Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
“People come by and immediately want to see it, touch it and hold it,” Mr. Tollin said with pride. Today, as Mr. Trump tries to make peace with hostile figures in his party, the candidate renowned for his rhetorical flame throwing is deploying a conciliatory style of letter writing as his chief weapon. His handwritten…
Activists with the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere attempted to derail a Bernie Sanders speech last night in Oakland, wasting precious minutes of everyone’s time before being hauled away. CNN reports that Secret Service agents surrounded Sanders when members of Direct Action Everywhere attempted to climb onstage mid-speech and were promptly pulled out of…
The most important word in Donald Trump’s lexicon may be: “again.” The word anchors many of his signature declarations, as when he insists: “If I’m elected president, we will win again.” In a jab at the secularization of American life, he’s promised: “If I’m elected … we’re all going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again.”…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned reporters May 31, “I’m going to continue to attack the press.” He slammed members of the media as “dishonest” at a news conference about donations he raised for veterans’ groups at Trump Tower in New York. (Reuters) For 10 glorious days, I stepped off the hamster wheel. No newspapers….
“I don’t think they had a choice. I mean, probably they didn’t have a choice,” Donald Trump said of the Cincinnati Zoo’s decision to shoot and kill a gorilla. Usually when reporters ask about the gorilla in the room, it’s not an actual gorilla. Not so Tuesday, when between reporter queries about his potential running…
Some events are important to take note of. One of them happened on Friday when the Republican nominee for President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, again used a campaign rally to launch into a racist tirade against the federal judge presiding over two of the three fraud lawsuits against Trump’s now defunct “Trump…
In the grand scheme of things, eight seconds doesn’t sound like much, especially in the context of a long documentary about a complex issue like gun control. But in the current highly-charged political environment, nothing is as simple as it might seem at first, and former TV news anchor Katie Couric is learning that lesson…
Barrier Status: ‘none’ When Donald Trump appeared at the N.R.A.’s recent national convention, he had a simple message: Hillary Clinton “wants to take away your guns.” This was familiar rhetorical ground: warning of dire losses has been the core of Trump’s campaign. Free trade means that “we’re losing our jobs, we’re losing our money.” China’s…
I’m Voting For The Democrat In November Because I’m Not A Human Tire Fire This is for anybody wasting time online blathering about how Hillary and Trump are the same; how if Hillary gets the nomination, they won’t vote at all; or how they’re super-stoked to vote for a third party candidate because THEY HAVE…
After discussing Peter Thiel’s almost decade-long war on Gawker with many of my close friends and colleagues, I have decided to publicly post my views. But before I do so, let me get the elephant into the room. I am conflicted up the wazoo. Peter and I disagree on many topics political, social and economic. …