Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo Credit Brian Rea When a total stranger kissed me under the artificial lights of an airplane cabin somewhere above international waters, my first thought was of the Orthodox woman sitting to my left. I hoped she was asleep. It was a 12-hour flight from Tel Aviv to Newark, and I wanted to nap too,…
ONE of the perks of getting old is that you are allowed to talk nonsense about the young. Plato was said to have complained that young people “disrespect their elders” and “ignore the law”. Peter the Hermit griped that they “think of nothing but themselves” and are “impatient of all restraint”. Today, grizzled business pundits…
Young men today have aspirations of being hands-on fathers as well as breadwinners — supportive husbands who also do dishes. But as they enter that more responsibility-filled stage of life, something changes: Their roles often become much more traditional. Millennial men — ages 18 to early 30s — have much more egalitarian attitudes about family,…
“Millennials,” a demographic group defined by a slavish devotion to “keeping it real” by purchasing the correct consumer products, are now old enough to be “out there” in the world, “doing their thing.” Instead, they are living at home. Of course, it is not the fault of the millennial generation that they are living at…
What are your odds of being a millionaire, do you think? One in 10? One in 50? One in 100? If you’re over 62, your odds of having at least $1 million in net wealth (your total assets minus your total debt) are relatively achievable — about 1 in 7. But if you are under 40,…
Entry Text Millennials may be spending more for college and racking up record debt, but they don’t mind, according to a new survey of 500 university graduates by Credit Sesame. In summary, despite the skyrocketing cost of higher education, Millennials (individuals born between 1981 and 2004) have a more positive opinion of college than Gen…
Michael Wolff, USA TODAY 2:04 p.m. EDT July 13, 2015 The news media, like most businesses built on craft and culture, have largely worked as an apprentice system. Younger people learned skills and language from older people. A good media job would have been judged on the basis of the caliber of the more senior…
… Rich parents. Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters We noticed that you have an AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > Millions of America’s young people are really struggling financially. Around 30 percent are living with their parents,…
Lesbian, teen, stepmom, MILF, squirt. Lesbian, teen, stepmom, MILF, squirt. These aren’t just the perfect list of words for meditative chanting, but rather the top porn search terms typed stickily in by millennials, according to Pornhub. Viewed beside the next top five terms—mom, step sister, Japanese, threesome, massage—and it appears that being chill and progressive…
Entry Text John Green gets way more attention than the average young adult author. I’m not sure if it’s because of the major success of The Fault in Our Stars and its film adaptation, his other books or his YouTube channel. That means that a lot of different people are going to have different opinions…