A note to our readers

Hey --

Along with Dallas, the following helped 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),
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,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.

For us, this is pretty quick. We're done around 11:00 a.m. EST and since we're PST, it's around 9:00 a.m. Yea us! And thanks to C.I. for the hour on Saturday talking to Dona and myself (Jim) about this edition and next week's which really allowed us to stay focused and complete this edition in a semi-timely manner.

• Truest statement of the week
  

This is Trina and we all loved her observation so, against her objections, she got a truest.

• Truest statement of the week II

Russ Baker's website is one we're not sure we've noted in any form. He's pro-Barack which either demonstrates he's nutty or has a perverse sense of humor. But if you can get past that, there's much to be found there.

• Editorial: Where's the leadership?

Elaine and C.I. proposed this topic for two weeks straight. Week three they get their wish. Amazingly, I didn't think it would work as an editorial. I thought it was an article. But I was wrong and I'm glad to be. Thank you to Isaiah for allowing us to use his illustration.

• TV: Killing Off The First Wife

Ava and C.I. went with a historical piece this week. If you didn't get the message, FlashFoward resulted in angry calls from friends with that show so they weren't planning to do another review until all the fall schedules were announced. This was a piece they've been writing for years now. I'm not joking. If you go through the archives, you'll find that the CBS observations are ones they've made. The attempt to kill off The New Adventures of Old Christine? They were noting that two years ago when CBS was moving the show to Wednesdays. This is a great piece that pulls together various strands.

• Roundtable

"Do it early, if you do it." C.I.'s advice to Dona and I when we both urged another roundtable. Roundtables take great amounts of time -- this one did.

• Iraq

Our Iraq feature.

• Shame of the week: US Congress

I honestly thought this was an editorial piece. Due to it being written so late in the process, it barely made a short article.

• Scott Brown's so pretty

When a witness from the VA is talking about cutting veterans benefits maybe a US senator should shut his mouth listen? Instead, Scott Brown decided to interrupt and change the subject.

• Highlights

Mike, Elaine, Betty, Kat, Ann, Marcia, Wally, Ruth, Cedric and Rebecca wrote this and we thank them for it.

And that's what we came up with.

Peace.

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