This piece is written by Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.
"The Sonny to his Cher" -- Betina and Cathy Pollitt go in search of Katrina vanden Heuvel and Thomas Friedman. This is hilarious (even if Betty's disagrees). She also notes that the phrase is "How are you?" in Japanese and that C.I. gave it to her. "It wasn't included in the original drafts," she explains, "C.I. spelled it out and told me to try it after the sentence about a foreign language. I did and it worked perfectly. That may be the only thing I'm pleased with."
"Kat's Korner: Smashing Pumpkins, tilted windmills" -- Kat wanted to be pleased with Smashing Pumpkins' CD that came out this year . . . but wasn't. Read the review and discovered how the group -- despite a splashy press 'comeback' -- ended up with a poor selling CD.
"Glazed Onions in the Kitchen" -- Trina explains a recipe, quotes a song and provides you the latest on presidential contender Dennis Kucinich.
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "A Bully Boy and Pelosi Christmas" -- This is what bipartisan truly looks like!
"Tina Turner, Poland, Glen Ford" -- While suspect males took to their outlets to defend the torturer Ike Turner, if you searched, you could find some reality.
"Cindy Sheehan" -- Kat explains why she's voting for Cindy Sheehan and, if you live in the eighth district in California, you should vote for Cindy too.
"GOP pile-up!" & "THIS JUST IN! TOUGH TIMES FOR REPUBLICANS!" -- Cedric and Wally break down the bad news for the GOP. This site received an e-mail stating, "You forgot Ron Paul!" As previously noted, though they don't support Ron Paul, they're not interested in making jokes about his campaign because the press already has.
C.I.'s "Jamie Leigh Jones and other realities ignored," Rebecca's "the strong women (and thank god we have them!)," Elaine's "Only women & countries get 'discovered'" and Mike's "Torture, Dave Lindorff, Dave Zirin" -- all explain why abuse isn't overlooked or forgotten.
"Deep into White" & "THIS JUST IN! IT DON'T GET ANY WHITE-ER!" -- a favorite of many who e-mailed this site. We didn't have a funny caption as Obama continues to rack up nominations from White America. We asked C.I. for one and were provided with this: "So who's next? Edgar Winter?"
"Howard Zinn, Third" -- Jim picked this and it's Mike breaking down last week's edition of Third.
"I Hate The War" -- C.I.'s Thursday night entry. We love it for a number of reasons including but not limited to the fact that The Ballet's "I Hate The War" will now be the featured lyrical excerpt.