Hey --
Somehow Sunday -- and not just here on the west coast, on the east coast as well -- and in between!
Let's thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:
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?
- Truest statment of the week
- A truest delivered to Congress
- Truest statement of the week II
Joseph Kishore gets another truest.
Where's our Iraq piece! We had it. We can't find it. More on that at the end. This is Ava and C.I.'s piece on media and the campaigns of Marianne Williamson and Cornel West. It's a great piece and why we're up with the edition this early. Ava and C.I. had just finished the discussion -- book discussion -- with Isaiah and Stan and typed it up and said they were done. No one blamed them. They were actually up all night working on this and other things. But we were just reading this and were like, "No, no, give us one more hour and we'll have a whole edition up."
The roundtable was done before Ava and C.I. finished the book piece but we were typing it. And it ends with C.I. who, thank goodness, went with an overview type wrap up comment. Maybe that way people won't notice that the roundtable wasn't over. Not only did we not get to type my usual ending sentence or two but Dona also had a bit that was after C.I. spoke. We honestly forgot it wasn't finished -- the typing wasn't finished -- when we posted it. Oh well.
The book discussion.
We quickly worked on that and other things in the hour we were given to wrap up the edition.
Thank you, sincerely, to Kyle for doing what so many others refuse to do.
We really are getting tired of you reporting on one another. Seriously. Just stop.
Jess remembered this while we were rushing for (Dona's words) "Short pieces!" to finish this edition.
Books covered in the community.
There was another one vying. The other one was Luqman explaining how she had to give herself a shot with a photo to illustrate. We probably should have done two Tweets of the week and included them both. (Trina suggested the medical one.)
Isaiah's book review.
Stan's book review.
Ava and C.I. wrote this with memebers of the community and it went up at various community websites on Thursday. We're only publishing now so we're including it.
Dona hoped to do a piece on this hearing but, again, we were rushing to get things pulled together.
What we listened to while working on this edition.
Mike and the gang wrote this and we thank them for it.
We had an Iraq piece. No one can figure out where it is. It was put into Blogger/Blogspot. We don't know what happened. But we're not going to wait any longer. Ava and C.I. have been up since 6 am on Saturday and it is now Sunday at 11:03 am (PST) so we need to keep our promise because they're both ready to head to bedrooms and crash.
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.
