Hey --
Another Sunday. For a change, we're do extremely early -- especially for us! Dallas and the following helped on this edition:
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),
Trina of Trina's Kitchen,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.
Thank you to everyone who helped. And thank you to Isaiah for the use of two of his comics. And to Betty's kids for their illustration for the roundtable. Now what did we come up with?
Cindy Sheehan, who had the most truests in 2009, racks up another truest in the new year.
Layla Anwar is an Iraqi blogger always willing to speak her truth.
This almost wasn't the editorial. But Dona reminded that C.I. had saved the topic for this site and Ava, Wally, Kat and C.I. reminded what they were hearing from Republicans in Congress about the 2012 elections. It made this an Iraq-heavy edition and I (Jim) don't say that as an "Oh no!" That's fine. We always include Iraq and we try to focus on the illegal war as much as we can. This is an editorial you should bookmark because you'll want to remember it when 2012 rolls around.
Ava and C.I. take on the hideous Amy Goodman who seems to think Democracy Now! now airs on the E channel. After months of being called out for ignoring the Iraq Inquiry, Goody finally devotes a 'segment' to it -- approximately two minutes and she and her guest can't even get the story straight in that limited time. She truly does produce trash TV.
Iraq
Our weekly Iraq feature. If it seems weightier than usual it's because we didn't wait until the last minute to write it as we sometimes do.
We heard the commentary after six readers in Houston e-mailed to complain about it. If you find something awful, feel free to e-mail, we will work it in if we can.
This was supposed to be a light e-mail. It gets a little heavier than I expected in some places. Ty notes he had an e-mail for C.I. but time ran out and he'll try to get an answer from C.I. and e-mail the reader back on that.
It really doesn't. We had thought, at one point, that this could be an editorial. It just didn't work out. Finally, we lopped off twelve paragraphs and posted it as a short piece.
This may change. Ava and C.I. have not read over it. I took all the notes they took and the three drafts we wrote of this and blended everything together. They're tired and want to get some sleep but note they may change it later tonight if they remember to look at it. (A note has already been added since this first posted. Ava, C.I., Ty and Dona wrote the note added.)
Mike, Elaine, Cedric, Ann, Stan, Marcia, Ruth, Rebecca, Betty, Kat and Wally wrote this and we thank them for it.
And that's what we ended up with. We'll see you next week.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.