Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in the latest round of affirmative action cases heard before the Supreme Court, is the perfect villain in a liberal morality play about the evils of racism. Fisher’s case before the Supreme Court, in which she demanded that she be admitted to the University of Texas at Austin despite not having the…
The Only True Leftist in America (TM) with the possible exception of Freddie deBoer looks like he has something to say: Let’s start out with Bernie Sanders. Despite your similarity on issues, he’s running as a Democrat, rather than a third-party candidate, like you did. How do you think that’s influenced the race? I don’t…
Image caption “Mahalet and the honeymilk,” by Meg Griffiths, from the series Honeymilk End K2 Item Layout JoomlaWorks “K2” (v2.7.0) | Learn more about K2 at http://getk2.org //MAIN CONTENT SIDEBAR RIGHT //SIDEBAR RIGHT SPOTLIGHT 2 //SPOTLIGHT 2 In late March, Eater published a Hillary Dixler essay, “How Gullah Cuisine Has Transformed Charleston Dining.” The title was clickbait….
Two New York Times employees are suing the newspaper, citing “an environment rife with discrimination based on age, race, and gender”. The class action lawsuit comes the same week that Curt Schilling accused ESPN of a culture of racism. Schilling was recently fired from his role as a commentator at the sports channel after making…
Get the five stories that will challenge you to rethink the world by signing up for MicCheck Daily. Love of the Force has awakened once again with the release of the first trailer for forthcoming Star Wars spinoff movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. There’s lots of things to look forward to from the trailer. At the most…
When news of Peeple, the so-called “Yelp for people” that lets you rate anyone you know like a restaurant, swept the web last year, I was horrified. A tool that lets my abusive ex-boyfriend write whatever he wants about me and post it for the Internet to see? A tool that lets anyone with my…
The latest installment of “The Internet Explodes with Hatred for Hillary Clinton” happened earlier this month. The Democratic presidential candidate, whose own record on AIDS research and funding is better than any other candidate, mistakenly said that former US first lady Nancy Reagan was a key supporter of AIDS research. Reagan was, in reality, horrible…
MSNBC has canceled its weekend morning editorial program Melissa Harris-Perry. The cancellation deals a significant blow to diversity on cable news, as Harris-Perry consistently hosted the most diverse guests of any of the Sunday morning news shows. But the lack of diversity on Sunday morning shows is just part of a much broader media diversity problem. People of color are…
Not Your Korean Sidekick: The Frustrating Career of John Cho By Joe Starr | Think Pieces | March 9, 2016 | Comments (View) Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools In 2004, John Cho broke a glass ceiling with Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. He and Kal Penn wanted to make a…
Donald Trump talking about the (alleged) size of his dick was only the moment of reckoning. The trend had been building throughout the primaries. Before Trump talked about the size of his dick, Trump called Ted Cruz a pussy, he attacked Megyn Kelly for having the audacity to menstruate, and he claimed that Carly Fiorina was too…