http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/12/more-obama-voters-sleeping-till-noon Comments On: More Obama Voters "Sleeping Till Noon" by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by DreamItReal]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:55:21 -0800 The Stranger
I have an awesome work from home job with flexible hours and global teams working in every time zone imaginable, so I have the ability to work later in the day when I'm at my most productive. This awesome flexible-hours job didn't just fall into my lap, either. I actually worked hard to find a job that fits my body's natural rhythms so that I can offer up 110% at work every day, which wouldn't be possible for me at 8 AM, that's for sure.

As someone who has never been a morning person, I must say that we do seem to have an odd cultural stigma about sleeping until noon, and it doesn't just come from the crazy right. What's up with that?
Posted by bre]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:36:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Andy Niable]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:00:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by PIRATE-ivy]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:47:52 -0800 The Stranger
How about getting the financial disclosure information of all the folks who contributed to each of the campaigns and break them out by industry?

If the GOP Meme machine is to be believed, the majority of those contributions would be coming from "Self-Employed Couch Potato." The reality will likely show something quite different.

If the whole country is too much, maybe just take the states that Obama won. Or, if that's too large a sample still, how about just those who contributed to the McKenna and Inslee campaigns here in WA?

Oh wait, I just did.

Of the top 5000 McKenna contributors who listed a profession, the top profession was RETIRED with 673 contributions. President/CEO/Owner types appear to be second in the 500-range, followed by HOMEMAKER in third with 225.

For Inslee the top three would appear to be RETIRED (834), Attorney (727), and then President/CEO/Owner in the 250s.

Retired folks not withstanding, I don't think attorneys and business owners are the types who sleep 'til noon.

I'm sure someone with more than 10 minutes to look at the filing data (here http://www.pdc.wa.gov/servlet/ContribSer…) and more experience with the data than doing a sort uniq could come up with a slightly more accurate and compelling investigation.

Maybe someone who works at a newspaper or something.

Posted by psbirch]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:56:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Subdued Excitement]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:54:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Westlake, son!]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:50:02 -0800 The Stranger
I just have to ask: What's the point of this exercise? The entire idea that Obama voters are lazy moochers is so preposterous, it has zero legs and no hope of becoming any sort of a meme. It's just right-wing lunacy once again, the same kind of lunacy the country just resoundingly and forcefully de-pantsed on election night.

So why make a big deal out of it? There is no need to disprove it, or even make fun of it. We don't need examples; we don't need a counter-argument. The emperor not only has no clothes, he isn't even royalty anymore. The emperor is now a peasant.

One could argue that by running this weird campaign to find examples, you actually give this transparently ridiculous idea a small modicum of power. Why bother? It's so dumb, it's beneath incredulity. It's just not worth your (or frankly, our) time.

We won. Time to start acting like it.
Posted by schmacky]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:50:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by very bad homo]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:12:14 -0800 The Stranger
I'm glad there are some people who don't get up until after the arbitrary hour of noon, because they can serve my dinner, drive my bus, sort my UPS packages, dispatch 911 calls, keep factories running overnight, layout the next morning's daily newspaper, create art, or whatever.
Posted by john t]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:00:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by auntie jim]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:00:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Chris in Vancouver WA]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:59:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pfffter]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:56:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pfffter]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:54:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MacCrocodile]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:52:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:45:24 -0800 The Stranger