Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
What do Joe Biden scented candles smell like? Certainly not Joe Biden, unless he walks around smelling like an orange all the time. The $22 candles are the best-selling item at the Delaware History Museum in Wilmington, regularly selling out thanks to still-strong home state “Joementum” even nearly two years after the former vice president left…
FERGUSON, MO – AUGUST 10: Demonstrators, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, protest along West Florrisant Street on August 10, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri. Mare than 100 people were arrested today during protests in Ferguson and the St. Louis area. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on…
New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. hates water so much he’ll fight through painful cramps rather than hydrate. “When you get that stomach — it’s all slushy,” he told reporters. “I’m trying to stay hydrated, but sometimes I just gotta get an IV.” Lori Cheek, however, has him beat: She’s landed in the…
The jobs-versus-mobs line also provides insight into the social media feedback loop between President Donald Trump and his supporters. | POLITICO Illustration/Getty Images The creator of ‘Dilbert,’ a Reddit user and Newt Gingrich all helped to make a random tweet part of Trump’s midterm stump speech. It used to take a fancy degree and political…
HF: So where does demonic possession come into play? SL: So in the medieval era, particularly between about 1300 to about 1600, this disease [ergotism], which we now know as food poisoning, was thought of as demonic possession. People would go to monasteries to be treated, where they most likely got better because they weren’t…
There is a family friend, a man I’ve known for decades. A highly educated man with total financial security in his recent retirement. A man who always had a good story to tell or an interesting side of a conversation to hold up. Then, a few years ago, he got on Facebook. Reading his timeline…
From left: Laura, Nathan, and Jocelyn. Photo: Courtesy of the subjects More than half of American adults plan to cast ballots in November, but only a third of people ages 18 to 29 say they will. Here, 12 young adults on why they probably won’t vote. (See also: Many reasons why you really, really should.)…
The FBI has been alerted to an alleged plot to discredit special prosecutor Robert Mueller after a woman said she’d been offered money to falsely say that he’d sexually harassed her. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the…
The creepy gas station from the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is still standing in Bastrop, Texas. Known simply as The Gas Station, this slice of movie history has been restored to look as it did in the 1974 movie and turned into a horror-themed BBQ joint and hotel. Owners Roy and Lisa Rose…
On Tuesday, October 16, President Donald Trump started tweeting. “The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!” “We have today informed the…