Open thread for night owls: Bill would force website owners to remove anonymous comments
At Threat Level, David Kravets reports:
Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and “baseless political attacks”?
Proposed legislation in both chambers wou...
Open thread for night owls: Make banks small enough to fail
At the Campaign for America's Future, Richard (RJ) Eskow has posted a good piece—Break Up The Big Banks Now. Here's How:
JPMorgan Chase is either our largest or second-largest bank, depending on when and how you ask the question. News stories often ...
Open thread for night owls: For the long-term jobless, things get worse
At The Nation, Greg Kaufman writes:
There are 12.5 million unemployed people still seeking work in the United States, and over 5 million of them have been looking for work for twenty-seven weeks or longer.
These are “the long-term unemployed,” and...
Open thread for night owls: Tough times for the class of 2012
Robert Reich gives you a peek at the commencement address that nobody will ever give:
Members of the Class of 2012,
As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you're...
Open thread for night owls: The newest birther conspiracy
Talking Points Memo:
“Dreams From My Real Father,” a 97-minute film narrated by an Obama impersonator, weaves the narrative that Obama’s grandfather wasn’t a furniture salesman but an undercover CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marr...
Open thread for night owls: Frackin’ up the atmosphere
At Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, Jim Naureckas writes:
You have to wonder: Do journalists covering energy issues imagine they and their loved ones are going to be living on another planet in the not-too-distant future?
That seems like the only...
Open thread for night owls: Circus without bread, the deficit clowns confabulate Tuesday in DC
Billionaire Pete Peterson is holding a by-invitation-only "Fiscal Summit" Tuesday. This gathering to discuss how to gut entitlement programs and otherwise keep denizens of the top tier from slipping out of the one percentile category is becoming an an...
Open thread for night owls: Introducing the Toolitzers
All hail the arrival of the Toolitzer.
Over at Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell has announced a new writing award for book authors like Jonah Goldberg (who was just nailed for claiming he once part of that small, elite group of people who have bee...
Open thread for night owls: Disconnected in a globalized world
emptywheel writes:
About a month ago, I bought a pineapple from Costa Rica at Meijers. It was over 5 pounds and cost something like $1.50.
The fruit was lovely. But the price got me thinking about how pineapple has become one of those things in global...
Open thread for night owls: Keystone propagandists hamstring reporters
At the National Resource Defense Council, Danielle Droitsch writes:
An Alberta government sponsored report criticizing the European Union’s own independent analysis of climate emissions from tar sands has created a political debate but misses the sc...
Open thread for night owls: Same nation, different worlds
This Slate piece published just before Sen. Dick Lugar lost his primary bid to the more froth-friendly Richard Mourdock is notable primarily for the number of looney statements freely proffered by the participants:
Taking out the Republicans who compr...
