Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I’m not sure exactly how to explain how little I care about Scully and Mulder’s child. Intellectually, I get how this could be a useful, and powerful, story hook. It underlines how much our heroes’ quest has unsettled their personal lives, and serves as a constant reminder of what they’ve sacrificed; William binds Mulder and…
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia during a statement delivered in Rancho Mirage, California February 13, 2016. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Republican White House hopefuls insisted that President Barack Obama step aside and let his successor nominate the next Supreme Court justice, in a…
Washington Post reporter Robert Barnes explains where the Supreme Court stands after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and how the vacant seat will impact the presidential election. (Whitney Leaming/The Washington Post) After Justice Antonin Scalia’s death Saturday at 79, the Supreme Court is now evenly divided between four liberal justices and four conservatives, even…
What are the legal and political implications of Antonin Scalia’s sudden death? First, in regard to the legal status of all cases currently before the Supreme Court, all of Scalia’s votes on those cases no longer count. Justices cast their initial votes on cases in a conference, and the task of writing the majority opinion…
His death set off an immediate debate about whether President Barack Obama should fill the seat in an election year. Obama said Saturday night that he plans to nominate a replacement, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the nomination should wait until the next president comes into office while top Democrat Harry Reid called…
I feel sorry for men on Valentine’s Day. It’s sexist of me, I know. The day isn’t gender-specific but my feelings are. They’re the result of observations I’ve made over the years since I was first made aware of the red envelopes, unlikely handwriting and whispering. The talk seemed to be a female thing. The…
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When a group of computer science students decided to study the way that gender bias plays out in software development communities, they assumed that coders would be prejudiced against code written by women. After all, women make up a very small percentage of software developers – 11.2% according to one 2013 survey – and the…
In a detective novel, you begin in a state of ignorance and advance toward knowledge, clue by clue. The little indicators add up at last to a revelation that sets the world to right and sees that justice is done, or at least provides the satisfaction of a world made clear in the end. If…
There’s got to be a better way you could have put that, CDC. In an effort to raise awareness of and prevent fetal alcohol syndrome, on Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued sweeping recommendations on alcohol consumption. And they got a mite preachy about it. “More than 3 million US women are…