A note to our readers

Hey --

Another Sunday. We're actually pretty 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.

What did we come up with?

• Truest statement of the week

We had a Bradley Manning feature that just didn't work. So we chose to highlight Daniel Ellsberg from a Bradley Manning fundraiser.

• Truest statement of the week II

Bob Somerby on the price whores go for.

• Editorial: The war continues while the coverage stops

There is an Iraq War going on. And it is so amazing that the left periodicals that wanted it to be front and center -- especially at election time -- are now silent as the November mid-terms loom. What changed? Control of the White House. The wars continue.

• TV: The View's not pretty

This was a very rough writing edition. So bad that when our piece on the comic under fatwa didn't work out we did seriously discuss a best of edition. Where we'd just reprint past stuff with an intro explaining why we liked it. Ava and C.I. were ready to go to sleep so they were fine with it but they noted their piece was done. I read this outloud to everyone, this amazing article by Ava and C.I., and the response was "We've got to do an edition." So we did. Pulled it off barely.

• Roundtable

A quick roundtable and thank you to Betty who gave it a depth it might have otherwise lacked.

• State of the economy

Trina and C.I. and Jess pushed for a feature on the economy. It was a smart decision.

• Reject Dino Patti Djalal

ETAN.

• Congress member freaks out in open session!

To pad out the edition so we could go to sleep, I suggest a reprint of C.I.'s Congressional reporting from last week.

• Highlights

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

And that's what we ended up with. If you don't love it, it's not you. After everything fell apart, this was basically put together in three hours of rushing. (And, again, only because Ava and C.I. had written their TV article that gave us all a second wind.) Our e-mail address is thirdestatesundayreview@yahoo.com.
Peace.

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