A note to our readers

Hey --

Another Sunday. And yes we are so late.

Thank you to all who worked 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 Dallas who hunted down links and was a soundboard and much more. And here's what we came up with:

• Truest statement of the week
  

Matthis Chiroux got the truest.

• Truest statement of the week II

Justin Raimondo also had a truest.

• Editorial: Biggest action of last week

This is the piece we all worked on that we're proudest of including the artwork. The artwork is primarily Kat, Betty's kids, Wally, Dallas, Isaiah and Rebecca. The editorial is all of us and it's the one thing that we knew we had this week even when other things fell apart.

• TV: The Comedy Killers

We also knew we had Ava and C.I. and we knew they were doing TV when phone messages piled up on Friday about the insane interview that All Things Considered aired. It offended a lot of people, a lot. Ava and C.I. break down the basics on comedy again. Ava, C.I., Jess and Betty are at the Emmys. The rest of us have been working on editing. (Ava and C.I. completed this at 5:00 a.m. PST. We altered nothing although we did type it up and add links.)

• Roundtable

The hope was that a roundtable could help and I (Jim) think it did. We were low on time and worried so we just jumped in. It ended up being all about Iraq which is a good thing and happened via luck.

• Biggest drag on the left

We had nothing. Literally nothing. We knew we had the editorial but otherwise? Ava and C.I. were finishing up their TV piece and we knew we had that. We were talking about a roundtable to round things out and then this idea was suggest by Jess and Marcia. Everyone worked on this.

• Is a revolutionary paper needed?

Reprint from Great Britain's Socialist Worker.

• Highlights

And Mike and the gang wrote this and we thank them for it.

Next week we hope to have a more complete edition. This week things didn't work out that way for a number of reasons including Ava and C.I. having a hard release time that couldn't be altered.



Peace.

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