Hey --
Another Sunday and along with Dallas, 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),
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.
It was a long, long Sunday. We are finally done. What did we come up with?
Matt Rothschild. This is the opening to a column you should really consider reading in full.
C.I. nominated Mike for this and who can argue. Read his entry for the context.
The illustration is by Betty's kids and we thank them. The editorial itself? We were on fumes. It is what it is.
This is the best piece of the edition. Ava and C.I. wrote this. It's really incredible. You have to pay attention and read it and please note that they left out so much because there just wasn't room. They says: Thank you to Andrea Mitchell who spoke out about Helen Thomas' strengths and her career highs and refused to define her by an off-hand remark or to join in the media kill and they note that there are a few (a small number) whom they could note in addition but Andrea Mitchell deserved special thanks.
Our MidEast roundtable. I (Jim) screwed it up. Even with C.I. cautioning me that I was bringing a point in too soon. Everyone else does a great job. Illustration is by Betty's kids.
We were done and posting the articles. We were just about to post Ava and C.I.'s article when Betty's oldest came over and said, "I don't see our drawing of Helen." Oops. We didn't see it either. We asked where it was and he brought us three drawings which we quickly uploaded to Flickr and figured out what to use two in (editorial and another piece). We had nothing for the Helen Thomas piece because we hadn't planned it. So we let the illustration do the talking and we paired it with Ann's comments. Kat and Betty's kids did this illustration.
This is where we used one of the illustrations. I like this article. One of the few that we wrote as a group that ended up being worth publishing.
Our second roundtable. Most of the group pieces were not working so I suggested we do two roundtables.
Mike, Elaine, Wally, Rebecca, Cedric, Ann, Marcia, Stan, Ruth, Kat and Betty wrote this and we thank them for it.
That's all we got. We'll see you next week. Woops. Andrea Mitchell Reports airs Monday through Friday in the afternoon (1:00 pm EST) on MSNBC. Ava and C.I. asked that that be added in.
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.