A note to our readers

Hey --

A late Sunday. Starting with everyone who helped including Dallas who located links and acted as a sounding board as well as:

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 we came up with the following:

Truest statement of the week -- John Pilger, a truth teller who never stops.

Truest statement of the week II -- Chris Hedges who just might emerge as the American John Pilger.


Editorial: Barack backs off Iraq, the Cult showers him with love -- This begins the problems with this week's edition. For a change, no writing problems. We were done with the text early on. We only wrote one article that didn't make it online. We should have been done by 7:45 EST. And then there's Flickr. After the second hour began of waiting for the images to load, we made the decision to go to bed. Most of the images downloaded while we slept. Two didn't and we had to upload them when we got up. So Barack keeps war mongering and he still gets his valentines. How very.

TV: Three hours worth watching -- Ava and C.I. examined NBC's Monday night and explain what's working, what isn't and why you should be tuning in.

NYT goes tabloid -- There's journalism and there's tabloid. New York Times can't seem to stifle its desire to top to The New York Post on the latter.

US war resisters Andre Shepherd and Cliff Cornell -- War resistance in the US and Germany.

What Iraqi elections taught the world -- Our piece on the Iraqi elections and, please remember, results will not be final for weeks.

Music roundtable -- A musical roundtable.

Michael Phelps Adult Swim -- If Michael Phelps were a woman, he'd be in the news for three months based on just this one incident.

And one little piggie went wah-wah all the way home -- Tom Daschle withdrew his name from consideration as Health and Human Secretary.

Highlights -- Mike, Elaine, Rebecca, Betty, Ruth, Cedric, Marcia, Kat, Stan and Wally wrote this and selected all highlights. We thank them.

And that's the edition. Sorry for the delay but we'd already been up all night and didn't see the point in waiting and waiting for illustrations to load to Flickr. See you next week.


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