Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
“Video games are a boy thing,” my sister explains to me. “I feel like it’s a known fact. GameStop is a boy store. The commercials are for boys. It’s just something everyone knows.” My sister is 17. She runs a One Direction fan Twitter with 10,000 followers. She plans to major in fashion marketing. She’s…
Four years ago, she introduced the world to the most hated (and maddeningly unforgettable) song in a generation, was passed over by the music industry, and turned into a punchline — all before she was old enough for a learner’s permit. Now 18, Rebecca Black is too famous to be normal and too normal…
Photo: Getty Images In the fallout since the first GOP debate, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has found himself caught between Donald Trump, who has the full backing of Fox’s misogynist audience, and Megyn Kelly, the star anchor whom Ailes has nurtured and sees as the key to reaching younger viewers. For a few days, Ailes didn’t know how to handle…
Jam Preserves Hello! Matt & Han here with an important message about Jam. After nearly a year assessing many options, we’ve decided to stop operating This Is My Jam in its current form. Read on to learn about why the two of us have made this decision, but first: 1. Your jams are not going…
Politics are all about antics, from blowhard rhetoric to orchestrated photo ops and theatrical debates. The Contender—a new game from the Oakland branding and design studio Guts & Glory, John Teasdale, and Justin Young—capitalizes on the latter. Think of it as Cards Against Humanity meets the campaign trail, with a didactic angle. The game is…
Beinecke LibraryInsisting “It is well established that jury nullification is neither a right of the defendant nor a defense recognized by law,” the New Hampshire Supreme Court this morning eviscerated a law that was openly intended and widely interpreted as a shot in the arm for the right of jurors to consider the law as…
KTRKWhat is it with Texas cops and roadside vaginal searches? Last May I described three strikingly similar cases in which Texas troopers fruitlessly looked for marijuana in the private parts of women pulled over for minor traffic offenses. The incidents were outrageous enough to inspire a new law requiring a warrant for such searches, which…
The Jury by John MorganI spent a day last week immersed in Los Angeles County’s immense judicial system downtown after being summoned to jury duty. My experience was not quite as vividly terrible as Matt Welch’s in New York, partly because Los Angeles lets you complete your questionnaire and orientation videos online well in advance,…
Bristol Palin took to her blog Monday to vent against RedState editor Erick Erickson and Fox News, arguing that Republicans are “just as bad” as liberals in manipulating public opinion. “I used to use this blog to point out how liberals use the ‘outrage industry’ to manipulate people and keep their power. Now Republicans are…
Megyn Kelly broke her silence on her feud with Donald Trump during her Fox News show Monday. The friction stems from Thursday’s Republican primary debate, where Trump took issue with Kelly’s question about his previous comments about women. On Friday, Trump told CNN that Kelly “bombed” and that she had “blood coming out of her wherever.”…