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 of the week and the second most is this "Iraq snapshot."

Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Campaign Begins In Earnest" -- What will be the 2012 campaign motto?


"Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "A failure of VA leadership (Ava)," "Who's crunching the numbers at VA? (Wally)" and "What is sexual assault?" -- C.I., Ava, Wally and Kat report on Congressional hearings.


Monday night was theme posts: Mike's "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (Pauline Kael's movie critiques), Trina's "Collected Stories" (Tennessee Williams' Collected Stories), Rebecca's "pigs at the trough" (Arianna Huffington book), Kat's "Rock Encyclopedia" (the classic text), Ann's "4 men, 1 woman" (Gore Vidal's Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace), Marcia's "Embassytown" (China Mieville's new novel), Elaine's "Left Bank and Other Stories" (short stories by Jean Rhys), Ruth's "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" (novelizations of Disney films in an attempt to increase reading among children -- this is a novelization of a Disney film starring Kurt Russell), Betty's "Lorraine Hansberry: The Collected Plays" (the title says it all but for any who might not place the name immediately, she is the playwright who wrote A Raisin in the Sun) and Stan's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" (Greg Palast's classic book).

"THIS JUST IN! JOBS FOR SALE!" and "The White House provides jobs" -- Wally and Cedric report . . .

"THIS JUST IN! CORRECTION FOR THE RECORD!" and "We regret our error" -- and Wally and Cedric issue a correction.

"Quick Pasta in the Kitchen" -- Trina offers a quick and simple recipe and talks about the economy.

"The Cult and their leader" -- Betty on what needs to happen.

"Speed 2," "Green Lantern underwhelms at the box office" and "Green Lantern"-- Stan and Mike cover movies and Ann covers radio:

• 4 men, 2 women
• 3 men, 3 women
• 2 women, 4 men
• 4 men, 1 woman
• 4 men, 1 woman

"17 months" -- Rebecca wants a cut down.


"Harry Reid, the eternal disgrace" -- Ruth wants a new Senate Majority Leader.

"Jay The Fool Carney" and "Jay Carney is an idiot" -- Kat continues her focus on Jay Carney.


"It's LGBT and Russ Feingold needs to wake the hell up" -- Marcia lets it rip.

"Donald Kerr on the job" -- Isaiah dips into the archives.

"Time to send a message" -- Elaine on 2012.