A note to our readers

Hey --
One more Sunday. We're in DC and we're exhausted.

We thank everyone who helped on this edition. That would include Dallas and the following:


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
Trina of Trina's Kitchen,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends.


Thank you. Now let's move to content.

Truest statement of the week -- Did we miss it or was this really all that was worth noting? Maybe there was some amazing piece of writing we blanked on but Michael Wolff was our first choice and when we then tried to come up with other choices -- even noting that we generally do two truests a week, we couldn't. Maybe we were that tired. Or maybe that's just the kind of a week last week was.

Editorial: Barack's too immature to apologize -- Our editorial and it probably seemed obvious for us to choose a topic having to do with Iraq. Any other week, we would have. But we are very aware of how the disabled community is rendered invisible and silent by the media. We're also aware that including it elsewhere would make it an 'additional' topic. It is the main topic. It is a real issue and that's why it's our editorial.

TV: The War Goes Ignored -- The Iraq War? Ava and C.I. cover it here. At length. First, a big thank you to Ava and C.I. We have 13 features this week and they worked on 12, 3 of which they wrote by themselves. We thank them for that. I may go into that more in a bit. But this is the big Iraq piece and we knew we could farm it out to (push it off on) them. They handled it beautifully.

Roundtable -- All worked on the roundtable and Betty's kids and Kat (that's pretty much all) did the illustration. We thank them for the illustration. We had planned to include more topics but, in the end, stuck with Iraq.


The Katrina goes to . . . -- This is Ava and C.I.'s second feature. They wrote this. They did not want to do three TV commentaries. But Kim Gandy made an idiot of herself on TV. So they figured they could cover it as a Katrina. We think this will be enjoyed by so many readers who long ago had it with Kim Gandy.

Stevie Nicks, rocking it her way -- Kat could have written about this topic at her site. Instead she brought it over to Third hoping that since it was a digital single, we could do a short article on it. We thank her for the topic and we thank her and everyone else for helping on this.

Stand up -- Prior to this, you have two Iraq features. Here's a third. This is about Kristoffer Walker.

How to raise two ungrateful brats -- Did we want to do this or not? Ava and C.I.'s were the ones who caught it because they had to watch Barack's appearence in full. They showed it to the rest of us. We all agreed it wasn't a story we believe (consider the source) but it was an appalling story and we'll call it out.

TV: Explaining Moyers -- This could have gone up higher on the list but Ava and C.I. begged for it to be lower. They wrote this and said there's probably a sameness about all three of their pieces. (There's not. They're all great articles.) Betty asked that we noted this was her favorite of the three. We'll also note that Ava and C.I. helped out by coming back here and starting work Saturday night while the rest of us were still having fun. They agreed to knock out three articles so we could be done at a semi-decent hour. We thank them for that.


Who's that hiding in the hangers? -- A section that was not working in Ava and C.I.'s commentary got pulled (by them) and was going to be discarded. We liked the topic so we (all) wrote this.

The dog (still not picked out) ate his homework -- Dona's idea for a short feature. And sad but true.


Highlights -- Mike, Elaine, Marcia, Stan, Cedric, Wally, Ruth, Rebecca, Kat and Betty wrote this and picked out all highlights unless otherwise noted.

And that's it. We'll see you next week. If we're not still sleeping.


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