Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
McDonald’s is leaving a sour taste in people’s mouths that has nothing to do with food. Fans of the animated series “Rick and Morty” are livid at the fast food chain after it promised to bring back its 1998 Szechuan sauce for just one day but reportedly only gave 20 packets to each location. Some fans reported…
apple logo stitcher John Meehan bragged frequently about his supposed ties to organized crime, and claimed to trace his bloodline to the prolific East Coast hit man who had run Murder Inc. itself. It had the ring of empty boasting from a man who lived by lies. What is believable is that he approved…
apple logo stitcher This couple is all wrong, the lawyer thought. There sat the husband, John Meehan, glowering wrathfully as he plotted legal mayhem on his enemies. There sat the wife, Debra Newell, soft-voiced and love-struck and helplessly in his grip. As he gazed across a conference-room table at his newest clients in April…
apple logo stitcher The private investigator told Debra Newell how to make herself a difficult target. Change hotels every few nights. Study the crowd before she entered a room. Ditch her stylish clothes for bland ones. Get a wig to cover her conspicuous blond hair. Blend in. She dreaded that she would meet the…
The Stranger Back in January, I e-mailed Dr. Greg Johnson, organizer of Northwest Forum, Seattle’s hottest closed-door white nationalist convention, asking for an interview on the latest in regional racism. He turned me down. Thanks to the internet, the far right no longer needs the mainstream media to get its message out. Print, television, and…
apple logo stitcher He had lavished her with compliments, and now he savaged her looks. He had entered the marriage broke, and now he demanded half her wealth. He had been gentleness itself, and now he threatened her with “long-lost relatives” in the mob. “Enough,” Debra Newell texted him. “You are evil.” “Divide…
After church one Sunday, Debra Newell walked into the living room with her husband to find a woman she did not recognize. The stranger sat trance-like before the big window that overlooked Newport Harbor, a thin, weathered woman in her late 30s or early 40s. She had just used the shower; her curly blond hair…
Their first date was at Houston’s, a restaurant in Irvine, where he opened the door for her and put her napkin on her lap. Candles flickered along the polished-mahogany bar; jazz drifted from speakers; conversation purred. Debra Newell had taken pains to look good. Her cornsilk-blond hair fell in waves over her shoulders. High black…
“It’s not hard to find great women in engineering,” Sara Mauskopf, CEO and co-founder of parenting technology company Winnie, told Refinery29. “Winnie has attracted a majority-female engineering team including our head of engineering who is also a woman. It turns out when you build an inclusive environment that’s supportive of women, and parents, and has…
At the Interior Department’s headquarters in downtown Washington, Secretary Ryan Zinke has revived an arcane military ritual that no one can remember ever happening in the federal government. A security staffer takes the elevator to the seventh floor, climbs the stairs to the roof and hoists a special secretarial flag whenever Zinke enters the building….