Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take. Below all the legal jargon is the signature of the man who had composed “This Land Is Your Land,” the most resounding appeal to an…
Photo Sarah Palin put her political backing behind Donald J. Trump in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times Sarah Palin’s meandering, fiery, sarcastic, patriotic and blustery speech endorsing Donald J. Trump for president on Tuesday in Ames, Iowa, does not easily submit to categorization. It has been described as…
Sam Shadwell and Chris Brown are junior computer science majors at Rice University. Last weekend, they participated in HackRice, a hackathon. Sam and Chris, together with Dan Korn and Cannon Lewis, spent the first day brainstorming, their first evening drunk-brainstorming, and then coded for a total of 20 hours. The end result? TrumpScript, a version…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s latest idea for how to make America great again? Force Apple to build its products in the US. Trump, in a Monday speech at Liberty University in Virginia, said he’d “get” Apple to build its “damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries.” Now, Trump didn’t…
The US lost Apple’s manufacturing jobs years ago, and probably for good. Steve Jobs is rumored to have said as much at a high-power Silicon Valley dinner in 2011, when he told President Barack Obama “those jobs aren’t coming back.” But billionaire kleptomaniac Donald Trump thinks he’ll be the one to get them back. Speaking at Liberty…
With tonight’s GOP debate looming, it is time to think about who you would have on your side in a REAL fight. 14. Ted Cruz Let’s be clear here: Ted Cruz is not just the worst presidential candidate to have on your side in a bar fight. He is the worst possible human being to…
Confederate-flag sympathizers rallying at Stone Mountain Park, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, in August, 2015. Credit Photograph by John Amis / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the winter of 1999, the Kansas City Star asked several local dignitaries and writers to herald the upcoming century by writing predictions, replicating an exercise that the…
If Donald Trump wins the presidency, he will have a job for four years. If not, he may not have a job ever again. According to a survey conducted by the brand consultant agency BAV Consulting, since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Trump brand of hotels, housing developments and golf courses has…
Officials in Virginia’s largest jurisdiction want to close public schools during the Super Tuesday presidential primaries, saying they fear that supporters of Republican front-runner Donald Trump could cause mayhem at the polls. The concerns stem mainly from a state Republican Party decision — which Trump opposes — to require voters to affirm that they are…
Is it even news anymore that the supporters of a self-professed anti-Muslim candidate are also anti-Muslim themselves? A Muslim woman who was kicked out for standing up in silent protest at a Donald Trump rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on Friday night says that she was berated by the crowd as she left the…