Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As I watched “The Ridiculous Six,” my mind kept returning to an old episode from the popular Web series “Half in the Bag.” While reviewing the comedy “Jack and Jill,” critic Jay Bauman came up with a list of stale tropes that predictably appear in all of Adam Sandler’s movies. Nestled between entries like “general…
A new study finds that the majority of people who were billionaires in 1995 are no longer billionaires. What happened, billionaires??? Bloomberg reports on a new UBS survey of what became of the 1995 class of the world’s richest people: More than half, or 56 percent, of people with at least $1 billion in net…
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The issue that the most Americans regard as the most important one facing our country right now is terrorism. Fear is more powerful than reason. Not that there has ever been a reason to doubt that. The American public’s priorities are a bizarro version of Short Attention Span Theater, with issues constantly flickering in and…
—Inae Oh on Tue. December 15, 2015 9:15 AM PDT As a Black Lives Matter protester was forcibly removed from a Donald Trump rally on Monday, supporters of the Republican frontrunner were heard yelling “kick his ass” and “light the motherfucker on fire.” And about ten minutes into the Trump rally, this happens. pic.twitter.com/65pXHjsJ3x…
In his well-known essay On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt defines bullshit as speech that is designed to impress but lacks a direct concern for the truth. Under such a definition, a large portion of what we read online today is likely to be bullshit. Some types of bullshit are political in nature, such as the misleading…
It’s bad enough that Silicon Valley trounces New York City in venture-capital investment every quarter. But now it turns out that a software engineer in New York City has a lower standard of living, based on earnings, than his counterparts in every other tech hub of the country, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle,…
Sen. Ted Cruz, left, speaks with Donald Trump during a Tea Party Patriots rally against the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill. (Pete Marovich/Bloomberg News) The ’80s synthpop classic “Maniac” tells the story of a “steel-town girl” trying to make it as a dancer in a world where “no one sees her at all.” It’s…
From director Justin Lin comes STAR TREK BEYOND starring Idris Elba, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zach Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Karl Urban. In theaters July 22nd. Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), a leading content company with…
If you haven’t been watching Jessica Jones on Netflix, then allow me to be the 1,000th person to recommend it to you. The leads range from good to great, the visuals are excellent, and the core dilemmas are interesting and emotionally engaging. The show’s great strength and weakness is that it is committed to showing a…