Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Despite having been accused by pop star Kesha (Rose Sebert) of allegedly having abused, drugged and raped her, producer Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald) still has contractual control over Kesha’s career. On Friday, Kesha and her attorney Mark Geragos asked for a preliminary injunction that would end the long-standing paralysis this has created (it began last October) and free Kesha…
In the sleek, cold lobby of the Langham Place hotel in Midtown Manhattan, one of those thoroughly designed spaces in which one cannot find a right angle, much less a comfortable chair, the 68-year-old, 7-foot-2 former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was sitting on a leather bench with his arms draped around his protruding knees. It was…
START “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 END “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 The United States seems poised to follow up its summer of religious freedom with an autumn of Islamophobia. Last week, in New Hampshire, Donald Trump was questioned by a man who said President Obama was a foreign Muslim…
At a Marriott hotel in Atlanta, the soap dispensers have a little bit of a race problem. An African-American guest of the Dragon Con sci-fi and fantasy convention visited a bathroom in the event’s host hotel and discovered the soap dispenser, from a British company called Technical Concepts, wouldn’t sense his hands. When his friend, a white…
Every so often, someone (always a man) sends me a casual tweet asking why he can’t retweet me. Of course, the obvious answer is that my account is locked—a tiny optional blessing of Twitter’s functionality that means I’m not searchable to the world outside. The more complex answer relates to why my account is locked…
In this 2012 file photo, students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school’s iconic tower. The University of Texas was among 27 top universities to participate in a joint study of sexual assault on the nation’s campuses. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) The Association of American Universities on Monday released the…
Pope Francis blesses the faithful at his weekly audience. Aug. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Earlier this year, Pope Francis announced an “extraordinary” Jubilee Year devoted to mercy. Jubilee, or Holy Years, have a long tradition in Christianity and Judaism and often focus on repentance and forgiveness. In Catholicism, ordinary Jubilee Years happen about every…
Photo Dan Quinn was relieved of his Special Forces command after a fight with a U.S.-backed militia leader who had a boy as a sex slave chained to his bed. Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father…
A Texas man was arrested and charged with making a false police report on Friday after allegedly defacing his own car and blaming it on supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, the NY Daily News reports. Earlier this month, Scott Lattin of Whitney, Texas told KDFW that vandals had spray-painted “Black Lives Matter” and…
Influential tweeter Richard Dawkins, whose intellectual rigor never ceases to amaze, makes the very good, necessary, and important point that, in claiming his reassembled clock as an “invention,” Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas teenager arrested last week on suspicion of building a bomb, committed fraud. Advertisement All right, guy. H/T @keplyq. Contact the author of…