Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Image via New Line Cinema. For decades, I have been saying that Austin Powers is one of the greatest films of all time. Now, as we approach its 20th anniversary, the world is finally beginning to agree. The first Austin Powers was released on May 2, 1997 (prepare for austinpowers.jezebel.com, baby, yeah) and, according to…
Donald Trump And The GOP As A Terrible ‘Dungeons And Dragons’ Team Is Hilariously Accurate Judging by their failed attempt to repeal Obamacare, and their two failed attempts at a travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries, it doesn’t look like President Trump and the GOP are going to be able to get many of their…
Honk the horn! Andrew Harnik / AP Share Pin Vroom vroom vroom! Source: Trump Got To Sit In A Big Boy Truck Because Today Was A Special Day!
Oakhurst Dairy trucks lining up in Portland, Me., in 2006. Credit Pat Wellenbach/Associated Press A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks. What ensued in…
Screen shot of the White House newsletter. Thanks, White House newsletter! There are two possible explanations for why the White House daily newsletter included my piece about the budget, a piece composed almost entirely of onomatopoeic noises (PEW PEW! GRRRRRRRR!) typed out in all caps. Either they read it and loved it, especially the part where I…
Photo: Instagram/Donald Trump Ronald McDonald has had enough of Donald Trump’s bullshit, and he’s taken to McDonald’s official corporate Twitter account to let him hear it. What finally tipped Ron over the edge? Was it Trump’s second failed attempt at a Muslim ban, his proposed 31 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency, or maybe…
The Washington Post published an intricate investigation into White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s shady residential history on Saturday, from which one extremely bleak detail stands out in particular, an email sent to Bannon in February 2015 by one of his former Florida landlords that reads, in part, “[E]ntire Jacuzzi bathtub seems to have been…
Ryan Reynolds + Flamethrower = Life. All Images: Sony For superhero film fans, few titles are more shudder-inducing than Spider-Man 3. Which is probably not the thing the marketing team at Sony was going for when creating a new trailer for killer alien film Life, but it oddly works. Let us explain. So today a…
CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY SPENCER PLATT / GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ Great. Just great. Nine years. That’s how long I’ve spent meticulously crafting an online persona that’s funny, trendy, tech-savvy, slightly self-deprecating, and nerdy in a conventionally acceptable way. Now it’s all falling apart. Trump hasn’t even been President for two months, and look at what’s happened….
When you look up “compassion” in the dictionary.Image: nikolsky SPUTNIK/KREM/REX/Shutterstock By Colin Daileda2017-03-08 15:33:24 UTC Sometimes people say words with their mouths but their faces tell you they don’t give one tiny shit about what they’re saying. This is not Vladimir Putin! The Russian president is a man of sincerity. Look at this tweet in…