Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Print ad sales slip 13.3 percent as newspaper giant releases earnings hours after Gannett abandons takeover bid Brian Flood | November 1, 2016 @ 1:42 PM tronc Tronc unveiled its third-quarter 2016 earnings on Tuesday with revenues of $378 million, down 6.9 percent compared to $406 million in the third quarter of 2015. Only one analyst weighed in,…
Trump not sharing his giant umbrella with indentured friend Chris Christie. Photo: AP Life has been cruel to former Trump manservant Chris Christie of late, but, then again, few merit it more. Before Donald Trump announced Mike Pence as his running mate, many speculated that the Faustian honor would go to Christie, who had reportedly…
Sarandon speaks during a rally outside US District Court in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers to protect their water and land from the Dakota Access Pipeline. Photo via AP Your wokest aunt Saran Sarandon, who once suggested Donald…
A headline in The Daily Mail Tuesday asks the question, “Did Amelia Earhart die a castaway after crashing on a Pacific island?” Though I’ve never seen her bones or examined her plane’s wreckage or fingered through old files documenting her many distress calls, I feel confident answering that question with an emphatic yes. Yes, Amelia…
Drake is a Canadian rapper who believes in true love but consistently falls victim to treacherous women who tend to hold his emotions captive. He fears he’ll forever be rich and lonely. He may or may not believe he’s Jamaican. Taylor Swift is a conniving white American singer from Pennsylvania and a slick human machine…
Image by Tara Jacoby, featuring the shade artist at a young age. Hello. We are all here, on this Earth, breathing in and out, trying to stay sane and hydrated. One day at a time, everyone. One very, very, very long day at a time. In this week’s Shade Court, Katy Perry is probably still…
Last Tuesday, The Harvard Crimson exposed a document created by the 2012 Harvard men’s soccer team called a “scouting report,” which assessed and scored the incoming recruits for the women’s soccer team based on their perceived attractiveness. The women who are still playing for the team from that year decided to respond in an open…
In its Date Lab series, the Washington Post matches two D.C.-area singles, sends them out on a blind date, and interviews them afterwards. Obviously, this doesn’t always work out. This week’s Date Lab featured Erica, a 27-year-old project analyst, and Anda, a 32-year-old entrepreneur. Here’s how Anda describes his goals: I’ve been on hundreds of…
GIF Image via Getty, gif by Bobby Finger. The other night, while high Googling before bed, I got to thinking about the Bushes, in general, and Barbara Bush, in particular. I told my husband about how I think she cuts quite an intimidating figure and he agreed. So, I wondered, how tall is this woman…
Trying to stave off the very real possibility that independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin could actually win Utah’s six electoral votes instead of Donald Trump, a white nationalist supporter of the GOP nominee is targeting 190,000 Utah voters with a robocall attacking McMullin and accusing him of being secretly gay. “Evan is over 40 years old…