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FILTER RESULTS ►Open thread for night owls: Amy Goodman—Another Memorial Day in this endless war
Independent investigative journalist Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now" and author of The Silenced Majority, a magnificent look at diverse groups of Americans engaged in resistance to plutocrats and jingoists. She wrote this column before President Obama gave his global war on terrorism speech Thursday; so she does not mention it. Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Wheeler—Closing Gitmo is not enough
?Marcy Wheeler is the author of Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy. At Salon, she writes Obama admits "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare”—but...Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Summoning the godfather of investibators
This actually appeared as an op-ed for the New York Times. From previous Times editor Bill Keller, no less. Republicans are howling for President Obama to name a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party groups. Show More Summary
Web Want: The perfect hangover cure
Confession: I got a wee bit drunk on the weekend... and had to wake up at the crack of dawn (still tipsy). The result? Absolute brain malfunction. The cure? Faust's Potions Hangover Cure for Discerning Night Owls... aka ME! This 24 hour restorative natural formula really does take the sting out of a hangover and all for [...]Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Phone records seizure might spark something better than a shield law
At The Nation, John Nichols writes 'Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press': A genuine left-right coalition has developed over the past several days in response to the revelation that the Department of Justice seized Associated Press telephone records in its recent investigation of a CIA leak. Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: OFA gets some pushback over Keystone XL
Jon Queally reports Organizing For Action, say critics, cannot address climate change and remain silent on tar sands pipeline: Organizing for Action, the so-called "grassroots arm" of the Obama administration, was designed to harness...Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Austerity and debt wreck lives of working American families
The following excerpt, via, Alternet, comes from Robert Kuttner's new book, Debtors' Prison, titled Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families: “Living within one’s means” is an appealing but oversimplified metaphor. Show More Summary
The Late Night, Free Cultural Event Extravaganza: European Night Of Museums 2013
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Budget traveling night owl alert: if you're in Europe right now you don't want to miss out on the ninth annual European Night of Museums this Saturday, May 18.
The idea is simple: open up museums way past their...Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Stephen Lerner on breaking Wall Street's grip
Greg Kauffman has, for a long time, been focused on poverty issues, a subject that rarely arouses much concern in the stenographic media but matters a great deal to tens of millions of Americans directly affected by it. What followsShow More Summary
AICN COMICS PREVIEW: Check out these preview pages of DC Comics’ TALON #8!
Ambush Bug here. DC Comics was nice enough to send over some preview pages to TALON #8 written by Jamies Tynion IV with art by Miguel Sepulveda. An offshoot of last year’s BATMAN crossover “Night of Owls” this series follows one of the sole Owls with a conscience. Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Excerpts from the Harper's Index
Excerpts from the Harper's Index for June:
• Percentage of U.S. college graduates who are women: 51.1
• Of Fortune 500 CEOs who are: 4.2
• Amount North Dakota’s attorney general requested the state to budget for legal challenges to its...Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Was the global oil market rigged?
Yet another major market scandal may be in the works: The London offices of BP and Shell have been raided by European regulators investigating allegations they have "colluded" to rig oil prices for more than a decade. [...] Lord Oakeshott,...Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Frances Moore Lappé on generating political energy with 'good news'
The author and activist made famous in 1971 with her ground-breaking Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappé, "Frankie" to her friends, wrote another book in 2011, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want....Show More Summary
Picture Show: Toubab Krewe & Ghost Owl @ BK Bowl
Toubab Krewe & Ghost Owl @ Brooklyn Bowl – May 10
Photos: Andrew Blackstein
HT faves Toubab Krewe completed a two-night stand at Brooklyn Bowl in NYC on Friday night. The Asheville-based band brought along Ghost Owl as support. Friday...Show More Summary
Clowns, Cats, and Grandma: The Five Scariest Adult Swim Bumpers
As you may have figured out by now, I am obsessed with television. I am also a night owl (“Sleep is for pussies”), so I tend to watch a lot of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. For those who go to bed at a sensible hour, Adult Swim is the block of animation (generally running from 10pm to 5am) that is decidedly not for children. Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Climate change will displace hundreds of millions—soon
Six and a half years ago, Nicholas Stern, chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, released the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, 700 stunning pages. Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Benghazi obsession might get legs over nitpicking
At Mother Jones, Kevin Drum writes Here's Why Benghazi May Finally Have Legs:
If Benghazi continues to have legs, it won't be because Fox is hyping it. They've been hyping it for eight months now. It won't be because the initial talking points were wrong. Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: 400 ppm milestone is moment of symbolic significance on road of idiocy
Presumably you've heard the news today that our atmosphere, that narrow band of chemicals enveloping the only planet we know that harbors sporadically intelligent life is now filled with 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide and rising.
Perhaps...Show More Summary
WATCH: How Would John Stewart And David Sedaris Eat Cake Off Of Another Man?
Hilarious best-selling author David Sedaris stopped by The Daily Show last night to promote his newest book, Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, by discussing the dessert-eating habits of straight men and the fashion sense of Montanans. We’re still not quite sure what the book is about, but if it’s half as hilarious as this rant [...]
David Sedaris Tells Hilarious Tales of His Book Tour to Jon Stewart: VIDEO
Author David Sedaris joined Jon Stewart last night to talk about his new book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, and his book tour, the people he meets on it, and the polls he takes at them. Sedaris has discovered that...
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