Open thread for night owls: Why vote on Tuesday?
digby writes Why can't we do it on the week-end?:
France had 80% voter turnout today. 60% is considered a political earthquake here. And one of the reasons is this:
American voter participation is terrible, and has been for half a century. So why do w...
Open thread for night owls: A reduced labor force is a lousy way to cut the unemployment rate
Felix Salmon writes about today's mediocre jobs report:
[The chart below] is just petrifying. The participation rate started falling after the dot-com bust, leveled off during the credit boom (but never really rose much), and then fell off a cliff whe...
Open thread for night owls: Lower pay for new graduates follows them for life
The Wall Street Journal puts up a paywall for most articles, so unless you subscribe or engage the site with go-around software, you won't be able to read the whole piece I am going to excerpt below. And since I can't get permission for a longer excer...
Open thread for night owls: Delusional hatemonger Bryan Fischer, the media and discourse
(Right Wing Watch)
Remember Bryan Fischer, the frothingly homophobic (no, seriously, the guy dedicates his entire life to railing about the myriad dangers of having gay people around at all, not to mention the dangers of tolerating them and not maki...
Open thread for night owls: In climate and other stories, headlines matter
At Climate Progress, Joe Romm critiques a bad headline on a good story:
Headlines are important because research shows that most newspaper readers don’t get much beyond them. And NY Times headlines sweep across the internet through twitter, facebook...
Open thread for night owls: Occupy May Day
At The Nation, Peter Dreier gives us a history lesson about May Day and then writes:
The Occupy Wall Street movement’s success can be measured in part by how public opinion has changed about such issues as corporate profits, widening inequality and ...
Open thread for night owls: Why are the Europhobes silent when Mitt Romney promotes austerity?
At Salon, Andrew Leonard writes:
An odd thing happened during Mitt Romney’s victory-lap speech after Tuesday’s Republican primaries: He didn’t once mention the word “Europe.”
The absence was jarring, because Romney’s claim that President O...
Open thread for night owls: Fatcats and super PACs, the landscape for 2012
At Mother Jones, Andy Kroll writes:
State-registered super-PACs are getting into the game too. Some focus on just one or two races, others on numerous statewide races where a little money goes a long way. North Carolina's first super-PAC, the Raleigh-...
