Highlights

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, Ann of Ann's Mega Dub, Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.


"I Hate The War" -- Most requested highlight by the readers of this site.

"Squash Casserole in the Kitchen" -- Trina weighs in on the economy and offers a new recipe.

"Photo-op (Ava)" -- Ava explains that immigration talks are not photo-ops with celebrities.

"Sushi, Guantanamo, TV," "Desperate Housewives," "brothers & sisters," "Fringe, tapiocca," "Best TV moment of the last 10 years," "Guantanamo, game changer" and "The Event" -- Mike, Betty, Rebecca, Ruth, Elaine and Marcia cover TV. And Ruth notes her TV moment is from season four of Medium.


"Phoebe Snow" -- Kat notes a passing.

"Shut up, Jesse" -- Marcia's pissed.

"Cell phones and other things" and "New cell phone" -- Betty and Mike talk cell phones.


"gary shapiro is 1 of the greatest dangers to the country" -- Rebecca calls out a blow hard.

"Teaser?" -- Ruth anticipates a feature here this week.

"Years later . . ." -- Betty reflects.


"Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell" -- Kat writes about music.


"She really is Gross" and "If PBS had an ombudsperson, Jim Lehrer would be apologizing" --
Elaine and Ruth tackle NPR and PBS while Ann tackles The Diane Rehm Show:

• 4 men, 2 women
• All of her guests were men
• Diane Rehm
• 4 men, 1 woman
• 2 guests, both men

"Ed Wood" and "James Bond films" -- Stan goes to the movies and highlights this 90s classic and notes James Bond films are available for streaming (some James Bond films) at Netflix.

"Fight or don't run" -- Stan breaks it down.


"Bloody War Hawks" -- Isaiah dips into the archives.

"Ed Wood" -- Stan goes to the movies

"THIS JUST IN! SEE HOW THEY LIE!!!" and "Bigamy" -- Wally and Cedric break it down once again, Barack Obama Sr. was a bigamist while in the US. Bigamy is illegal and no marriages after the first one (his wife in Kenya) would have been recognized as legal by the US government.