This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man, 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 and all highlights selected by us unless otherwise noted.
"Kat's Korner: Judy Collins makes like Eydie Gorme" -- Kat laying it out there, laying it on the line, telling the truths some may want to avoid. It just went up and, except for Kat, we took a break to read it. It's amazing.
"Searching for Nicky K, Encountering a Sea Witch" -- Betinna continues her search for Nicholas Kristof, hoping he will provide the answers to her past. She visits a clinic this chapter and also encounters a dead ringer for Ursula from The Little Mermaid.
"Barbeque Sauce in the Kitchen" -- Trina's offering a recipe and commentary on the socialization of gender.
"The Nation ignores war resisters even as it publishes the child of one," "the nation magazine ignores war resisters while publishing the child of one," "The Nation refuses to cover war resisters while publishing the child of one," "The Nation ignores war resisters even while publishing the child of one," "The Nation ignores war resisters while publishing the child of one,"
"The Nation refuses to cover war resisters while publishing the child of one," "The Nation refuses to cover war resisters while publishing the child of one," "The Nation ignores war resisters while publishing the child of one," and "The Nation ignores war resisters even while publishing the child of one" -- the Labor Day feature that went up at all sites, worked on by all of us (including Ruth and Trina). Ty said there were four e-mails asking about the order this was billed in at other sites. It's the same order we're using now. Wally and Cedric noted all the posts in a joint-entry. Everyone copied and pasted it from them. What was the order? Those with back up sites and The Third Estate Sunday Review went first. Why? They were easy to copy and paste. With Rebecca, C.I. and Cedric's backup site, they all provide a link to the original post in the title of the repost so all you have to do is use the mouse to copy and paste one time only for each site. With The Third Estate Sunday Review (resulting from their template switch), you can copy the title of any article in one copy and paste at the top of the article (and the link's included). With the other sites? Kat and Betty's sites don't provide post titles (with links) on the side the way the rest of our sites do. However, this was a long title, so from Wally, Mike, Elaine, Trina (or Rebecca or Cedric's original sites), you get "Blah blah blah ...." with the last half of the title being reduced to "...". To get the links for those, Wally and Cedric had to first copy and paste the title and then get the links and insert them. So the order was the easiest to copy and paste went first.
"Ruth's Report" -- Ruth was planning to write something on the Pacifica Radio Archives but ended up focusing on another topic instead. (We've got a feature covering it that will go up shortly.) She thought what she ended up covering for the entire report would be an aside, three paragraphs at most, instead it ended up being the entire report. We'll say, "Well said, Ruth."
"oink, oink go the pigs" -- Trina requested that we highlight this post by Rebecca. As Rebecca notes, one topic of her post is addressed in a feature this week.
"THIS JUST IN! LAURA SAYS BULLY BOY IS NUTS!" & "Bully Boy is nuts!" -- every time Laura Bush invents a story to 'humanize' her husband, she ends up making him look demeted. Wally and Cedric catch the latest.
"2 years-plus of Isaiah, Jeff Cohen" -- Isaiah passed the two-year mark of providing comics for The Common Ills last May. Elaine realized that this week and alerted the rest of us to it. We congratulate Isaiah and we, as community members, congratulate ourselves because we consider ourselves very lucky to be able to have witnessed his body of work.
"Iraq snapshot," "Barbie's Dream House trumps the deaths of US Soldiers on NBC's Today," and "Real news vs. NBC's Today's fluff" -- Rebecca warned us she had a ton of C.I.'s entries she wanted to highlight this weekend. These were three of them which were also requested by readers of this site (Ty says we have to especially note that Louise requested all three because she's not sure she's ever gotten a shout out here).
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Runaway Bully" -- Isaiah's comic portrays Bully Boy making a mad dash (in his wedding dress) as he attempts to escape the realities of the losing illegal war.
"Marjorie Cohn on Iran, Third" -- Jim asked that we note this post by Mike. He means to note it in "A Note to Our Readers" but he planned to do that last week as well and time ran out. Mike's highlighting Marjorie Cohn and providing the behind the scenes rundown of last week's edition of The Third Estate Sunday Review.
"So that's what 'bi-partisan' really means" & "THIS JUST IN! WHEN THE PEOPLE GET SCREWED IT'S 'BI-PARTISAN'" -- Cedric and Wally take a look at what happens when conservative Democrats and conservative Republicans work together (and against the people): the press calls it "bi-partisan."
"While others specialize in 1 day coverage, check out Democracy Now!" -- Kat's post that notes the strong coverage Democracy Now! provided on the after-math (continued) of Hurricane Katrina. She also gives you a little background on how Ava and C.I. decided what to write about this week (they're writing that as we write this).
"elizabeth holtzman, elizabeth de la vega, etc." -- Rebecca offers up some realities that need to be noted.
"Cindy Sheehan (and the braying Katha)" -- Kat breaks some realities about the eighth Congressional district in California for the ass Katha Pollitt. ("Ass and racist," add Betty seconded by Cedric.)
"Dems get ready to cave again" & "Those Amazing Caving Dems in Congress" -- Blog twins (and a couple, of course) Elaine and Mike share their thoughts on the disgusting Democratic 'leadership' in Congress.