Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Cosmopolitan Woah. Viewing this on your phone? Pinch to zoom in Cosmopolitan covers started out with women dressed conservatively. Then they started showing some skin. Then more skin. Finally, they started posing in sexy positions. As women have earned more rights throughout the years, they’ve also earned the right to wear whatever they damn well…
Soon after the on-air shootings of two Virginia journalists, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other Democratic politicians called on Congress to take up gun control. “We have got to do something about gun violence in America — and I will take it on,” Clinton told reporters in Iowa. “There are many people who face it…
Posted August 26 The Washington Post is seeking several editors to join the Audience team. They will be part of a group of social media “embeds” who will work in our newsroom’s content sections. These embeds will search for opportunities to develop readership for Washington Post journalism on a wide variety of platforms, work with…
Greece’s top supreme court judge Vassiliki Thanou was named the head of a caretaker government to lead the country to elections, which are expected next month. Related: Greek election confusion raises fresh fears over ability to pay debts After a final effort to get political party leaders to form a coalition failed, the office of…
We live in an age of nerds. Sometimes I try to explain to my kids that I grew up in a time — a dark age known as The Eighties — when reading comic books, playing fantasy-based card games, watching Doctor Who, or being really into computers could get you publicly pantsed. There was a…
Blake Fall-Conroy’s Minimum Wage Machine “allows anybody to work for minimum wage,” and represents the grinding futility of those jobs that pay it. The hand-cranked machine pops out a penny every 4.5 seconds. If you turn it for an hour, you’ll earn yourself $8, which was New York State’s minimum wage until December 30,…
Photo via Flickr user Francis Storr In the modern world, it’s impossible to live ethically without going off the grid or killing yourself. If you did live off the grid (or didn’t live, period), you wouldn’t be reading this right now. But you are. Which means you—yes, you, in spite of your Prius with the…
Author and journalist Jessica Hopper isn’t shy about speaking up about all of the ways in which the music industry oppresses and attacks those in the margins. And so earlier this week, when she tweeted, “Gals/other marginalized folks: what was your 1st brush (in music industry, journalism, scene) w/ idea that you didn’t ‘count’?” people…
Wonkers, please introduce yourselves to porn star lady Danica Dillon. “Hi, Danica!” says the Wonkers. What kind of gross stuff does our new friend Danica have to tell us about Josh Duggar and the stuff he does with his penis? Oh, just that, while his wife, Anna, was heavy with child, Josh was heavy with a desire…
“The internet is full of shit and that’s making us all stupid.” via Why We Title Things The Way We Do – YouTube.