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" -- Most requested entry of the week, C.I.'s. (Most requested by readers of this site.)
"Afghanistan and Iraq," "AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ," "Roundtable Friday," "roundtable," "Roundtable," "Roundtable in the Kitchen," "Roundtable on Iraq and Afghanistan," "Roundtabling Afghanistan and Iraq," "Roundtable Friday," "Roundtable Afghanistan and Iraq," "Roundtable" and "Roundtable" -- Roundtabling Friday. Not planned but needed. Be sure to check this out because there is a huge cross section of topics including refugees and how the word gets out to fight disinformation.
"Iraq snapshot" & "Iraq snapshot" -- C.I. covers the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's hearing on Chris Hill's nomination to be Ambassador to Iraq.
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Celebrity President" -- Our Starlet-In-Chief, Barack.
"THIS JUST IN! SPENCER ACKERMAN & HIS KRYPTONITE VAGINA!" and "Spencer Ackerman has problems" -- Wally and Cedric offer media critique of the former New Republic writer Spencer Ackerman -- former because he was, of course, fired.
"Wanda Coleman," "julia alvarez, elizabeth schulte," "Gwendolyn Brooks," "LoVerne Wilson Brown," '"Straight Talk" (Judith Moss),' 'Melvin B. Tolson's "Napoleon Hannibal Speare",' "Ramon Guthrie, force-feeding" and "e.e. cummings, Iraq" -- Betty, Rebecca, Ruth, Kat, Marcia, Stan, Elaine and Mike cover poetry in this Tuesday night theme.
"Dorothy West," "cole swensen: is it poetry?," "Glyn Maxwell's Hide Now," "Latinos In Lotusland," "Jenny Schwartz God's Ear," "He thought he could write a book but he was wrong," "Wallas Shawn's Our Last Night" and "Neal LaBute" -- Betty, Rebecca, Ruth, Kat, Marcia, Stan, Elaine and Mike cover books in this theme Wednesday night post.
"What Ava and C.I. said, amen!," "The economy and more," "Langston Hughes, Isaiah" and "Iraq, Edna St. Vincey Millay" -- Betty, Ruth and Elaine covered poetry Monday night thereby influencing Tuesday and Trina's post influenced all week long. Call it the 'predictors'.
"Ted Rall: Wussie Boy" & "Norman Solomon, bust him on a morals charge" -- Needed media critiques from Mike and Betty