Hot off the Press: Election Day edition

The amount of secret and corporate money pouring in to support Benjamin Lange's efforts to unseat Bruce Braley in Iowa's 1st US Congressional District is so high the NYT wrote an editorial about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/opinion/27wed1.html?_r=1&hp.

Myspace (I always thought it was "MySpace") is trying to redesign and refocus itself on entertaining us Millennials: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/technology/27myspace.html?hp. One thing I did not know was that Myspace is "a unit Rupert of Murdoch's News Corporation," the same man and company behind Fox News. I stopped using Myspace a long time ago because it sucks. Despite the efforts, I doubt anything Myspace, or even Facebook, does could get me jacked about social networking again.

NYT op-ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman about politicians promoting bad ideas and the ignored and, seemingly, realistic national diagnosis in this year's election: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/opinion/27friedman.html?hp.

"Iowa City ponders 'sanctuary city' status": http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20101029/NEWS01/10290320/1079.

Chided two years ago, young voters feel abandoned this election: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/us/politics/01generationo.html?_r=1. Now that us Millennials know how worthless both major parties are, how about we do something about it!

After raising a "pay wall" in June, around 105,000 are now paying to view The Times and Sunday Times of London online, which News Corp. (the fair owners of Fox News and Myspace) seems content with: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/business/media/03newscorp.html?_r=1&hp. Sometime soon, though the article does not say, nytimes.com will become a pay-to-view site as well.

An in depth piece from Der Spiegel titled "Is the American Dream over?": http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,726447,00.html.