A Note to Our Readers

Hey --
Sunday. We've got a new edition.

First, thank you to Dallas for always hunting down links, being a sound board and more. C.I. pointed out that we forgot to thank Dallas last week. Apologies to Dallas for that.

Highlights:

Humor Spotlight: Wally on Pete Coors' arrest (he was arrested)
Blog Spotlight: Mike noting the start of the weekend and more
NYT criticque via The Common Ills
Humor Spotlight: Betty on Thomas Friedman's War Paint Council
Cooking Spotlight: Deviled Eggs in the Kitchen
Cooking Spotlight: Rosemary Roasted Potatoes in the Kitchen
Blog Spotlight: Cedric on war breeding war
Blog Spotlight: Elaine on summer and summer reading
Blog Spotlight: Kat pointing out something many missed


We thank everyone for their permission to repost. Those working on new content this edition:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and me, Jim;
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:

Redistricting right up to the election? -- our election focus.

It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Boring) -- and boring he is.

The rush to grab that linked article! -- a reader, Tamara, e-mailed already this morning asking if we could add a link to that feature, Phyllis Bennis' "The Gaza/Lebanon Crises: Escalating Occupation & Danger of New Border Fighting." Worth reading.

All He Is Saying Is Act Like M15 Doesn't Exist -- how does it end up that non-British people know more about M15 spying on John Lennon than a writer in England? Or does he just not think it was worth noting?

William Lash III -- is dead.

Tour de Drip -- Lovely Lance. Friend of Bully Boy.

The long and winding edition -- the thing that delayed this entry like crazy. Four hours debating on how to touch on this topic. C.I. did not want to in any form. We finally decided to just make it a summary and to only include the six of us (Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.). Where there are disagreements, they are noted.

Editorial: House of Cards Collapses -- Bully Boy's left standing with his pants around his ankles. (Cover your eyes! For God's sake, cover your eyes!)

TV: 4 Days in 7th Hell -- Ty says one e-mail already came in asking when the episode would air? Never. This is Ava and C.I.'s TV commentary, by the way. Written solely by them. In the spirit of facing your fears, they ignored their repulsion, suppressed their urge to vomit and watched episodes of 7th Heaven. At the start of the edition, they told us they had no review for this edition. "It's just too boring," they told us. Then, we missed Laura Flanders (we did have her on in the background but the arguments re: "The long and . . ." were so intense that no one was following the program) and that was two holes in our edition. (And we're fully aware that for the majority of our readers we can do anything provided we have a TV commentary.) We didn't put pressure on them to rethink that decision. What happened was Ava said, "I can't take another minute of this discussion." She and C.I. broke off from the group and attempted to figure out which was worse, rejoining the discussion or writing a commentary? They decided to get creative with the commentary (we all love it) and spent longer on it than they usually do. (We're sure they were avoiding the rest of us and hoping the matter would be over before they rejoined.)

So that's what we're offering this week. Hopefully, there's something that gets you excited and gets you active.


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