Sunday, November 27, 2011

A note to our readers

Hey --

Another late Sunday.


First up, we thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.


There's an exception to the credits listed and we'll note it when we get to it. Most people were off for the holidays. We (Ava and C.I.) actually encouraged Kat and Rebecca to take time off but they wanted to work on this edition (and their participation was greatly appreciated).

So what did we come up with?

Marcia had blogged last week noting this and we agreed with her on this. We made it the truest and hope when she sees it, she's pleased. (She called it first at her site in "A truest.")
This is Debra Sweet and we feel it's a truest as well. If you use the link, you can read her thoughts in full and you can also donate to World Can't Wait if you'd like.


Ty is on vacation. He was on vacation last week. Which meant, a rare thing, we worked the site's e-mails. We found the e-mail on Judy Woodruff Saturday morning and printed it out to pin it to a board in the kitchen so we wouldn't forget it while working on this edition. Rebecca, Ann, Elaine, Mike, Cedric, Stan and we worked on this. It was the last thing written and Kat had gone off to sleep before we began it. (We didn't blame her.)
The Sunday after every Thanksgiving has found us covering a holiday special. This is our seventh one and only the second special we've been able to praise whole-heartedly. Original illustration was done quickly and poorly by us.
Stan was outraged by the Van Jones profile and felt we needed to do something on it since this community notes POLITICO very often. (Why? Because most of their articles also include the option of "listen." Therefore they can be enjoyed by those who need text and by those who need audio.) We saw Stan's point and agreed with it. We also felt that his point actually applied to a common practice at POLITICO, where they hype a subject beyond recognition. This was worked on by Rebecca, Kat, Stan, Ann, Cedric, Mike, Elaine and us.

This was the 9th pick. (For any wondering, we already knew what the last two picks were. We -- Ava and C.I. -- didn't stage a pre-emptive move against Jim, Dona, Ty and Jess. We'd already agreed what the last two picks would be.) There is one more to go. Stan, Cedric, Ann, Elaine, Mike, Rebecca, Kat and we worked on this.
Two TV pieces because, again, we read the e-mails. If we hadn't, we wouldn't have written this. If Ty had told us this was in the e-mails, we would have just nodded and focused on something else; however, reading the e-mails and seeing how impassioned 37 of you were on this topic turned it into a feature. As with TV pieces at this site the blame for this goes to us alone (Ava and C.I.)
A repost from Workers World.
A repost from Great Britian's Socialist Worker.

Mike got everybody together on the phone Saturday evening for this and it was written by Mike, Rebecca, Kat, Cedric, Ann, Stan, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ, Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Wally of The Daily Jot. We thank them for their work.

And we thank Kat, Mike, Elaine, Rebecca, Ann, Stan and Cedric for their work with us on the other pieces.

We were lucky to be face-to-face with Mike and Elaine for this edition. Wanting them to get some sleep, we started this writing edition at 5:00 a.m. We knew we'd grab two features and write them ourselves. So we didn't waste time debating or discussing those two. Instead, we started with the fact that we needed one more truest and everyone looked while we discussed what else we could do this edition. We were able to move along quickly and had everything written an hour before we finally began posting. The delay? We wanted to see Mike and Elaine off at the airport.

Is it a perfect edition? Hell no. But it wouldn't be perfect if we'd spent 16 hours on it. It is what it is, as Kat always says. One thing we wanted to do but knew we couldn't? Comics.

Dona's actually got a comics piece planned for next edition. It's the piece she's repeatedly wanted covered here and, if it didn't involve her favorite comics as a very little girl, we might have been tempted to poach it. Instead, the 12 of you who wrote noting that it has been forever since there was a comic piece should look for it next Sunday.



Peace.

-- Ava and C.I.
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