Welcome to OS Readers’ Picks

         This week's RPs in the POST category go to:

Ann Nichols – Student Loan Debt:  No Way Out

Bill Beck – Why Do We Keep Doing This       

Bill Beck – Second Amendment Delusions

Deborah Méndez Wilson – Mind Your Head

Deborah Young – An Armed Society is a Polite Society

Erica k – Play it Cool Boy Girl

escrito por nada – Confessions of a Former Gun Nut

fernsy  -- iHowl- With Apologies to Allan Ginsburg

flyloooper  -- The Unspoken Victim in Colorado -- Truth

Gail Walter –Women Are Doing It for Themselves

Jennifer Prestholt – The Lessons of 22 July

jlsathre – Watching a Marathon

libbyliberalnyc – Let There Be a Benign Reason to Crawl Thru My Window at 3 a.m.

Lizz Schumer --  Where My Water Goes:  What My Summer Drought Looks Like

Mimetalker – Mother-in-Law’s Advice How to Raise Black Boys

Mimetalker – The Kennedy Center Presents… my son

tg within – Flight-mare 395

    This week's RPs in the COMMENT category go to:

 anna1liese – for her comment on Jake Sugarman’s post Site Problems

Chicken Maaan – for his comment on Bernadine Spitzsnogel’s Dry Land {This post is no longer available for reading}

Tinkerertink69 – for his comment on Jake Sugarman’s OC : Aurora Theater Shooting

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

 REMINDER:  Please nominate your choices in the Comments section below.  To assist our busy adminstrators, please remember to include the link to the post you are nominating.

ALSO:  Since our OSRP Administrators do not officially nominate any posts, it is not necessary to send PM announcements of your new posts to this blog space. Individual admins nominate under their personal blog identities.

AND:  Self-nominated posts will be disqualified.

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You are all used to Editor's Pick; this one is selected by your fellow bloggers.

For this blog to be useful, we have established criteria, both for recommending posts and for commenting on those recommendations. 

To nominate posts:

• Choose posts based on quality of writing, interest of content, or particularly illuminating POV. We are more concerned about whether the blogger is good than whether the blogger is right. 
•  Explain/justify your choice

•  Please avoid: 

1. Choosing a post based strictly on friendship 
2. Choosing a post just because you agree with its content
3. Bringing a post to our attention for the sole purpose of     condemning it. This isn’t Readers’ Pans.
4. Choosing a post where most of what’s in the post does not consist of the blogger’s own work.
5. Self-nomination   

To comment on nominations:  

• Please limit comments to reasons for supporting or opposing the recognition of a post. Comments about specific content belong in the Comments of the post itself. 
• Particularly if you oppose recognition, please write about the post itself and write as little as possible about the blogger. Please avoid being insulting – rudeness can get a comment deleted following a PM warning.  

To nominate a Comment on any post :

We have added nominations for Comments within a blog. Some OSers do some of their best work in Comments. Same criteria, same ground rules. When nominating, please give us a link to the post and how to find the comment - preferably the name of the commenter and the time and date the comment was made.    

How this blog works:

Administrators will check on comments and at least one of us will check on recommended posts, then comment on them. If the rationale for inclusion is present in the initial comment, it is seconded by any OS reader,  and the recommendation does not meet with an unusual amount of opposition, a link to the recommended post will be included in the next post on this blog. At this point, it is our plan to post once or twice a week.  

We hope this blog proves useful in terms of providing recognition to those you think deserve it and introducing you to bloggers you may not be aware of whose work is admired by your peers. Thank you for visiting.