A Note to Our Readers

Hey --
Quickly. (Technical problems swamped us in the last two hours when all we had to write was this note and post the already written stuff. Everyone's tired.)

No note, last week. All the usual suspects contributed. (C.I. and Ava wrote the TV commentary.) Due to the personal bad news, no one wanted to do a note last week. We had planned to do it Monday but C.I. was flying to Rebecca's at the last minute and, again, no one wanted to regroup for it.

Highlights? We have the following (and thank you to everyone for their permission to reprint):

Blog Spotlight: Elaine weighs in on Hillary, Bully Boy & LGBT Pride Day
NYT Critique: C.I. on Kate Zernike's drive-by taxi hit on John Kerry
Blog Spotlight: Rebecca, always a fighter
Blog Spotlight: Cedric noting Law and Disorder's coverage of Mumia Abu-Jamal and David Gilbert
Blog Spotlight: Mike summarizing part-two of Law and Disorders look at tasers
Irak declara estado de emergencia; mueren mas de dos docenas de personas
Absurdist Spotlight: Bully Boy Press & Cedric's Big Mix team up to take on the news
Humor Spotlight: Betinna explains that her husband "Thomas Friedman Wants It Hot"
Humor Spotlight: Wally on the Psychic General
Blog Spotlight: Rebecca's mid-party post
Cooking Spotlight: Burritos in the Kitchen
Blog Spotlight: Kat covers Sander Hicks appearnace on KPFA's Guns and Butter

Thank you to Dallas, for links.

Along with Dallas, the following worked on this edition:

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.

New content? The following:

Left Eye for the Moderate Guy what to do when an aging rocker in decline realizes his audience is dwindling?

New Millenium Songbook for War Hawks and Other Vile Creatures -- a humorous feature we had a great deal of fun with. There are three online. The print version contains nine. Again, we had a lot of fun with our rewrites of popular songs to make them appealing to War Hawks and Other Vile Creatures.

Hope was the theme for RadioNation with Laura Flanders Saturday -- This was the post we were working on when the trouble started it. It was longer. "Recover post" allowed us to grab a third of it. That's what we've published (in print and online).

Where he leads, she will follow, any place that he tells her to -- short item.

Radio highlights for Sunday -- things you can listen to today.


TV review: The Simpsons -- Ava and C.I.'s latest. Different in the print version by many paragraphs (the viewpoint remains the same). The original is there in saved form, it just won't pull up. They attempted to type it up from the print edition but both say they're eyes were too tired to follow it. The biggest difference is where Bill Clinton enters into the commentary. Also, the print version includes three times as many quotes from the show. We think the online version actually reads snappier.

Editorial: Ehren Watada standing up, are you? -- this wasn't our planned editorial. When tech problems began, we made it the editorial because it was already completed. We think it works as such. (The editorial that isn't? It was on Guantamo. Stand up for Watada this week.)

Truest statement of last week -- we actually debated several. We ended up going with this one because who knows if or when the paper of no record will even be in the running. (That's not to downgrade the statement. It's worthy of noting. )


That's it for this week.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.