Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On the afternoon of Nov. 28, officer Garrett Swasey responded to reports of an active shooter at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. Alleged gunman Robert Lewis Dear had reportedly taken hostages, and Swasey was called to help figure out how to defuse the situation. Dear didn’t plan on going quietly, however, and in an…
We are now into week two of the media’s obsession with Donald Trump‘s claim to have seen thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, a claim that is at once patently false and worthy of endless debate. Enter former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to make…
A court in the Phillippines convicted a U.S. Marine of homicide Tuesday after determining he had killed a Filipino woman upon learning she was transgender. http://gawker.com/u-s-marine-cha… Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton was charged with murder last December after authorities found the body of Jennifer Laude, also known as Jeffrey, half-stuffed into a hotel room toilet…
Wasiullah Mohamed, executive director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, sits Friday with a taxi driver who was shot by a passenger last week. The victim, who asked not to be identified, said he was shot in the back for being Muslim. (Dominique Hildebrand/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) It began as an ordinary cab ride. But by the…
is this thing on? can you hear me now? Man, living in the future was supposed to include jet packs and flying cars, but instead all we got was terrorists who keep thinking of innovative ways to blow stuff up so we to take off our goddamn shoes at the airport. Oh, and we got…
A suspect is in police custody following an hours-long shooting standoff at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, where at least one police officer and two civilians were killed Friday. “The perpetrator is in custody,” Mayor John Suthers declared just after 5 p.m. Mountain time — more than five hours after an active shooter…
After what was likely a heated debate around the editorial desk, The New York Times decided to rework a story that described Robert Lewis Dear, the man who killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, as “gentle.” A story published on Saturday about Dear’s background used that adjective,…
The New York Times this morning has an op-ed by Al Jazeera host Mehdi Hasan, whom I regard as one of the world’s best television journalists. Its primary point is one that has been recently promoted by others such as MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: namely, that in the wake of 9/11, George W. Bush diligently avoided,…
Early one weekend morning in January 2014, Janet was sleeping fitfully in her parents’ home in Toronto. A junior studying elementary education at a nearby college, she had gone home for the weekend in a state of nervous collapse. For months, someone going by the name ‘‘Obnoxious’’ had been harassing her online. He had called…
Nov. 20, 2015 8:17 p.m. ET In the wake of the Paris attacks and a terrorist video showing images of Times Square, some schools have canceled field trips to New York City, even as officials insist the city is safe. Schools in New Jersey, Long Island and Maryland this week abandoned plans to visit Manhattan,…