Hey --
Another Sunday and we've got another edition.
Thank you to Dallas and everyone else who helped out:
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,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
and Marcia SICKOFITRDLZ.
Here's what we've got:
Best statement of the week -- Hillary got a big laugh from the audience with this joke on ABC's This Week.
Editorial: The Unspeakable Barack Obama -- He's sinkable and he's sinking. Who will tell the people? Not Bill G whose head went soft and mushy when he went to The Nation.
TV: The Beauty & The Grump -- Bill Moyers angling for a nod from Ashton, who knew? Ava and C.I. return to what Moyers returned to Friday, his crime scene. Hard hitting and funny. My favorite line comes is the one that uses "locker room" -- I won't repeat it here in case anyone reads the note first.
Roundtable -- Illustrations by Betty's son. We think in the editing "I" got lost in one of Cedric's statements. We can't find it but we're pretty sure it got deleted. Our apologies.
Bully Boy's Endless Death Machine -- We rip-off C.I. (Jess' idea and C.I. agreed).
The Lies Of Life -- Will there be a part two? Maybe. We were mainly trying to have something completed because Ava and C.I. said, "If we do two pieces, we better not come back to find that everyone else partied while we were working." So we decided to go fictional.
Dear Betsy Reed -- Ava and C.I.'s second piece. Wonderful. We love it. Betsy poses as a 'feminist' and gets called out. She didn't really think she could get away with it, did she? She had to know she'd be called out. She's a lying loser who prevents women from being published in The Nation and now wants to pose as a 'feminist' in order to tear apart Hillary. I'll note that Ava and C.I. really were laughing at her lies. They find her ridiculous. She should be aware that this is them going after her with kids gloves. Next time it will not be so pretty. "Vag" and "vags" is from Juno which Rebecca made them watch late Friday night/Saturday morning. (They say check out Juno now that it's on DVD if you missed it at the movies.)
TV: The candidates quick take -- And we have a third piece. Ava and C.I. were begged, as we were editing, to write this. They hadn't planned to and didn't take notes. They call it a "quick take." "It is not a review, it is not a commentary," states Ava.
Campaigns -- Nader and Clinton. Again, we hope to have a Nader button illustration by next week. Hope.
Breaking Barack news -- While we were editing, Ava and C.I. pointed this out and we wrote it quickly. It's about the Meet The Press interview and we sold them on doing a third piece by stating, "You know come next Sunday, everyone's going to expect you to comment on the interviews otherwise." So to get it out of the way and not have anything to carry over to next weekend, they agreed.
Highlights -- Mike, Kat, Betty, Elaine, Rebecca, Marcia, Cedric, Ruth and Wally wrote this. We thank them for it.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.