A note to our readers

Hey --
Sunday, Sunday.

Another week. 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),
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen
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 Betty's kids who did the illustration of Cindy Sheehan. We thank all of them.

What did we come up with?

• Truest statement of the week

Cindy Sheehan had this week's truest.

• Truest statement of the week II

And Cindy Sheehan had this week's truest. Seriously, we almost had a third truest from Cindy but decided two in one week was enough to get her the record. (She's the only person to ever get both truests in the same week.)

• Editorial: End Operation Happy Talk

I (Jim) really wanted this to be more. (C.I. just started singing Joni Mitchell, "It could have been more, than the name on the door . . .") But we did the editorial last and we were exhausted. Although, honestly, most of us didn't work that hard except for Ava and C.I. They worked like crazy, as you'll see. But we are all together and that's rare so we snacked, we joked, we had fun.

• TV: They didn't name it Lucky Town

My only real accomplishment this edition is coming up with the title to Ava and C.I.'s TV article. "Lucky Town," by the way, is the name of a Bruce Springsteen song that popped into my head when I was trying to think of a title.

• Roundtable

This was a fun roundtable and we pulled the funny part. At the request of the funsters. It's still a strong roundtable covering a number of topics.

• Cindy's in DC, Where are we? (Ava and C.I.)

Ava and C.I. Covering Cindy's protests and much more. This really is a strong piece and they weren't really finished but Dona called time on the edition after the editorial so they said "It is what it is" and forwarded it on to me.

• Barry's Geriatric 'Progs'

We all worked on this piece. I think it's needed.

• Dear Jane - an open letter (Ava and C.I.)

Again, Ava and C.I. They didn't want Jane addressed in the above and promised to address her solo. Thanks to Isaiah for letting us use his drawing of Jane Fonda.

• Bomb threat outside the White House?

A repost.

• Highlights

We thank the usual suspects for doing this.

And that's what we've got. Hope you found something to make you laugh, think or piss you off. That's it. Dona says it's time to eat and go to bed.



Peace.

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