Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
“I’m free! I’m free!” Screenshot: Walt Disney Pictures For the first time in twenty years, as the Atlantic points out, a whole year’s worth of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the U.S. on January 1, 2019. Under the terms of the Sonny Bono Copyright Act, works first published in 1923 will enter…
Screenshot: Fox News (YouTube) On Monday afternoon, attorneys for President Donald Trump’s embattled lawyer Michael Cohen revealed that thumb-shaped Fox News ghoul Sean Hannity was a secret client of Cohen’s. And while the revelation was met with laughter both inside the courtroom and across the rest of the media, it led to everyone at Fox…
Photo: Getty During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton famously warned voters against voting for Donald Trump because “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” Now, we’ve learned that the person doing the actual baiting is, in fact, none other than President Trump himself….
Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) President Donald Trump hasn’t actually fired special counsel Robert Mueller yet, but for some reason, city officials in Pittsburgh are already planning to clamp down hard on protests that might erupt if he does. In an email obtained by WTAE reporter Marcie Cipriani, Pittsburgh Police Commander Victor Joseph instructed his…
Donated water bottles in Flint in 2016. Photo: AP If residents in Flint, Michigan, need some bottled water, they can’t rely on the state anymore. The city of nearly 100,000 is still reeling—nearly four years later—from a crisis that left residents (and their children) exposed to dangerous levels of lead in their water supply. However,…
Screencap/Linda Maloney (used with permission) Photo: Linda Maloney Tammie Jo Shults, reportedly one of the pilots responsible for landing the Southwest Airlines flight 1380 that experienced an engine explosion earlier today, was also one of the first women pilots in the Navy and one of the first women to fly the F/A 18 fighter jet….
Far Cry 5 suggests a world on the brink of a violence apocalypse, but the game’s sanitized gameplay and clean-cut power fantasy ultimately ring hollow. If the series wants to make a case for human savagery, it should look back to Far Cry 2, a game that wasn’t afraid to let things break. In his…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), announcing that he will not seek re-election for another term in Congress, during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 11, 2018 Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) On Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced that he would not be seeking re-election and would retire…
Police monitor activity as protestors demonstrate outside a Center City Starbucks on April 15, 2018, in Philadelphia. Police arrested two black men who were waiting inside the Starbucks, which prompted an apology from the company’s CEO. Photo: Mark Makela (Getty Images) “Don’t you fucking walk away! Don’t fucking walk away from me!” the 20-something-year-old woman…
Photo: iStock I recently went on the world’s longest first date. It was in Vegas, it lasted 48 hours and it was magnificent. He treated me like a queen and never said no to anything I asked. I’ll tell you about the date in a separate column, because it warrants its own space, but the…