A note to our readers

Hey --


Along with Dallas, the following helped with 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),
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.


What did we come up with:

Truest statement of the week -- Justin of Antiwar.com. Reading Ava and C.I.'s second article this edition, Dallas mentioned a column none of us had seen. We thought it was worth noting.

Truest statment of the week II -- So much so that we pulled from it for two truests.

Editorial: Responsible Withdrawal -- This is worked on by all the above. For four different articles. Dona, Jim, Ava and C.I. worked on editing this and adding some transitions.

TV: Piss Queens -- Ava and C.I. offered this as a bonus. The edition was awful and we had very little to show for it so they came up with this article (which they were planning on doing for Hilda's Mix this Tuesday).

TV: The Homophobic Show -- This was what they planned to cover. The Beautiful Life was the first show cancelled of the fall season.

Whatever happened to the facts? -- Jess asked if we were aware how often we were pointing out errors in various articles this edition? No. Jess went through them and pulled all the errors out and the commentary and ended up with this which Ava and C.I. wrote a bit more to in order to make it flow. What Jess was pulling from was written by all.

Roundtable -- The roundtable where we explain how awful the edition has been. We also tackled LGBT issues, American Dad and other topics.

Iraq -- Some highlights on Iraq.

Simon Assaf's 'Violence continues in Iraq' -- Great Britain's Socialist Worker repost.

Over 1,164 US troops may have been exposed to Sodi... -- Democratic Policy Committee press release on chemical exposure.

Highlights -- Mike, Elaine, Betty, Kat, Ruth, Marcia, Stan, Ann, Wally, Cedric and Rebecca wrote this and picked all the highlights, we thank them for it.

And we thank everyone including Dallas for their help. Currently, we've got no illustrations with these articles. That may be the way it stays. Or not. We're going to bed, we're exhausted. (It's 11:36 a.m. PST and we've been up all night.) See you next week.

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