A Note to Our Readers

Well we've never scrambled so hard. Part of the reason is that it takes a lot of time to do the roundtable. But there's also the fact that we were less prepared this week.

But we're up and hopefully you'll find something worth reading.

The way the note works is that The Third Estate Sunday Review hangs around until this note goes up. That's Jim, Ava, Jess, Ty and Dona. And we're looking at some very tired people so we'll move quickly.

Our editorial focuses on Daniel Okrent. And thanks to Ava and C.I. who broke away for a bit to do a joint entry over at The Common Ills and found that TCI community members were upset by Okrent's op-ed. Like C.I., we wouldn't have even bothered to read it, had people not drawn our attention to it.

Thanks to Ava & C.I. While they were doing that and their TV review, we were working on a humorous piece about John Cloud. We was Ty, Dona, Jess and Jim plus Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude. And as Rebecca said as we were scratching our heads and stumbling around, "It's not as easy as it looks." And as Ty noted, we never again should attempt to do a humorous post without Ava and C.I. or Betty (Thomas Friedman is a Great Man) who also excells in humor. It's not as easy as it looks.

No one read Ava & C.I.'s review on The Simple Life. We'll read it later today. And Ava can come in and fix any typos. But we were all tired and wanting to be put to this to bed.

We wanted to do the roundtable last time. One reason we avoided it was C.I. felt some of our feelings on one topic discussed (read the roundtable) were too raw and fresh and that heated remarks might be made that we'd later wish we'd worded differently. Having now said our peace, we feel like we've let it go.

Our apologies for not having anything up at all early this morning. We weren't even aware that we hadn't posted things saved to draft. Ava and C.I. came back from their joint entries to advise us of that.

We thank Betty, Rebecca and the groovy Kat for their participation in the roundtable. We thank Rebecca for assisting on the blog highlight selection and for her help on the editorial and the John Cloud piece. We thank C.I. for roundtable and helping on the editorial. As well as, as always, for writing the TV review with Ava.

To readers waiting for "Dear Third Estate Sunday Review" we swear we'll have one up next week.

-- Jim, Dona, Jess, Ty and Ava.