Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On Sunday, one year to the day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, people from the community gathered to remember and reflect. At the same time, halfway across the country in Staten Island, New York, baseball fans were made a part of a “Blue Lives Matter” event…
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According to a concerning trend piece on the current ‘dating apocalypse’ of twentysomethings, hookup culture has hit a critical mass of excess and indulgence, and the kids are not alright—they are, in fact, all fucked out with nobody to love. RIP going steady. The piece comes courtesy of Vanity Fair via journo Nancy Jo Sales,…
La Vanguardia, August 4, 2015 Catalonia is set to go to the polls next month, as regional President Artur Mas called early elections for Sept. 27, intending to use the vote as a fresh bid for independence. He announced the election as “an exceptional measure,” says Tuesday’s front page of La Vanguardia. In a televised…
Cynthia Jordan, a vice-president at a stock transfer fund, said cab driver Baqir Raza refused to pick up her and her daughters, but let two white females get into his taxi. View Full Caption LinkedIn/Cynthia Jordan MIDTOWN — A yellow taxi driver must pay $25,000 in fines and compensation for discriminating against a…
paging_filter Could it be? An old-fashioned newspaper war, but one fought in the digital trenches? Neither venerable news institution wants to call it a head-to-head battle, but the numbers are beginning to tell us otherwise. Meanwhile, we can only begin to speculate about the business implications of the numbers we see. Just now, The New…
The first GOP presidential primary debate take place this Thursday in Cleveland, Ohio. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Dr. Ben Carson, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former CEO Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former New York Gov. George Pataki, former Texas Gov….
Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. So sorry about Cecil. Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe? Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by…
Credit: Jake Reeves/The Huffington Post FERGUSON, Mo. — Nearly a half-century ago, a University of Missouri law professor named T.E. Lauer issued a warning. Missouri’s network of municipal courts, he wrote, were “a modern anomaly” generally “overlooked or ignored as the misshapen stepchildren of our judicial system.” It was “disgraceful,” he argued, that poor people…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code Some interesting weather happened early this morning across parts of NYC and Long Island, and most of us slept right through it as if we’re gonna live forever and can afford to skip yet another spectacular manifestation of nature’s majestic glory. “What are those flashes of…