Highlights

This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix, Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ, Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.





"I Hate The War" -- The most popular highlight in the e-mails, C.I.'s Thursday entry which also has multiple suggestions from readers for Truest statement nominations. We'll try our best but C.I. generally nixes that.



"No use for Margaret Kimberley" & "Margret Kimberley, The Black Apologist" -- Betty and Stan on how there's no need for minimizing homophobia.





"Spicy Potato Slices in the Kitchen" -- Trina's offering some e-mails regarding Christmas, don't miss this.



Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Political Relations" -- Isaiah's latest comic explores Barry and Rod.



"The Invisible Franklin," "Charlie Brown stinks at baseball," "i always identified with sally brown," "The Outing of Charlie Brown," "Franklin and Violet," "A Jewish perspective," "Peanuts in the Kitchen," "Snoopy and Woodstock" and "Charles Shultz' women." -- Stan, Mike, Rebecca, Marica, Betty, Ruth, Trina, Elaine and Kat all weigh in on Charlie Brown, Peanuts and A Charlie Brown Christmas.



"Park Avenue Prisoner Edwin Schlossberg" & "THIS JUST IN! EDWIN SCHLOSSBERG, PRISONER OF PARK AVENUE!"; "THIS JUST IN! PRINCESS BRAT DOESN'T LIKE VOTING!" & "Princess Brat continues power grab"; "THIS JUST IN! DON'T ASK CAROLINE ABOUT HER HUSBAND!""Basic questions cause Caroline Kennedy to run"; and "Caroline Kennedy recommends avoiding the public and sex" & "THIS JUST IN! CAROLINE SAYS PUBLIC IS LIKE SEX!" -- Cedric and Wally explore Caroline Kennedy's entitlement.





"The New Adventures of Old Christine" & "St. Barack disappoints yet again" -- Betty and Trina both posted several times last week and they did so because Wally hurt his foot and you can find out about that in Marcia's "Wally went skiing, behind-the-scenes on a C.I. entry" and Elaine's "Snoopy and Woodstock"



"al-Maliki's latest power grab?"; "Iraq snapshot"; "Arrested because . . ."; "Iraq snapshot" -- Just some of the reading Patrick Cockburn should have done before making an ass out of himself yet again. See Mike's "Debra Sweet and return of idiot of the week" and Patrick is Mike's pick for Idiot of the Week.



"The Happening," "heroes and cry baby sarah posner" and "Chuck and realities" -- Pop culture posts! Stan addresses films (including The Happening), Rebecca talks the last episode of 2008 for Heroes and Mike charts Chuck.









"The auto crisis" -- Kat on the press and the crisis.



"Thoughts on the Homophobic Barack" & "Amnesty" -- Elaine shares thoughts on Barack's homophobia and Ruth offers a look at Panhandle Media -- the cowards and one who stood up.