Hey --
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Most of the edition was finished early Sunday. We then took a lengthy break. We thank all who participated this week:
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,
Trina of
Trina's Kitchen,Marcia of
SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of
Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of
The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of
Ann's Mega Dub.
And what did we come up with?
- Kelly McEvers gets her first truest for this report in which she signed off quoting an Iraqi.
Cindy Sheehan continues to get the truest. Dalia Hashad, where have you gone? (Truest was invented to note Hashad. At that point, she was one of four co-hosts of Law and Disorder and ,after she gave birth to her first child, she moved on to other opportunities. Time and again, Dalia cut through the crap. That included when a man was on the program discussing Camilo Mejia and he didn't know what he was talking about -- and tried to correct Dalia who was, in fact, right. When this feature first started, we could have just as easily called it "Dalia Hashad's statement of the week.")
- We all worked on this piece. Ava and C.I. did so by phone, having already made it to Los Angeles. The editorial was one of our most difficult pieces, believe it or not, and mainly due to trying to figure out our angle.
Ava and C.I. tackle another better-watch-it-quick-before-it's-gone Fox sitcom.
Ava and C.I. did not help with this. They were out the door early this morning -- taking Jess with them -- because they are at the Academy Awards as I (Jim) type. They did however help via a series of brief phone calls -- help with facts. And my apologies. Dona just found when Shirley Temple won her Oscar. We left that out of the article because Wikipedia had it wrong. C.I. knew the year and told me, "Jim, that is incorrect. Do not put that in the article. I don't care what Wikipedia says!" We had a lot of fun with this article.
Seriously, do not buy this book. This morning, we continued posting this as an editorial and getting everything up. If we had done that, we wouldn't have had the Oscar piece or my solo piece.
Netflix. Stan did a screen snap when they recommended a "romantic" film for him.
My solo piece. I hadn't done one in a while and wasn't sure how strong the edition was so thought I'd toss this out.
With C.I. in LA, we didn't have to ask for permission. As Mike would say, :D. Seriously, this is a repost of C.I. and she would have argued against it if she were here.
A survey piece regarding Lara Logan. Remember, illustration here was done by Kat, Wally and Betty's oldest son.
We were all shocked that one person could be so stupid.
Mike and the gang worked on this and we thank them for it.
And that's what we came up with.
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and
C.I.