"What a drag, he is getting old" -- Betty's latest chapter finds Betinna donning male drag and going in search of Thomas Friedman.
"Mandarin Oranges & Wild Rice in the Kitchen" -- Trina wrote late/early (late Friday, early Saturday morning) and that's due to the fact that her son and daughter-in-law moved in on Saturday. One reader (Sammy) e-mailed this site that they enjoyed it but Trina seemed a little reserved. A little reserved?
"Friday" -- what she could have done was link to Mike's post but his kid sister would have thrown a fit. (She's already pissed at Mike for writing about it.) For what's what in the McKinnon house, read this.
"And the war drags on . . ." -- Ty says very popular in the e-mails and very popular with us. C.I.'s addressing the media silences on Iraq at The Nation. To repeat, check out any community site on July 4th and Labor Day. You won't want to miss those days. (Or those joint-posts.)
"Ford and CIA discuss Jane Fonda, Kissinger tries to cover his own War Criminal ass" -- Kat addresses what the CIA has finally released so far. Gerry Ford and the CIA discuss Jane Fonda and Henry Kissinger worried about prison.
"THIS JUST IN! JONESTOWN II ENDS IN BOREDOM!" & "They drank the kool-aid" -- Wally and Cedric's joint-post that prompted a coffee fetcher to respond. We weren't aware of that. Cedric never checks for comments (but notes community members responded to one post and he intends to grab that and make it its own post at some point). Betty was struggling with her chapter and needed some "laugh inspiration." She checked to see if their latest post was up yet (it wasn't -- they were holding so they could link to Betty) and saw that a coffee fetcher was displeased. You'll want to read Betty's strong rebuttal. (Yes, she commented.)
"Lakshimi shows up late and lost (Ava and C.I.)" -- One of the things that sometimes gets tossed around is all of us doing one site. Rebecca's even said, before, that she'd curb the language if we wanted to do that. How that would work would be we still post as we normally do but all at one site. That would be interesting. Hasn't happened yet. But one thing that has happened is a true joint-entry by Ava and C.I. Those are rare but we always love them (and so do you, Ty told us this was the most mentioned thing from another site in the e-mails to Third this week). The way this worked was members were complaining in e-mails about Lakshimi. (Imagine that.) C.I. and Ava had addressed her here (unnamed) many times and C.I. felt if it was going to be addressed, Ava needed to be brought in. C.I. then called Jim and checked to make sure the fiction edition was still on for this one. It was. C.I. explained what Ava was about to be asked to co-tackle and checked to make sure Jim wasn't going to feel it should have gone up here? Jim agreed it needed to be addressed quickly and said they should tackle it today. Then Ava and C.I. discussed what they were going to write. Then, between speaking, they scribbled down one liners. They dictated it to a friend over the phone, writing around the one liners. Jim reads it and his reaction (according to Ty) is, "Damn. I should have said, 'Write it, but we want it for this site."
"Law and Disorder" -- ever say something that's correct and have someone blow you off like you don't know what you're talking about? That was done to Dalia Hashad. Mike explains it here.
"John Halle, Norman Finkelstein, Ruth Conniff, etc...." -- Elaine addressing a topic that everyone involved in this takes very personal. At one point or another everyone (except Elaine but including the Third gang) has had someone go running to C.I. about some 'mean' old thing that was said. We firmly believe that if you have a problem with something someone wrote, you take it up with them, you don't try to go over their heads.
"Two snorts over the line" & "THIS JUST IN! RUDY'S HOUSE PARTIES TAKE A HIT!" -- that Rudy, he was running quite the campaign.
"grab mag," "thomas ravenel was the state treasurer," "mixed bag," "robert parry, jonathan weisman" and "our law breaking attorney general" -- Rebecca continues to explore the Alberto Gonzales cesspool.