From: Gregory Brown Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2013 4:21 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Greg Brown's Weekend Reading and Other Things.... 05/05/2013 Attachments: Untitled attachment 00115.pdt Untitled attachment 00118.pdf; Untitled attachment 00121.pdf, The Urban Fire Next Time Patrick Shadrey_NYT_April 28, 2013.pdt Untitled attachment 00124.pdt Iraq on the brink, again Ryan Crocker_TWP_April 30, 2013.pdf, Untitled attachment 00127.pdf; Untitled attachment 00130.pdf; Untitled attachment 00133.pdt Untitled attachment 00136.pdt Untitled attachment 00139.pdt Untitled attachment 00142.pdt Meshell Ndegeocello bio.pdf DEAR FRIEND After doing=a "last review/edit" of my Weekend Reading an= sending it to friends, being a political news junkie, I start the week with the Sunday Morning major networks news programs, Face the Nation hosted =y Bob Schieffer/CBS, Meet the Press hosted by David Gregory/NBC and The Week with Ge=rge Stephanopoulos/ABC. Since in LA they all concurre=tly broadcast at 8am, I record them along with Chris Matthew' half-hour weekend new= show on NBC for later viewing. In addition to their round table panels of usual suspects including, George Will, Newt Gindrich,=Mathew Dowd, Chuck Todd, Kelly O'Donald, Bob Woodward, Andrea Mitchell, Dan Rather, David Ignatius, Peggy Noonan, Cokie =oberts, David Brooks, Sam Donaldson, Fareed Zakaria, E.J. Dionne, Jr., Robert Reich= David Gergen, Peggy Noonan, John Dickerson, and Norah O'Donnell, this week&rs=uo;s special guests included Senator Lindsey Graham on CBS, Senator John McCain on NB= and Representative Mike Rogers on ABC, to allow them to 'Monday Mo=ning Quarterback' the past week's political events and decisions. The problem with all of these shows, it that they are often use to settle scores and advance ideological positions, with sound bites being presented as solutions, pro and con, just in case one is correct. And=because great humor is often based on a foundation of truth, what