Sunday, May 17, 2015

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.



"Mother Jones: Sexist and pro-war" -- most requested highlight of the week by readers of this site.


 "Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot" and "Iraq snapshot" -- All last week, C.I. covered the Brooking's event that Sunnis Atheel al-Nujaifi and Rafe al-Assawi appeared at.




 
"Arrow season finale,"The Originals,"The Mindy Project,"'revenge' - the good,"Revenge (the echoes),"scandal - just stupid," "State of Affairs (Nick)," "Oh, look, it's the War Hawk Amanpour,"
"Supergirl," "Julia Roberts still thinks she matters," "The truth about Dave," "TV lethargy," "revenge - the worst," "Kalinda is the new Cher," "revenge - questions,"  "Barbara Hershey," "The misteps of TV," "revenge,"  "Cristela," "American Idol," "I can only judge what I've seen," "Stalker" and "Of all the stupidity . . ."  -- Stan, Marcia, Ann, Betty, Ruth, Elaine, Trina, Kat and Mike cover TV.


"Playlists and lists in general" -- Elaine on the issue of lists

"Idiot of the week" -- Mike calls it.


"Sex offenders in the military,"  "Rape and assault in the military" and "Advanced Weapons Technology War Games" -- National Defense Authorization coverage from Ruth, Trina and Kat.



"America's jaw drops open" and "THIS JUST IN! THE COUNTRY IS SHOCKED!" -- who knew she had a soul to save.


"The Idiotic Susan Rice" -- Isaiah dips into the archives.


"Only the poor go to prison" -- Trina calls it.






"Cranky has nothing to say -- not a single word" and "THIS JUST IN! CRANKY COURTS LATINO VOTERS!" -- Cedric and Wally not Cranky's silence.