Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
An Evans, Ga., mom faces charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after she told her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor that she threw a drunken, naked Twister party for her teen daughter and her friends. The sponsor responded to the randy mom’s plea for help by narcing her out to the sheriff’s department. Rachel…
Photo As airlines pack planes tighter and charge more for certain rows, requests — or demands — to swap seats have taken on a new tenor. Credit Edgar Su/Reuters J.L. Pomeroy has flown long enough to know that there are limits to how obliging she will be to her fellow passengers, especially those who want…
It stands to reason that as revenge porn is cracked down upon, certain men will have to find other ingenious avenues for non-consensually sexualizing women. Well, meet DoppelBangHer, one of the most creative approaches I can possibly imagine. It’s a Reddit community where dudes go to crowdsource a very important question: How do I find…
SALT LAKE CITY — Efforts by a former member of Warren Jeffs’ sect to retrieve her four children from a polygamous community led to a lengthy standoff after dozens of followers surrounded the woman’s van and some allegedly threw chickens at it. Deputies were in Colorado City, Arizona, for seven hours Friday until they received…
Entry Text What doctors at Washington, D.C. hospitals discovered inside a 62-year-old patient looks like a giant egg, and parts of it had a “firm and rubbery” texture similar to a hard-boiled egg. But this was no egg.It’s called a peritoneal loose body, and according to one of the doctors that had it surgically removed,…
A man following his vehicle’s GPS navigation drove the couple’s car off a partially demolished bridge. (Ken Davidson/Northwest Indiana Gazette) A Chicago woman was killed after her husband followed their car’s GPS navigation off a partially demolished bridge that has been closed since 2009, according to reports. Zohra Hussain, 51, died after their Nissan Sentra…
Employees of Amtrak, the publically-funded railroad service, earned themselves a round of bonuses because their agency only lost $214 million last year. A second set of bonuses was scrapped after Amtrak fell far short of its customer satisfaction goals, according to the agency’s inspector general. RELATED: Why we’re not going to get Northeast Corridor high-speed…
A complaint over a malfunctioning photo booth at an Ohio Chuck E. Cheese’s escalated into a terrifying attack involving a dozen birthday party-goers on Sunday — an incident that left two employees seriously injured, according to police. Police say a female patron complained to Chuck E. Cheese’s employees in Parma, Ohio, about the photo booth not…
You can take our poll here. So far, about three-quarters of respondents see white and gold. But why are people seeing such wildly different colors? First off, it’s not monitor settings. (My husband and I looked at the same monitor and saw different colors.) It’s probably not about the cells in your eyes. Our retinas…
By now, you would have had at least 146 people on your Facebook or Twitter shove this photo into your feed, asking you what colour this dress is. The photo came from a Tumblr post: ‘guys please help me – is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can’t agree…