A Note to Our Readers

Hey --
Sunday, and because C.I.'s put off entries at The Common Ills (and because everyone pitched in), we're through way before usual (thought not as quickly as we'd like to be).

Highlights? We've got some and thank you everyone for allowing us to repost.


Blog Spotlight: Rebecca plays Judy Blume
Blog Spotlight: Mike on the mainstream's distortions of the immigration bill
Blog Spotlight: Bully Boy Press and Cedric's Big Mix team up for a joint entry on the Bully Boy
Music Spotlight: Kat reviews the Dixie Chicks' Taking The Long Way
Humor Spotlight: "Betinna" (Betty) on guess who -- "His Head Is Fat"
C.I. on The New York Times
Ruth's Public Radio Report
Blog Spotlight: Rebecca on watching Elijah and listening to Flashpoints
Humor Spotlight: Wally on why Bully Boy doesn't want to talk to Iran
Blog Spotlight: Mike on music
Blog Spotlight: Cedric on race
Blog Spotlight: Kat grabbing odds and ends
Blog Spotlight: Elaine weaves a tapestry

As the top highlight, when C.I. notes Maria's entry (probably tonight), we'll repost it here. In addition, there will be another post of new content later. (When? Shh, it's a secret.)

New content? Lolly-lolly-lolly, get your adverbs here!


"Editorial: The Reailities of Occupation" we like this editorial. We did it quickly and we did it at the end. Participating were the core six of us and Kat. (Kat stayed with us throughout, thank you, Kat, we know it was a long night and long morning.)

"TV commentary: About the women" Dona read this and said, "Not to be Michelle Phillips, but what are you really going to say?" Dona was referring to when Michelle heard the "Nobody's getting fat except Mama Cass" line of "Creeque Alley." That is what they're saying. Dona said, "Go for it, it blows me away." At which point, everyone still working, including Kat, demanded that Dona read it aloud -- damn the editorial and the hour, we had to hear it. We heard it. We love it. This is Ava and C.I.'s feature, they wrote it (they lived it) and we're proud to offer it here.

"Quick one: Why is Kagan not i.d.ed by the Washington Post" Please note, C.I. did not work on this feature, C.I. has not read this feature. C.I. does not intend to read this feature. If you are offended by it and wish to discuss it, you should avoid discussing it with C.I. Unlike a previous, similar article, it is clearly noted what C.I.'s involvement on this was (no involvement at all). Many who complained before ended up calling me, Jim. Feel free to call again. But C.I. had nothing to do with the writing, discussing or anything else. When Jess noted it was a critical article and what it was focused on, C.I. said, "I'm taking a break."

"Crapapedia: Kids don't use it to research papers!" Did we all eat our Wheaties? Apparently so. We spent hours and hours on this entry. (Ava and C.I. worked the phones along with all of us doing research through the public record.) Crapapedia is crap. We hate to agree with The New York Times but if those are the editorial standards, if that is what passes for fact checking, then Crapapedia needs to shut down because there are too many errors. And we only focused on music. (And only included about a third of what we could have cited.)

"Carly Simon's Christmas albums" That's the visual this week. It also goes with the above story, but we all love the music of Carly Simon.

"April Oliver got a fiancial settlement, whether Wikiepedia tells you it happened or not, It Happened" There was a tiny, organized e-mail campaign from the right. They don't know what happened. We tried to clue them (and our readers) in on what did happen. All the right-wing e-mails mentioned Wikiepedia and that's how we ended up focusing on the site for the other entry.

"Laura Flanders and Anthony Arnove discussed realities about Iraq Saturday on RadioNation with Laura Flanders" Did you listen Saturday? You should have.

"Radio highlights for Sunday (and one for Tuesday)" covers Flanders today, as well as some other programs you won't want to miss.

Except where otherwise noted, all entries were worked on by the following:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and Jim;
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude;
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man;
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review;
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills);
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix;
Mike of Mikey Likes It!;
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz;
and Wally of The Daily Jot.

We thank everyone and we thank for Dallas for his help with links and and with research.

We'll see you next week.

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.