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.


"Hejira" -- most requested highlight of the week.

Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "I Want Four More Years" -- Isaiah on Barack's wants.
 

"Corn and black eyed peas in the Kitchen" -- Trina offers a simple recipe that can be a salad or a dip.

"7 men" and "7 men" --  Ann had two posts entitled 7 men and, for those e-mailing, neither she nor Ava and C.I. have forgotten that they're going to do a piece on Talk of the Nation shortly.

"green jobs?" -- Rebecca notes that the definition is rather elastic.

"Stevie Nicks" -- Kat weighs in on favorite Stevie music.

"Serenity"  and "This Means War" -- Marcia and Stan go to the movies.

"Burning Love" -- Stan also weighs in on the web comedy.

"Al Distraction" -- Isaiah dips into the archives for when Al Sharpton declared war on comics.

"ObamaCare still unpopular" -- Even after the verdict, Elaine shows us, ObamaCare is still not popular.

"Not the way to talk about your fans" -- Mike goes to Comic-Con.  And, yes, we have an article on Comic-Con for this edition.

"He tells you what he wants, what he really, really wants" and "THIS JUST IN! WHAT A GIRL WANTS!" -- America was denied their first woman president but they appear to have gotten their first girly-man.

"Mitt's speech," "Romney and the NAACP," "Talk about embarrassing" and  "4 men, 2 women" -- Betty, Marcia, Stan and Ann weigh in on Mitt's NAACP speech.

"oh, speak up, joe biden" and "oh, shut up, joe biden" -- Rebecca on Biden's campaigning.

 "Time for some brave move," "Roseanne Barr's sour grapes," "Stein's choice is Honkala" and
"Big Day for the Green Party" -- Trina, Ruth, C.I. and Elaine on Jill Stein's announcement of her running mate.

 "Crapapedia" -- Betty weighs in on that website.  (And, yes, we have the feature she spoke of for this week.)

"I Miss America" -- Ruth's thoughts on the landscape.

"Spying and sushi" -- Mike's grab bag post.

"THIS JUST IN! HE STILL STRUGGLES!" and "The deadlock" -- Wally and Cedric point out that the race remains tight.