"Iraq snapshot" and "I Hate The War" -- That's C.I.'s Friday snapshot and Thursday night entry. Ty told us there was one vote's difference between the two as most requested highlight to those e-mailing in to this site (thirdestatesundayreview@yahoo.com). We would agree so. We'd in fact, go even further and toss in some other snapshots. Which we in fact are doing.
"Iraq snapshot" and "Iraq snapshot" -- Tuesday and Wednesday's snapshots. Our picks for favorites of the week. In each of them, C.I.'s reporting on a Congressional hearing. You didn't read about those hearing anywhere else. [Ty note added Monday, 4-27, they meant C.I.'s Wednesday and Thursday snapshot, here's the link to Thursday's snapshot.] Except maybe . . .
"Subcommittee hearing" -- Kat attended Tuesday's hearing with C.I. and she, Ava and Wally attended the Wednesday hearing as well. Here she writes a few impressions of the Wednesday hearing.
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Court-ordered" -- The media's lost but Nelson gets it in this comic by Isaiah. And at his own site, Isaiah dipped into the comic archives to highlight "The 'Fashionable' Condoleeza de Vil."
"Quick post" and "Diary entry" -- Betty's folks are visiting so we're all being cleared extra early. (Betty's folks should visit more often!) She explains some of her hopes and fears in these posts.
"Austism" and "Autism" -- April is Autism Awareness Month and Ruth did two posts on the topic to do her part.
"THIS JUST IN! STRUMMING HIS FATE!" & "Good thing he didn't face Simon Cowell" -- Cedric and Wally on Fidel's review of Barry.
"Fudge Brownies in the Kitchen" -- Trina ways in on the torture memos and offers an easy brownie recipe.
"Ban Ki-moon's homophobia" -- Marcia notices that while Ban Ki-moon issues statements of outrage over nearly every death in Iraq, he never expresses outrage over the murders of gay men. Never.
"The Harman trap," "Jane Harman" and "e-mails" -- Marcia, Stan and Rebecca. Rebecca kicked it off by answering e-mails. One was about Harman and Rebecca offered her take and asked C.I. for a take as well. The next day, Stan and Marcia offered their own. What they covered stands for all of us. Is charges are dropped or the transcript or wire tap is released, we might have something to say. Right now it is just unsourced allegations on something that, if true, would be criminal. We'll wait and see.
"We need prosecution" -- Elaine on torture.
""Matthis Chiroux," "clive james," "Clive Jones," "4274 killed since the start of the illegal war," "Iraq & Clive James," "The say anything Danny Schechter," "War widows" and "Clive Jones" -- the Tuesday night theme post. And questions came in. Ty passed some on. First off, what book did we drop at the last minute? A book of essays by Robert Fisk. Why? Turns out the Nation Books published it. We're not in the business of supporting Katrina. Second, who didn't want to participate? A number of you felt someone was opposed and most of you guessed Rebecca. We can't imagine why you'd guess Rebecca. The person who didn't want to do it was also the woman who got his name wrong. It is Clive James. In fairness to Ruth, Mike also went with Jones. Why didn't Ruth want to do it? She'd read a book she loved as part of our non-fiction theme and was eager to write on that. She did write on it and slid it over to Hilda's Mix.
"The pervs sniffing Eliot Spitzer" -- Marcia, she makes us laugh! :D Well said, Marcia.
"He doesn't understand the law" & "THIS JUST IN! THE LAW CONFUSES BARACK!" -- Cedric and Wally on Barack's inability to grasp things he allegedly taught. (Though Robert Gibbs recently snapped in a White House press briefing that Barry wasn't, in fact, a Constitutional Law professor. Maybe Gibbs was having another one of those bad days.)