Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I am terrible at sharing the bed. When my boyfriend travels out of town, my first thought is how much space I will take up in the bed while he’s gone. I know people who claim to sleep on their same side when their partners are gone, the place reserved for the body of their…
Three white high school football players at Dietrich High School in Idaho have been charged in the October 2015 rape of their black disabled teammate. The alleged victim’s family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the school. Here’s what you need to know. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) When a teammate held out his arms after football practice…
Recently, housing resource site Abodo released a study showing the most hate-filled places in America according to their tweets. Now, CollegeStats.org, a group that compiles data on America’s colleges and universities, has prepared a similar report for schools in America. They looked at tweets originating from within one mile of a college campus center with…
Members of Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society put on production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” — and the actors were all female and all nude. The show, that took place in Central Park on May 19 and 20, was completely legal because in New York City you are allowed to be fully nude — as long…
Last month, law firm Baker & Hostetler announced that it would employ IBM’s artificially intelligent lawyer, Ross, to help ease its tedious workload. In a statement, the firm’s chief technology officer said, “we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to…
300ad The Huffington Post’s own Executive Editor Liz Heron, a self described Brooklynite Mom, tweeted a photo of an Editors Meeting at the Huffington Post main headquarters. The photo was meant to be a positive publicity stunt for the media giant. Only she didn’t expect to get the firestorm over the photo that followed. In…
The bad blood between pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke, her onetime mentor, has been getting nastier and nastier for years now. After a movement by fans to cut her loose from a contract they called exploitative (#FreeKesha), charges of the producer insulting her weight and provoked an eating disorder, and a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment…
Here’s what you need to know about a piece of legislation passed in the Oklahoma House and Senate May 19 that would make it illegal for doctors to perform abortions that weren’t necessary to save the life of the mother. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) Lawmakers in Oklahoma approved a bill Thursday that would make performing…
SAN FRANCISCO — Police Chief Gregory P. Suhr was forced out on Thursday after a fatal shooting of a black woman by a police officer, the third killing since December involving the police force, which is under federal investigation because of complaints of racial bias. Mayor Edwin M. Lee said he had asked for Chief…
We can quibble about where it stands in the TV canon, but “Sex and the City” has seven Emmys and a suite of Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards. It ran 94 episodes through six seasons on a premium cable network. Any reasonable person should concede that “Sex and the City” was an above-average…