Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Over the course of the day we’ve had a handful of readers write in to ask or demand that we not report the name of the shooter, Chris Harper Mercer, in the Oregon school massacre. As the massacres continue, an increasing number of people think that we should expunge the names of the offenders both…
div.fin_story_menu Story Photos Photos » ROSEBURG, Ore. – A man who rushed to try and stop the shooter on the Umpqua Community College campus Thursday is now recovering at the hospital. Army veteran Chris Mintz, 30, was shot 7 times when he tried to stop the gunman in Thursday’s mass shooting….
No amount of murder seems likely to result in gun control any time soon. So let’s do what we can to stop the lunacy—by reserving the limelight for the vet who rushed Thursday’s shooter. Think of Chris Mintz, who was shot while rushing a killer on his son’s sixth birthday. Forget the zero and remember…
An Avant filling station during a recent water outage in Rio Grande City. Photo by Spencer Selvidge. Turn on the faucet. Fill a glass with water. Drink it. Acts so commonplace you perform them without thinking twice. Flora Barraza cannot. Neither can José Garcia, nor the cooks at Los Pasteles Bakery No. 2, nor the…
Photo Dan Quinn was relieved of his Special Forces command after a fight with a U.S.-backed militia leader who had a boy as a sex slave chained to his bed. Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father…
A Texas man was arrested and charged with making a false police report on Friday after allegedly defacing his own car and blaming it on supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, the NY Daily News reports. Earlier this month, Scott Lattin of Whitney, Texas told KDFW that vandals had spray-painted “Black Lives Matter” and…
It isn’t hard to see why nothing bad has ever quite touched Kevin Johnson, mayor of Sacramento, Calif., even as he’s authored a long series of lurid sex and corruption scandals, any one of which would have ended the career of a less fortunate man. Johnson is a youngish, attractive Democrat with a reputation as…
Definitive proof that ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed is smarter than police officers who arrested him Sep 16, 2015 8:38am PDT by Shaun King 51 65 Please log in or sign up to continue. On September 14, ninth-grade engineering whiz and NASA fanboy Ahmed Mohamed was confronted, interrogated, handcuffed, arrested, and jailed after bringing a homemade clock…
Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Delta State University history professor Ethan A. Schmidt(Photo: Delta State University) 2:59 p.m. update: Lamb’s Facebook page says he received his doctorate this year, and he tells people that it may have “dropped off the face of the earth for the past 18 months or so.” Meanwhile…
A collection of advocacy groups from around the world on Friday released an open letter to Twitter, calling on the company to restore API access to Politiwoops, a site that archived politicians’ deleted tweets. In May, Twitter pulled the American version of Politiwoops’ API access, and followed suit with the international editions last month. In…