Hey --
Sunday evening, finally done.
Holiday exists and entrances meant the smartest thing to do this morning was to put up the note saying we'd post this evening.
We thank everyone who helped. That includes Dallas and:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, and Ava,
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,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ
and Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends.
And what did we come up with?
Truest statement of the week -- John Ross, the clear winner for the week.
Editorial: The Treaty -- The treaty passed off as a SOFA and passed off by the press as ending the illegal war. They keep saying irony died with Barack's election but we think it 'twas honest that died.
TV: Rosie and Other Bombs -- This is great. This was not what they had written. They were half-way done this morning -- Ava and C.I. -- when Dona and I (Jim) made the call that we'd put the edition on pause. I looked at what they'd written when I woke up and it was okay (same topic, by the way, they didn't change that) but it didn't really grab me. I wrote it off as everyone can have a bad week. When they woke up, they tore into this and completely rewrote it. This is incredible.
The E-Z Bake critics of Panhandle Media -- How to be an insta-critic? Trot out the same old CDS aimed at Hillary, get further and further from the truth and act like you're really doing something, like you're offering something new or brave.
Video On Demand? -- Technology article. We have several of these planned for the immediate future. We may do one on music next time or may stay with films.
Book discussion roundtable -- I love this. I'm not sure how everyone else will feel. If it weren't for C.I. it wouldn't be up. There's an entire paragraph that was left out of the transcript and C.I. said, "Hey, Jim, where is it?" It was C.I.'s statements. I went back to the notes and saw I had left it out, typed it in, hit publish and got an error message. I was going to retype it but C.I. said, "Screw it, if someone complains, they complain." It's a rush transcript. Book lovers have what they've been waiting for. That's why we hate doing book discussions. They take forever.
Simon Assaf's "Iraq deal does not end the war" -- Reprint from Great Britain's Socialist Worker. Why not "UK"? Community member Pru prefers "Great Britain." (Seriously.)
Then and Now -- Short feature! Dona was thrilled.
Greens and Marcelo -- January event.
Highlights -- Stan, Rebecca, Kat, Betty, Cedric, Ruth, Marcia, Wally, Elaine and Mike wrote this and selected all the highlights unless otherwise noted.
Note -- Heads up that we would be posting late.
And that's it. That's the edition. See you next week.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.