Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When Hillary Clinton ditched government email in favor of a secret, personal address, it wasn’t just an affront to Obama’s vaunted transparency agenda—security experts consulted by Gawker have laid out a litany of potential threats that may have exposed her email conversations to potential interception by hackers and foreign intelligence agencies. “It is almost certain…
Hillary Clinton told the world that the reason she exclusively used her personal email as Secretary of State because she “wanted the simplicity of using one device.” But thanks to a FOIA request, we now know that Clinton used multiple devices for email, including an iPad and a BlackBerry. She also mixed her personal emails…
Patton Oswalt’s late-night Twitter essay: “Welcome to comedy in 2015, Trevor Noah” – Salon.com.
Ever since Jon Stewart announced that he would be leaving The Daily Show after 16 long years behind the desk, the question has been who, on earth, could take his place? Fans thought they had an answer earlier today when longtime Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee tweeted this intriguing statement: The day is exciting, but…
Barney Frank (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite) Barney Frank has a new autobiography out. He’s long been one of the nation’s most quotable politicians. And Washington lives in perpetual longing for intra-party conflict. So why has a critical revelation from Frank’s book, one that implicates the most powerful Democrat in the nation, been entirely expunged from…
Microsoft is going back to the basics for a joke at the expense of Windows Phone today. What do you do when your smartphone operating system has less than three percent market share worldwide? Reboot. While the software giant isn’t quite dramatically rebooting all over again, it has genuinely launched an MS-DOS mobile app for Windows Phone…
The Associated Press Stylebook announced some changes last week at the annual conference of the American Copy Editors Society. (Full disclosure: This columnist, as president of the ACES Education Fund, is a member of the ACES board.) While none of the changes are as momentous as last year’s “over/more than” proclamation, they reflected an increased…