Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
SEO Specialist The Times is seeking an SEO specialist to help develop search strategy and contribute to news operations. The specialist will work extensively with partners across the newsroom and wider organization to incorporate search strategy in how the daily news report is conceived and distributed; evangelize SEO best practices; and help to incorporate this…
Have you ever wondered what kind of information DEA narcs are trading internally about the durably popular subculture known as “rave parties”? Wonder no more, for non-profit news site Muckrock has FOIA’ed up just that for you, and boy is she a beauty. In the course of researching the DEA’s files on chemist Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, known…
It may be difficult to imagine, but just a few decades ago there was a time when citizens felt there wasn’t much to choose from when it came to politics in the US. Almost all politicians were seen to hover somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum. In that environment, it did not seem…
BREAKING: At least 10 people were killed and dozens of others injured when two suicide bombers attacked Istanbul’s main international airport Tuesday night. Turkey’s justice minister confirmed the death toll from the blasts outside Ataturk Airport’s international terminal. A Turkish official told The Washington Post that the two bombers blew themselves up at the terminal entrance…
SUNDERLAND, England — In places like Sunderland, with its once-robust shipyards silent and dead and its citizens leery of both London and Brussels, the idea of the European Union never really took hold. Although the once-proud working-class city in England’s northeast heartland benefited from the bloc, the campaign that became known as “Brexit” found many adherents and…
The movie’s take on the classic character. Source: Benedict Wong Talks New Direction For Doctor Strange Role In just a few months Marvel‘s Doctor Strange will be traveling to theaters. While we got a taste of the film via the teaser trailer, we haven’t really seen one of the key characters in Doctor Strange’s life,…
Turns out it was just mind control after all, despite Marvel’s claims that it wasn’t. (SPOILERS) Source: ComicBook.com According to an EXXXCLUSIVE report on ComicBook.com, Marvel is already planning to reveal that their shocking twist that Steve Rogers has always been a Hydra agent, which occurred less than a month ago in Captain America: Steve…
As the parent of a toddler, there are multiple, competing opinions about basically every decision I make in regards to my almost three-year-old’s life. One thing that you get pretty universal criticism about, though, is putting an electronic device into the hands of a tiny person. Rest assured, my daughter has never tried to swipe…
WASHINGTON — Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday, finding no new evidence of culpability or wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton in the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead. The 800-page report, however, included…
In 1934, at the dawn of the Stalinist Terror, the great Russian writer Isaac Babel offered a daring quip at the International Writers Conference in Moscow: “Everything is given to us by the party and the government. Only one right is taken away: the right to write badly.” Sidebar The Return of Lesser Evilism…