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.


"CPJ looks the other way as Nouri threatens Fakhir Karim" -- most requested highlight of the week by readers of this site.



"Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Deaths of Children" -- Isaiah takes on the Drone War.



"Kat's Korner: Stones release a tooth grinder" -- Kat takes on the latest Stones repackaging and shares additional thoughts in "Thoughts on the Stones."


"Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Brad Sherman,"  "Howard Berman's fuzzy figures (Ava)," "Waste at the State Dept. is okay (Wally)," "Gary Ackerman, Embarrassing Ass" and "Benghazi questions must still wait" -- C.I., Ava, Wally and Ruth attend the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing and report on them.





 "The idiot Glenn Greenwald," "Iraq snapshot," "World Can't Wait goes completely nuts," "The sexism of Glenn Greenwald," "Dianne, Carl and John, shut the f**k up,"  "Debra Sweet, kiss my Black ass,"  "World Can't Wait jumps off the deep end" and "F**k you, Bill Van Auken" -- Ann, C.I., Kat, Stan and Elaine on the latest nonsense from our defocused friends.

  "Monkey Business," "good going for penny marshall," "Movies" and  "Total Recall" -- Stan and Rebecca go to the movies.



"Fringe 'Black Blotter'," "Gossip Girl as it should have ended" and "GG again" -- Mike and Marcia cover TV.


 "Stephen Zunes shows up late for the party" -- Elaine calls out a latecomer.


"The news today," "Another reason for concern in Iraq," and "Nouri's next move?" --  Betty, Ruth and Mike cover Iraq.

"THIS JUST IN! BAD NEWS FOR BOBBY!" and "Somerby's big lie gets rejected" -- Wally and Cedric fact check the asshole.

"How bad are things really?" and "Tuition rates don't bother everyone" -- Trina on the economy.

"Inouye's funeral" -- Betty calls out Barack's familiarity at a funeral.

"Holiday thoughts" and "Christmas work party" --  Betty and Ann note the holiday.


"Full On Federline" -- Isaiah dips into the archives.






"Tapping and slapping" and "THIS JUST IN! PRINCESS LOVES PSY!" -- Cedric and Wally on Princess Barry's main man.