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• Open Thread for Night Owls

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:52 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls, Darfur

  All you folks already in Chicago better be sleeping. You have a big day ahead of you and three nights of partying. Here's some news from Darfur you may have missed: From the Guardian: Khartoum is no friend of this fresh resolve on Darfur David Clark Anyone assuming that this latest resolution [Resolution 1769] has somehow fixed the problem

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• Open Thread for Night Owls (The Right Makes Its Case)

  Published: September 11, 2007, 3:23 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls, George Will, Donald Kagan, Norman Podhoretz

  I almost always avoid linking to rightwingers, but I’m making an exception so tonight you can chew on the views of two NeoCons and an aristocrat talking about what’s next in Iraq. First, from the Houston Chronicle, the ethically challenged pinstriper who’s been nibbling at Mister Bush’s heels for a couple of years: By

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• Open Thread for Night Owls (Fake Interviews Edition)

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:58 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls, Alex Debat, Rue 89, Laura Rozen, Stephen Biko, Howard Kurtz

  The summer issue of the French publication Politique Internationale included an interview with Senator Barack Obama. Except, as it turns out, Obama never gave such an interview to Alexis Debat, "a researcher and specialist in issues of intelligence and counter-terrorism." According to Pascal Riché of the Website Rue 89: Debat is a

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• Open Thread for Night Owls (Preconceptions on the Griddle)

  Published: September 28, 2007, 3:28 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls, Journalism, Usc Annenberg Institute For Justice Journalism, Sally Lehrman

  Sally Lehrman has written Can Unconscious Biases Affect Our News Coverage?, a piece that appears on the site of the University of Southern California's Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism. It's worth taking note of because, while it is meant as a nudge for professional journalists, it applies more broadly, bloggers included.   For

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• Open Thread for Night Owls

  Published: October 4, 2007, 4:40 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls, Mazn, Crooked Timber, Laura Rozen, George W Bush

  Laura Rozen, one of my favorite investigative journalists, has written another  chapterin the saga of Alexis Debat that’s worth your time. Here’s a whiff: Until he was exposed as having published fake interviews with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Alan Greenspan, Colin Powell and others that he had not in fact conducted; until

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• Open Thread for Night Owls

  Published: October 5, 2007, 3:44 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls, Paul Krugman

  Unless there is a remarkable intervention from somewhere, by the end of October, with two months yet to go till year's end, 2007 will become the worst year for U.S. troop fatalities in Iraq since the war and occupation began 55 months ago. Obviously, as has been the case since the beginning, Iraqis fare much worse, as noted in this excerpt from an

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• Open Thread for Night Owls (Blackwater Timeline)

  Published: October 10, 2007, 3:09 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls

  Bruce Falconer (hat tip to Laura Rozen at War and Piece) has a Blackwater timeline. Some excerpts: February 6, 2006 Pentagon releases its Quadrennial Defense Review, classifying private contractors as a part of the Defense Department's "Total Force." September 24, 2006 Blackwater convoy driving down the wrong side of the road ("counter

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• Just Desserts

  Published: October 14, 2007, 10:57 pm

  Tags: American Owls, Purple

  course and pudding. Their howls of protest are still deafening from 10 paces away in the kitchen. I can feel my shell like ears curl up into tight little rosebuds, soundproof ones. I crouch in front of the grill to watch the blackberry and apple crumble gently brown and bubble. I am at just the right height to look over and see the

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• Open Thread for Night Owls (And Now Some Captains Speak)

  Published: October 16, 2007, 4:03 am

  Tags: Iraq, 12 Captains, Open Thread For Night Owls

  Twelve captains speak out today from the Op-Ed pages of the Washington Post. The inability to govern is exacerbated at all levels by widespread corruption. Transparency International ranks Iraq as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. And, indeed, many of us witnessed the exploitation of U.S. tax dollars by Iraqi officials and military

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• Ecologists discover city is 'uber-forest' for big owls

  Published: October 18, 2007, 2:41 pm

  Tags: Science, Birds, Forests, Owls

  It may be news to its bankers, but Charlotte, the biggest city in North Carolina and a major center of the American financial industry, is actually an old growth forest. At least that's the way the barred owls see it. .

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• Open Thread for Friday Night Owls

  Published: October 27, 2007, 3:39 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls

  No screed tonight, just a link and an excerpt from Leonard Doyle's story in The Independent (with h/t to Magnifico at the Overnight News Digest): Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention An American military lawyer and veteran of dozens of secret Guantanamo tribunals has made a devastating attack on the

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• Open Thread for Night Owls and Early Risers

  Published: November 10, 2007, 4:36 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls

  Fred Thompson puts a toe on the third rail, according to Marc Santora at The New York Times: Fred D. Thompson, venturing into the treacherous political territory of changing Social Security, called yesterday for slowing the growth of benefits for future retirees by using a different yardstick on which to calculate the monthly payouts. Mr.

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• Open Thread for Night Owls and Early Birds

  Published: November 16, 2007, 3:49 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls And Early Bird

  Leslie Eaton at The New York Times is reporting Poor Are Lagging in Hurricane Aid From Mississippi: Like the other Gulf Coast states battered by Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi was required by Congress to spend half of its billions in federal grant money to help low-income citizens trying to recover from the storm. But so far, the state has

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• Filmmaker Mike Bruce

  Published: November 30, 2007, 5:32 pm

  Tags: Film, Film Filmmaker, Gods Gun, Lone, Low Flyign Owls, Mike Bruce, Reel, Bruce, Mike, Compatriot, Buddy, Talents, Drinking, Recently

  My old drinking buddy/former Low Flying Owls bassist/all around rad man band compatriot Mike Bruce recently sent out his film reel. Dude’s got some serious celluloid skills. Check it out, then myspace him and tell him he’s got the goods. Here’s his stuff:

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• Hey, guess which coach makes more money than ... [575,000 Dollars!?!]

  Published: December 2, 2007, 12:25 pm

  Tags: 575 000 Dollars, College Football, Joe Paterno, Temple Owls

  Hey, guess which coach makes more money than Joe Paterno. Well, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes ... okay, I'm thinking piss poor mid-major teams. You guessed it, Temple's Al Golden. [The 700...

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