A note to our readers

Hey --
Another Sunday.

About the usual time for us and we're dragging. Dona's already complaining that we were supposed to be done two hours ago (and she'd planned to take a bubble bath but now . . .). We're never done at a reasonable time.

This edition. Along with Dallas, here's who suffered to turn 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.

And what did we come up with:

Truest statement of the week -- easily the choice, Debra Sweet.

Truest statement of the week II -- Paul Street's big competition here was with John Pilger. While both had strong observations, the fact was Street touched on nearly everything people e-mail about so we went with Street. There was another competitor but he dropped out when Betty (rightly) said, "He's calling Barack 'Black' and my Black ass ain't going along with calling anything that does that a 'truest'." (That nominee, by the way, appeared in WSWS last week.)

Editorial: It's about equality -- It's not about religion and someone needs to start fining Barack a quarter every time he tries to push that lie -- or make him return his law degree.

TV: No fun the house that Cosby built -- Katty van-van on TV last week. Ava and C.I. explain the laughs there and the lack of laughs in NBC's Thursday night line up.

The Homophobia of Barack Obama -- We need (and will) link from the editorial to this piece. This was our longest piece in terms of time. And we realized we need it due to the editorial. We needed something that outlined what went down for those who forgot or never knew.

Soon to be in the White House -- We planned to do a photo essay last week but the photos wouldn't upload to Flickr. Here's a photo essay. Enjoy.

Marcelo murdered by thugs, ignored by 'leaders' -- A hate crime resulted in Marcelo being killed. It should be big news. So where is Panhandle Media?

Can you propagandize with all the colors of the Red?... -- The text is by Jess, Dona, Ty, Betty, Cedric and me (Jim). We wrote this as part of a short feature with another item. It wasn't working. Dona got the idea to put it together with something C.I., Kat, Ava, Wally, Marcia and Mike wrote two weeks ago for a feature that only ended up in the print edition. So they're the ones who came up with the parody lyrics for "Colors of the Wind."

SNL? (Ava and C.I.) -- Ava and C.I. wrote this in less time then it will take you to read it. We had four pieces that couldn't go online. Two because C.I. said they weren't factually sound and needed fact checking if they were going up. ("Conventional wisdom posing as fact" was the wording.) Two didn't really seem as great as we thought. One lost everything in intense editing and the other was probably never that good. So we asked Ava and C.I. to write something quickly and they talked to Ty about an e-mail he'd mentioned. It allowed them to cover SNL (which I'd asked them to do in the TV review but they said there was no room for).

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

And that's it, we're finally done.


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