A note to our readers

Hey --

Sunday. Sunday.

What did we get? Let's start with who helped. Dallas and the following worked on this edition:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's 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),
Trina of Trina's Kitchen,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.

We thank them all. We (Jess, Ava and C.I.) tried to get people to take the weekend off. Jim, Don and Ty gladly did. Cedric and Ann worked on highlights and otherwise took the weekend off.

Truest statement of the week -- Cindy got truest for the fourth week in a row.

Truest statement of the week II -- This is John V. Walsh's second truest in 2009. He has gotten truest in years past.

Editorial: Accountability -- Betty's kids did the illustration. We promised them we'd use it in something and pretty much forced the editorial to utilize their art work.

TV: Ugly wallpaper -- Glee. Not so much. And not so much to drool over. If we (Ava and C.I.) wanted to be really cruel, we could have listed almost thirty closet cases who swear this show is just like their lives. Did we mention that the closet cases never went all the way? Yeah, this pathetic show is a lot like their lives.


War Criminal sentenced to life with no parole -- Steven D. Green. He was sentenced Friday. We have regularly and repeatedly covered Abeer at Third. It would be great if this were the final story; however, his attorneys are planning an appeal.

Iraq -- We were a bit more in depth than usual on this feature. Mainly at the behest of Mike who pointed out how little TV attention Iraq received last week.

Roundtable -- And hold on. If you read this when it went up, you had an extra. We just pulled Raymond's question and the responses. Why? At Rebecca's request. She'll explain this week at her website. That was supposed to have been pulled before it went up but we forgot in our rush to be done with the edition. Betty's kids did the illustration.

From the CrackPot 'mind' of Jerry Merryitt -- Betty's kids did the illustration for this feature as well. It's a parody of a sick mind or 'mind.' We think this turned out very well.

US imprisons reporter -- A short feature. If we'd had more time, we would have noted community posts on this topic from last week.

Idiot of the week -- We weren't planning this one. At the last minute, Stan asked, "Did they ever fix the headline at The Chicago Tribune?" Just as we were about to start typing and say goodnight to everyone participating (good morning but when you've had no sleep, it's goodnight), we checked and, no, they hadn't.

Highlights -- Cedric and Ann worked on this piece with Mike, Elaine, Marcia, Stan, Ruth, Kat, Betty and Rebecca. We thank them all.

And that's what you go got.

October 23rd -- to answer the most asked question in the e-mails -- Carly Simon releases her latest album, Never Been Gone. We will be doing a Carly roundtable and plan to do it the Sunday before the 23rd.

Our e-mail address is thirdestatesundayreview@yahoo.com. Due to Ty, Dona and Jim being off, Ava and C.I. hit the e-mails Saturday and replied to all who wrote, if only for a brief sentence. If you didn't get a reply, you went into the spam folder or your e-mail didn't make it through.

-- Jess, Ava and C.I.