Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Former Australian rugby league star Jarryd Hayne made his NFL debut for the 49ers on Monday and thank god we had an Australian there to help us make sense of it all. The Guardian assigned Sydney-based freelancer Matt Cleary to live-blog the game from Levi’s Stadium. “I don’t admit to knowing a motherlode about American football,” Clearly admitted at…
Mike Hytner To borrow Australian spill parlance of yesterday, it is on! Having avoided being listed as “inactive”, Jarryd Hayne is in the running to make his NFL debut in tonight’s game in California, although if he does it’s unlikely he will do so in a running role – far more likely he will feature…
“There’s one thing that I have in common with every person in this room. We’re all trying really hard to figure out how to save the world.” The speaker, Cat Lavigne, paused for a second, and then she repeated herself. “We’re trying to change the world!” Lavigne was addressing attendees of the Effective Altruism Global…
Photo Dan Quinn was relieved of his Special Forces command after a fight with a U.S.-backed militia leader who had a boy as a sex slave chained to his bed. Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father…
end of wrapper Jeb Bush got trolled Saturday in a hilarious photobomb by young people wearing Republicans for Sanders T-shirts. Some claim these kids wore coats, then unzipped them to reveal the logos on their T-shirts just before CNN reporter Tal Kopan snapped the photo. But the Jeb! campaign insists Bush knew what was going on and posed anyway. Why?…
A Texas man was arrested and charged with making a false police report on Friday after allegedly defacing his own car and blaming it on supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, the NY Daily News reports. Earlier this month, Scott Lattin of Whitney, Texas told KDFW that vandals had spray-painted “Black Lives Matter” and…
“And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”. The image in question purported to show a group of Syrian refugees holding ISIS flags and attacking German police officers. For those resistant to accepting refugees…
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina wasn’t the greatest chief executive officer in corporate history. That much we can all agree on. Assessments of her 5 1/2 years in charge of tech giant Hewlett-Packard are everywhere these days, most of them negative. Fiorina herself offered a less-than-convincing defense in Wednesday night’s debate — yes, the company’s…
“Shout out to Tracy Morgan, we’ll see you next year, Tracy,” Jimmy Kimmel said at last year’s Emmy Awards, and would you look at that? He was right. Morgan was the “very special guest” at this year’s Emmys and his return to the awards show’s stage to present Best Drama was the highlight of the…
A new biography of the prime minister, written by former Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft and ex-Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott, is being serialised in the Daily Mail. The book – entitled “Call Me Dave” – claims that Cameron carried out the act on a dead pig while at a meeting of the university’s elite…