Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Watch Hillary Clinton in the debates or in interviews, and she’s confident, focused, and seems ready to be president. But a long-building wave may be cresting, and it could do real damage to Clinton’s chances. A new New York Times story describes Lena Dunham – who enjoys a heavy following from both Millennials and Gen…
Hot Octopuss Times Square may have cornered the market on romantic love, but the corner of 28th Street and 5th Avenue has become the go-to place in NYC for fans of onanistic self-love. London-based sex toy company Hot Octopuss opened the “GuyFi” booth at that location this week as a way for men to…
The latest dirt being flung at presidential candidate Hillary Clinton comes by way of GOP rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who suggested at an Iowa campaign stump on Friday that Clinton should receive a spanking. Now, the Internet is trying to give Cruz a walloping of his own. Over the course of her political career, Clinton has…
article start Films featuring black actors were shut out of the main categories when the nominations for the 2016 Academy Awards were announced this morning, prompting some movie fans to voice their outrage on social media. No people of color were nominated for best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, or best supporting actress and…
Was I raped? In 1998, I was 24 years old. Somehow, though I have zero musical talent, I found myself in a band—as the vocalist, no less. We didn’t perform anywhere, although I think that might have been the ultimate goal. Really, we just met up at a studio in Jersey City, where I lived…
View this image › 1978. Van Buren, Arkansas, Bill Clinton on a visit to Juanita Broaddrick’s (right) nursing home Getty Images / Getty Images ID: 7761199 NBC News pursued, but ultimately did not obtain, an on-air interview with Juanita Broddrick, the woman who 17 years ago publicly accused Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her in…
Photo: Diane Bondareff/AP Photo. A (formerly) pregnant woman in New York City has an Uber horror story that will definitely beat yours, no matter how long your driver listened to the Dave Matthews Band. Fortune reports that when David Lee’s wife went into labor last November, they ordered an Uber to take them and…
WARNING: STAR WARS SPOILERS AHEAD! It’s the late 1970s. My parents are visiting with friends, and I’ve been relegated to the upstairs room with the other kids even though I’d prefer to be sitting downstairs with the adults. There’s a television upstairs, and a VCR, and a movie playing on the screen. It shows a…
A recent report finds that 60 percent of women working in the tech industry in Silicon Valley have experienced sexual harassment. A staggering 90 percent of the women interviewed in the study, which was titled Elephant in the Valley, reportedly “witnessed sexist behavior at company offsites and/or industry conferences.” In other cases, the sexism women…
Anyone wishing to understand why thousands of Western-born Muslims are leaving comfortable homes to fight with Isis would do well to watch Deeyah Khan’s powerful new film Jihad: A British Story. The award-winning filmmaker spent 18 months interviewing some of the founding fathers of jihad in the UK out of a “personal obsessive curiosity” to…