Hey --
Another Sunday. Along with Dallas, the following worked on 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. And we thank Betty's kids and Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts for illustrations. Let's turn to what we got.
Truest statement of the week -- Drew had truest and the illustration is by Betty's daughter and Kat.
Editorial: In essence, we are terrorists -- Thursday's court room events should have been huge news.
TV: The Goode Family's Bad Misfortune -- Somewhere along the way this edition, things started coming together for a "worst this" and "worst that" type theme. We actually have three we're either holding or ditching. They may pop up next week. But Ava and C.I. really captured it in this amazing piece. I (Jim) did the title and they say that's when I started saying it was a theme of noting the worst things. (They like The Goode Family. The worst here is that it's on ABC which will most likely not stand by the show.)
Worst Dolls -- Ty and Betty's kids saw this at a store (they disagree which one) and Jess had a camera and took the photo right there on the aisle. (Jess says the store was Target.)
Reaction to the denial of marriage equality -- This is a transcript and again we're noting Drew and FSRN.
Roundtable -- This is Ann, Betty, Elaine, C.I. and myself. Thanks to Ava for taking the notes. Thanks to Betty's kids for the new roundtable illustration. The first man on the left is not Betty's oldest son and looks nothing like him. But Betty's daughter was convinced he'd put himself into the drawing. To appease her, her brothers put her in (she's the little girl). We love the illustration.
Winter Soldier Southwest -- We thank three on this. We thank C.I. for the transcripts. We thank Kat and Isaiah for the illustrations.
Worst Web Site ABC.go.com (Ava and C.I.) -- When I had the worst theme, I immediately asked what we could do and Ty said, "Well let's talk about the e-mails to Ava and C.I." He then dumped three subjects on them and they chose this one: Our readers complaining about ABC online.
Worst scene stealer of the 20th century -- Dona thinks it's tacky for Ann Sheridan to be wearing that hat and that outfit without a bra when her nipples are clearly visible and Ann's there right before a party starts and that's also her party outfit. Maybe without the hat, Dona says, and scarf it wouldn't be so bad. But when we were thinking of worst, Dona said, "Ann Sheridan" and all of us knew what she meant because the first time we watched The Man Who Came To Dinner there was an uncomfortable silence during this scene until someone asked, "Is anybody else noticing the woman's nipples?"
The digital switch -- We are reading the e-mails and we did test out converters as a result. Our e-mail address is thirdestatesundayreview@yahoo.com.
Adam Kokesh -- Kokesh may run for Congress, he's exploring it right now. That's a video he's uring people to circulate. We did. You should too.
Racist in the White House -- Robert Gibbs. There, we said it.
Flipper commits suicide -- Looking for a book to read this summer? We have a suggestion.
Highlights -- Mike, Elaine, Kat, Rebecca, Betty, Stan, Cedric, Wally and Marcia wrote this. We thank them. They also list Ruth so we'll assume Ruth helped in spirit. (Ruth's in Japan for the next few weeks, on vacation.)
And that's what we've got, we'll see you next week. The July 4th weekend? Ava and C.I. have already started mapping that out and they'll steer that edition. June? We'll do our annual summer read edition. There's a lot coming up.
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.