Of course, many of you already are – no offense!
Now, if you were expecting to find short-cuts to pecuniary riches, you will be disappointed. Being a political junkie you want to be informed. To stay very well informed. Which is why you are a contributor/member/reader of Daily Kos. But it is hard to keep up in between all other daily duties, whatever they may be, given the incredible amount of content that is published every day, 24/7.
[This diary was originally published on Daily Kos yesterday, but may be relevant to Tribbers as well.]
But you are a political junkie, and only by reading a ridiculous number of diaries every day is your addiction satisfied so that you remain confident that you are in the 1%. The 1% of the population most informed on current events, political analysis and the behind-the-scenes politicking that makes it all worthwhile.
Now there is help for you! An intrepid team has banded together to give you The GOS Weekly Review. The team provides:
Weekly review and commentary (with snark) of trending news topics such as Environment, Civil Rights, Community, Elections, Healthcare, Economy, Politics, Media, The President, The Politicians, Science, OWS, Labor, Education, Energy and Women’s Issues. Complete with Animal Nuz and fresh snark!
You can get the App available for iPad (only) here.
There are costs involved in this project, so there is a monthly subscription fee. Single issues are available as well.
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Team:
Bionic – Publisher of The GOS Weekly Review and application developer.
Merrill Barnes, Managing Editor, has written and edited for books, blogs, websites and newspapers. She now knows that you can take the girl out of the newsroom but you can’t take the newsroom out of the girl. She’s also been a Wall Street banker, a caterer and an extra on The Guiding Light, not necessarily in that order.
Bill Harnsberger is an Eagle Scout. When not doing such things as attempting to get innocent bystanders to take part in spontaneous Glee-like production numbers in the middle of busy intersections, he writes his Daily Kos column “Cheers and Jeers” as “Bill in Portland Maine”(now in its 9th year). He has managed to travel from his Ohio birthplace via stops in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Saginaw, Michigan, to his current residence in Portland, on the stern and rugged rockbound coast of Maine, where he lives with his partner, Michael.
Asinus Asinum Fricat is the Daily Kos blog name of French-born Patric Juillet. He is the author of The Patric Juillet Cookbook and a number of eBooks on food and ecology. He lives in the west of Ireland with his partner, Barbara, and their three daughters, and is busy writing the next two volumes of his maybe-autobiographical trilogy, Memoirs of a Sardine Lover.
“ask” hails from the northern fringes of Europe and was previously a union chair in his native land. He’s been an expat for the last 25 years working for international organizations.
Steve Bracken, with roots deep in the Yorkshire mills and coalfields as the son of a union organizer, moved to the U.S. in 2005. Settled in Oklahoma with wife Jodie and three stepchildren, he is frequently starved of intelligible conversation by the Ocean of Red lapping against the front door of his adopted home, a problem partly alleviated by blogging as “twigg”. He also rides in long-distance motorcycle rallies, noting that it’s one way to visit friendlier states.
Kevin J. Getty has been writing since he was four years old. Sometimes what he scribbles about is of interest to humans; sometimes it isn’t.
Susan Grigsby is a young senior who spent time in the commercial property/casualty insurance industry before seeing the light and setting off on 12 years of travel throughout the United States. Now retired, she lives in the high desert of Southern California with far too many cats.
Eric Lewis draws funny pictures for such as The New Yorker, his hometown magazine, and the Environmental Defense Fund. At least two cartoons are famous — the Guggenheim Museum owns the original art for one, and Jon Stewart read another to his audience on The Daily Show. Eric posts “Animal Nuz” every Saturday at Daily Kos as “ericlewis0”.
Jeffrey Lieber is a TV VIP whose credits include Lost, Necessary Roughness and Miami Medical. He’s also a blogger, good-guy family man and prodigious producer of typos [his term]. Originally from Chicago, he finds winters much warmer in Venice, California.
Dennis Mersereau lives in North Carolina and attends college in Alabama, majoring in political science with a minor in meteorology. He plans to teach, which he’s done at Daily Kos since 2009, where as “weatherdude” he’s educated thousands of readers in the fine points of scary weather.
Madison Paige was a pioneer in producing media-rich websites when the Internet was still mostly words. Her PPPTV.org will launch next year as the country’s first completely non-commercial, audience participatory, collaborative production studio focused on high quality, enriching television entertainment for worldwide audiences. She blogs at Daily Kos as mdmslle.
“Militarytracy” is married to an active-duty career soldier who was deployed to Iraq in the spring of 2003. Nothing made sense, there were no WMDs, nobody gets back the same soldier that they send to war, and she was furious. So she followed her GOTVing grandmother’s example of political involvement; blogging gave her connections to others seeking policy solutions. One of her two children is disabled, and regular fighting with his for-profit insurer has opened her eyes about shortcomings in the health industry.
You already know many of the contributors; now go ahead, check out your first issue.