A note to our readers

Hey --

Another Sunday and 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.

And what did we come up with?

• Truest statement of the week

Elaine, thank you. We had no truest for the week and were planning on not doing one despite Dona noting it was our most popular short feature. Then Elaine suggested this one and we all quickly agreed.

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• Editorial: The Never Ending Gulf Disaster

We made the Gulf the editorial again. We hadn't planned on that and had another topic planned (one that's not even covered this edition) but then we got the input. For example, Tuesday, pretty much the entire community wrote about the Gulf Disaster and did so because certain wackjobs were running from the story in order to scratch their I-Hate-Israel itch. You know 'em. You know who we mean.

• TV: Grime and Whora Flanders

Ava and C.I. caught this on public access. Ava, "We kept saying we'd watch just a few more seconds. Then we'd get even further appalled. She truly has become a train wreck."

• NPR's Blow Up Doll (Ava, C.I. and Ann)

Ann, Ava and C.I. teamed up to take on a fool who wastes everyone's time.

• Roundtable

"Not a roundtable," was C.I.'s response when I (Jim) suggested it. I suggested it mainly because we had a lot of people participating and most of the stuff they'd worked on wasn't going to make the edition. This did take forever. I'll leave it at that.

• Can we take the award back?

Ava and C.I. wrote this piece as well. And where the hell does the White House get off issuing an announcement of "Sir" Paul McCartney? Did we win our independence from the crown or not?

• On Air Turbulence

Short item. Only one that ended up usable.

• TV reflections

Ava and C.I.'s third feature (and they also wrote a piece with Ann). Last week, with so many of us off, Ava and C.I. were reading the e-mails here and this piece is largely in reply to the e-mails on the TV commentaries they write.

• The Frustrations
  

Our Iraq piece for this edition.

• On the hunger strikes . . .

A repost of C.I. on hunger strikes -- at Marcia's suggestion.

• Highlights

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

And that's what we've got. We'll see you next time.

Peace.

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