A Note to Our Readers

Another Sunday. Another edition.

We almost called it quits and decided to postpone the note like last time; however, C.I.'s schedule is tight today and Jess said he wanted to get bed before noon. So we're doing this note while C.I.'s covering The New York Times over at The Common Ills.

Bo wrote that he hoped we didn't wimp out after last week's F.U. edition and start "coming off all lollypops and rainbows and huggies." Huggies? Bo, we were toilet trained years ago!

But no, we don't think we did. We didn't wake up this week feeling, "Whew! Got it out of my system. Now I can be sunshine." We're still ticked off.

Possibly less so than last weekend because this edition went much more smoothly. (We even got more than highlights up before seven a.m.)

"Editorial: No spine on no spying" fits with the we're tired of the nonsense 'tude of last week.

Ava and C.I. do the TV review, "TV Review: Close To Home (and floating in the toilet)." You may think, "Geez, everyone knows that Ava and C.I. do the TV review!" Not true. I, Jim, answered an e-mail this morning (no, hell didn't freeze over, it just felt like it) from a reporter wanting to talk to us about a TV review. I explained that "us" was Ava and C.I. They write the TV reviews. I think we've now hit the year mark where they took over those things completely. (Check with them? They don't read their reviews. When they're done, they're done. We can quote lines from them, as Elaine's pointed out, and, if they don't realize its their writing, they'll laugh at how funny it is. Tell them it's from something they wrote and they either dimiss it or they rush to give credit to the other.) We think this one will be a crowd pleaser for our longtime readers. Close To Home is a Bruckheimer show. Need we say more?

You asked for it, you demanded it, and there was a book we didn't want to keep holding as we tried to figure out how to fix (lessen the time involved) the book discussion: "1 Book, 10 Minutes (Danny Schechter, The Death of Media)" -- an important book, check it out.

"Psst, here come the gatekeepers" deals with a number of issues. (All gatekeeping.) "Musings on the service economy" is part of our continued effort to help steer you towards listening to Laura Flanders. We almost called it "Thoughts" but Ty said, "Come on guys, these aren't thoughts, they're musings."

And we've got spotlights:

Senadores republicanos bloquean investigacion sobre espionaje de la NSA
Humor Spotlight: Wally's "This Just In! Things Go Wack When Cheney Plays Jacks!"
Blog Spotlight: Rebecca on music and prisoners
"And the war drags on . . ." (The Common Ills)
Ruth's Public Radio Report
Blog Spotlight: Mike bringing you up to speed
American Brushetta in Trina's Kitchen
Blog Spotlight: Cedric telling the simple truth
Blog Spotlight: Kat on where she stands (with us, eat your heart out war lovers)
Blog Spotlight: Elaine on Kevin and Monica Benderman

We thank everyone for allowing us to repost. By the way, there are problems with the sidebar links that we're trying to fix on our end. If we can't or until we can, consider this your table of contents and use the links above for that purpose.

All new content except the TV review were done by the following:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and Jim;
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude;
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man;
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review;
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills);
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix;
Mike of Mikey Likes It!;
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz;
and Wally of The Daily Jot.

We'll see you next week. Today? Check out Isaiah's latest The World Today Just Nuts. It's not up yet but C.I. showed it to us and we suggest you prepare to laugh.


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