A note to our readers

Hey --

Another Sunday.

First some house cleaning or taking garbage to the curb. A number of sites have asked us to link to various things in the past and we've been happy to. They've never linked back. A little irritating. But now that we know how backlinks work and know that not only was there not a link back but that we had to be deleted (community wide) to avoid showing up as having linked to the posts we were asked to link to, we're not interested in doing a damn thing for a number of people. If this applies to you, consider this your formal f**k off. And how bad is it? We told C.I. this was going on for awhile and C.I. (being more fair than the rest of us) would say, "Oh surely not." Oh surely yes.

This edition. Along with Dallas, here's who helped out this edition.


The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, and Ava,
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,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ
and Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends.

We thank them all. Stan is the newest community member to start a blog. We're glad he's started one. And the "linkback" Blogger/Blogspot option? The reason C.I. believes us now is because C.I. helped Stan set up his site and Stan wanted that option. So they both became experts quickly. And discovered that to prevent a link that was read*, you actually have to delete it by clicking on a garbage can. One guy in particular just lost a link from any community sites ever again. After Stan's blog went up, all other community sites added the link back feature, by the way.


So let's talk content. Here's what we've got.

Truest statement of the week -- We had eight strong nominees. (More than eight nominess, but eight strong ones.) We really feel this is the strongest and hope you agree.

Truest statement of the week II -- This was also a strong one and you should read the post its from if you haven't already.

Greens Gone Wild -- This is our editorial. If you want to be a political party, act like one. That does not include wall papering over what are supposed to be very real differences after an election. In fact, after an election is a good time for a political party to point out the differences. That way when the Dem or Republican elected disappoints, you can say, "We warned you during the campaign, we warned you after the election." Calling out Barack at a later date now leaves the Green Party looking scattered since they failed to call him out after the election. Besides, they keep pushing the meme that he's Black (he isn't) and that's amazing so if and when they criticize him, the question becomes, "Wait, Greens, you said what mattered was his race. Did his race change? No? Then why are you criticizing him?"

TV: The journalists deliver the belly laughs -- Ava and C.I. cover two entertainment programs and two public affairs programs. This accidentally went up before anything else. They were tired and hit "publis" and not "save now". Which allowed early readers to discover it. Gino says thank you for that gift and is among those who've already written to say it's wonderful and (Liza's words), "How's Jim going to screw up in his note this time?" Thanks, Liza. I'll move on.

Roundtable -- Our first roundtable with Stan. We were hoping for Trina joining us but that didn't work out. She is planning on participating during the holidays. We'll include her in a roundtable then. Ty's found one e-mail complaining about 'poor Alice Walker' and the way we treat her. The e-mailer writes, "Don't you know that her daughter has turned on her?" C.I. responds, "Yes, we do know that and we avoid bringing that into the discussion. We could have and some of Rebecca Walker's charges do fit in with the comments being made. That doesn't mean she's right or wrong, it just means we avoided the topic and you're the one raising it."

Barack revisions, hot off the presses! -- We couldhave put a really good photo with this. Why didn't we. Two hours ago we started uploading it to Flickr. It's still going. We have many uploads to Flickr still going on. Dona said, "Post it without it." And on two other things, she said, "Post them with what we do have." If she hadn't done that, you wouldn't be able to read this edition very, very early for us.

We're not buying it -- This was almost the editorial but time ran out. We made it a short piece instead.

Ty's Corner -- Where is Ty's Corner! When will Ty do another one! He does one here. It's brief but it's strong and on an important topic.

Rating the presidential campaign offices -- This is another one where we had better uploads planned but they're still uploading so we ran with what we had.

The 2008 presidential election is over -- Ditto this which was actually going to be a humor feature and include captions for photos. Those photos still load. Ay-yi-yi.

TV with honesty -- The Onion. It's scary because it's true.

Highlights -- Mike, Kat, Wally, Stan, Ruth, Marcia, Betty, Rebecca, Cedric and Elaine wrote this and we thank them for it.

That's it. We'll see you next week.



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