Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The liberal side of the internet has a serious problem in the form of far too many websites that people mistake for actual news sites that use clickbait headlines and highly distorted articles to feed into the confirmation bias of their intended audience. And it works. Far too many people, including some of you I’m…
Black men who try to avoid an encounter with Boston police by fleeing may have a legitimate reason to do so — and should not be deemed suspicious — according to a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Citing Boston police data and a 2014 report by the ACLU of Massachusetts that found blacks were disproportionately…
GARY, Ind. (AP) — Donald Trump swooped into Gary, Indiana, on his private jet and pledged to make the down-on-its-luck city great again. It was 1993, and the New York mogul was wooing officials in the mostly black city to support his bid to dock a showboat casino along a Lake Michigan shoreline littered with…
I live in Manhattan, in Chelsea, on 27th Street between 6th and 7th, the same block in which the second IED was found. It was a surreal weekend, but it is increasingly becoming depressing as the media moves from providing information to stoking fear, the exact response that makes these events so effective. I’m not…
When Jimmy Fallon talked to Donald Trump on The Tonight Show last week, he ruffled the presidential candidate’s hair. Seth Meyers, the host of Fallon’s former show Late Night, had a slightly different message for the Republican presidential candidate last night. “Obama was born in the United States, period?” he asked mockingly, repeating Trump’s recent…
Polls show Trump and Clinton in a virtual tie. Unfortunately, this is not a virtual election. For Part Two: https://youtu.be/6sF5dRxk000 Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee next week for our Presidential Debate Special on Wednesday, September 28 at 10:30/ 9:30c on TBS! Source: Too Close for Comfort (Act 1, Part 1) | Full Frontal with…
The ACLU of Connecticut is suing state police for fabricating retaliatory criminal charges against a protester after troopers were recorded discussing how to trump up charges against him. In what seems like an unlikely stroke of cosmic karma, the recording came about after a camera belonging to the protester, Michael Picard, was illegally seized…
It’s been a rough year, and the 2016 Emmys had everything we needed: surprises, laughs, and an incredible hosting job from Jimmy Kimmel. But what makes a really great awards show is what happens between awards and acceptance speeches, and Sunday’s broadcast was one of the most amusing and character-driven programs in years. From sandwiches…
So, you think you love science? What does that mean to you, exactly? For most people, I’m guessing it means something like this: Image: NASA Or perhaps something like this: Image: National Institutes of Health That’s not what science is, though. That’s data, and like countless “Principal Investigators” of the science world (the professors who…
Guest column: Kemper Smith of the audience insights company Parse.ly says the company expects that given the contentious campaign and the limited opportunities for the candidates to meet face-to-face, one can expect the debates to generate web traffic peaks that rival those in the primary and conventions T/.dropcaphe nominees for President of the United States…