A Note to Our Readers

Hey --

Another Sunday and we actually got some stuff posted early (as early as 7:00 a.m. EST). Here's who worked on this edition:



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

As always, we thank Dallas for his help -- links, soundboard and he actually comments in the roundtable. We also thank Billie and Isaiah for participating in the roundtable. [Click here for Isaiah's latest.]

Here's what we've got:

Truest statement of the week -- Elaine. We were ready for two "truest" because Elaine generally avoids attention. She asks that no more than one post by her ever be highlighted and ideally she'd prefer none were. Due to the time factor, she agreed (to our surprise) without any arguing. (She was tired and stated, "I just want to go to bed.")

Editorial: Buying the illegal war -- The dying keeps on coming and the Democrats in Congress keep doing nothing.

TV: Satan tires a sitcom -- I (Jim) like this title. Of course, I'm the one who came up with the headline. Ava and C.I. had actually planned to comment on something else. We didn't ask them to grab this but Ty did tell them that over 60 e-mails came in this week from readers who 'just knew' this was what Ava and C.I. would be addressing. Figuring that this would continue until the show was reviewed, they decided to get it out of the way and be done with it. You will laugh.
They note that they are not calling for the cancellation of the show or the firing of Patti Heaton. "When you have the shot at a mortal enemy making a fool of herself on broadcast airwaves, week after week, showing the country just how bad she is, you want that sucker to last forever so you can continue laughing." No more guessing what they're going to focus on. They really wanted to write about Medium but realized that when your arch nemesis co-stars in a train wreck, everyone expects you to comment immediately. They grasp the expectation noting, "We hated Patti when she was a no talent and, fortunately for us, all these years later, she still is."
And yes, my title is "tires" not "tries." Satan already "tried" a sitcom -- Who The Hell Loves Raymond?

Roundtable -- Thank you to Isaiah, Billie and, yes, Dallas for speaking during this roundtable. We know it was late and we are very thankful to them. Billie especially made a point to sound out community members in the DFW area (and surrounding areas) because we'd asked her on Tuesday if she'd mind participating in a roundtable here.

Thank you Lizette Jenness Olmos and all the rest -- Somewhere along the way, Ty began referring to this as the F.U. edition. By the time we got to this feature, we were agreed. If Liz doesn't enjoy being named, oh well. Keep your promises. And no quote ever came in. There's actually a bit more to the story than what we shared. We're holding that in case Liz decides to play dumb like Charlie Jackson. And, FYI, we really did intend, the week before last, to praise Univision. Along with getting quotes, we poured over surveys and sampling data.

The peace movement has never been all White, all straight, all male or any other stereotype --
Now why in the world would you e-mail a site to get something highlighted if the blogger (Rebecca) knew you were involved (intentionally or not) with a forwarding of her e-mail? One of the many strange questions.

CounterSpin: radio comedy with plenty of laughs -- We think this will be a running feature for a couple of weeks. Why only a couple? Having refused to correct the record last Friday, we could see ourselves being stuck with this as a weekly feature until we shut down the site. But we will return it a few more times.

Why we'd give Congress' SCHIPs proposals a veto -- Do you support a flat tax? Do you support other people determining your choices? Do you support targeting the poor? No? Then think about what SCHIP's being pushed through Congress on the backs of.

Things to do, things to watch -- Your weekly schedule.

Dona's Thanks -- Dona did thank every longterm member (and/or community member) who wrote in to express concern over her health. She also wanted a short feature and Mike had been suggesting all last week that she should write something like this. She took him up on it.

Correction & Update -- We made an error. Our apologies. (We note the error in the roundtable as well). Thanks to ____ for e-mailing to correct us.

Highlights -- Mike, Kat, Betty, Wally, Cedric, Elaine and Rebecca wrote this and selected the highlights unless they note otherwise. We thank them for that.

Short note. Mike will cover it in full tomorrow. And do a great job. We'll see you next week.
We're getting some sleep. (Actually, we're going to get something to eat, watch a DVD and crash in the middle of it.) Woah! C.I. just pointed out that even though it's in the roundtable it would probably be a good idea to thank Trina (Trina's Kitchen) for help with the book discussion the week before, Vic for the scan of the book jacket the week before and Rebecca's mother-in-law for being among the people who suggested a KvH feature the week before.


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