Another Sunday.
First up, we thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:
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),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
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?
Two weeks in a row, Chris Hedges gets a truest.
Margaret Kimberley's had a truest before but you have to go back a bit.
Please read C.I.'s "Hejira" that just went up. The stuff we covered in this editorial? Antiwar.com is STILL not aware of it. It's really past time that supposed 'independent' outlets stopped replying on AFP, et al and started relying on Iraqi media. They wouldn't look as uninformed if they did that.
Ava and C.I. knew they were going to write about Happy Endings, they just didn't know how they'd write about it this time. I (Jim) think the readers will love this.
When Madeline Kahn was a guest on The Carol Burnett Show, she did one of "The Family" skits. "The Family" is how Eunice, Ed and Mama were known back then. In her skit, Madeline played an actress -- who'd been in the film Catwoman From Mars -- who lets Eunice be in a local play (after Eunice buys 200 tickets) and they act out the scene from Mary Queen of Scots where "A bastard profanes the English throne" appears. That's what made us think of it.
Nope, the BBC didn't give a damn about the protests in Iraq on Friday.
We roundtable on a number of items.
Joan Wile reports from the forefront of the efforts to stop The Drone War.
We have a new e-mail address.
Repost from Workers World.
Mike and the gang wrote this.
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.
