A note to our readers

Hey --

A very late Sunday.

Along with Dallas and Betty's kids, here's who helped:

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,
Ann who's filling in for Ruth at Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ
and Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends.


We thank them all. What did we come up with?


Truest statement of the week -- We went with Riverdaught.

Editorial: The deafening silence -- As Iraq's LGBT community continues to be targeted for persecution, the media attention seems to decrease, not increase.


TV: He never looked so old -- Ava and C.I. take on Letterman.

Barry O, 21st Century Anita Bryant -- This article contains an illustration. Betty's oldest son said of homophobic Barack, "He's scared of the wienie." He said that in front of his oldest sister who insisted hot dogs were not scary. That led to the illustration and we thank them for it.

The Political Closet -- We had decided not to write this article weeks ago. And then Besty Reed wanted to play dumb at the expense of reality.

Politically driven assassinations -- This article came about because reader Leon e-mailed with an Iraq topic he hadn't seen covered. (thirdestatesundayreview@yahoo.com is the address.) So feel free to drop a line on a topic. Thank you to Leon. Thank you also to Betty's kid who did the illustration which is of Anne Frank (and Betty's daughter said no to a brown jacket. That was the big fight among the three of them. The boys said her jacket in the photos was brown. Betty's daughters said those were old photos and she'd want an orange or purple coat today -- note who won that point).

Congressional snapshot (Ava, C.I., Kat and Wally) -- As the never ending writing edition produced one failure that couldn't be saved after another -- and as Ava and C.I. pointed out that this was supposed to be our summer fiction edition . . . . Our summer fiction edition? Yeah. But we were convinced that there was too much news needing coverage. A point that Ava reminded us of repeatedly when we claimed we had nothing to cover. So Ava, C.I., Kat and Wally did this piece on things they observed in Congress last week.

Jeremiah was a bull. . . -- We're sure the usual defenders of hate speech will step forward to explain how there's nothing to see here, move on.

Kimberly Wilder on Redistricting -- Our PSA.

Highlights -- Mike, Elaine, Cedric, Wally, Stan, Marcia, Rebecca, Betty and Kat worked on this and we thank them.

And that's the edition. See you next weekend.

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