A note to our readers

Another edition. We're actually running ahead of time in some ways. We had to all take a break on the orders of the UK Computer Gurus to install some new privacy software. We were in the middle of posting when that happened. But we were all but done with the editorial.

There's no "Five Books, Five Minutes" this edition. There wasn't time. Dona was a task master on everyone and e-mailed Monday and Tuesday that if it hadn't been started, it wasn't happening. When the idea was brought up tonight, she reminded everyone of the e-mail. She said we had plenty of original content and she wasn't participating in a last minute thing that should have already been started.

But due to Mike's persistance (and because we all love Mike) we did end up doing "One Book, Ten Minutes" so thank Mike for that. And we forgot to mention it in the book discussion but Ava just remembered that we need to say thanks to Sue in Fresno who suggested that we review the book. Sue, thank you.

What do we have?

We have our editiorial. Check it out.

We have an interview with Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix. We have a musical discussion with Kat, C.I. and Jess about Carole King's latest CD. We have "Dear Third Estate Sunday Review."

And?

Oh shut up and stop your fretting, we got Ava and C.I. with their TV review!

Rebecca's on vacation so we put this together without her and we miss you Rebecca. Get some rest and have a great vacation.

We thank Dallas, always, for hunting down links. We thank Maria for allowing us to repost her Democracy Now! break down of the news in the past week -- in English and in Spanish so get the word out on that.

We thank Cedric for the interview. We thank Cedric, Kat, Mike and Betty for help with all pieces (except the TV review). We thank Cedric, Elaine and Kat for allowing us to reprint their work.

(C.I.'s a member in our minds, the thanks goes without saying.)

Hopefully there's something here to make you mad or make you laugh.

Till next week.

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava