentions with three parentheses around their name. Yair Rosenberg, a senior writer at the Jewish magazine Tablet, might see something like this: (((Yair Rosenberg))) or (((Rosenberg))). Rosenberg has known for years that…
What to Know Around 276 small dogs, about 20 of them pregnant, were seized from a Monmouth County home Friday One of the owners, who was said to be in tears as the dogs were taken, had not been seen by neighbors in years The dogs will be placed for adoption when they’re ready. Information…
Commentators have ranged far and wide looking for historical precedents in their efforts to describe the rise of Donald Trump. Some rifle through the American experience, citing the cases of Andrew Jackson or Barry Goldwater; others rummage through the European experience, turning up the instances of Benito Mussolini or Silvio Berlusconi, Jean-Marie Le Pen…
When I was in college a couple of journo kids a few years older than me decided to start their own sports publication. They called it N2U, and earnestly explained that it meant they were “into” the “university.” (It was the ’90s, kids. Everything sounded like this.) When it launched, the publishers of N2U had to spend…