A Note to Our Readers

Hey --
Sunday afternoon (one minute after) and we're finally in the home stretch.

Highlights? We have the following and we thank all for their permission to allow us to repost:

NYT analysis on the coverage out of Ireland
Ruth's Public Radio Report
Blog Spotlight: Cedric noting Law and Disorder
Blog Spotlight: Mike discussing Law and Disorder
Blog Spotlight: Kat spotlighting Guns and Butter
Humor Spotlight: Betty tells you that "Thomas Friedman is the Meanest Generation"
C.I.'s "NARAL advocates the rest cure"
Blog Spotlight: Elaine highlighting Pacifica and Jane Fonda
Blog Spotlight: Using a cell phone, Cedric's got some tips for you
Blog Spotlight: Rebecca getting the word out on Pacifica
Humor Spotlight: Wally on Bully Boy's "tapping"

In addition, we thank Dallas for his help (links) and we thank Ruth for her participation in the roundtable. We thank everyone who worked on this edition in addition to Ruth and Dallas:


The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and me. Jim;
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;
and Wally of The Daily Jot

New content?

"Editorial: Yesterday's protest and the future protests" our thoughts on the protest yesterday (which we were happy to participate in) and where we all needed to be headed. (All includes us.)

"TV Review: Without a Point" written by Ava and C.I. all other features were written as group efforts. They hate it. (They always do.) We disagree. We laughed out loud throughout. We think you will too. (This is a show that I, Jim, have actually seen. I think they captured it perfectly.)

"Music Roundtable" our longest roundtable ever. That's not what delayed the edition though. It was a pleasure, and, again, thanks to Ruth for participating.

"Musings on KPFA's Living Room" continuing to get the word out. This time on a KPFA program entitled Living Room and hosted by Kris Welch.

"Sunday Times at a glance" Dona asked for short pieces. Everyone goes into panic mode. One thing that happened was that we ended up with this overview of the Sunday Times. We think it's one readers will enjoy. A look at the arts, opinion, book and magazine sections.

"Warm welcomes for Bully Boy and Condi" another short piece. (The roundtable is huge.)

"Iraq: Five snapshots show a deadly week" cribbing from C.I. to put the war on the front burner.

"10 most played CDs this week" short piece, just a list of our ten most listened to CD this week.

"Pacifica programming today" heads up, get the word out.

We failed to remember that we were noting a book until after 7:00 a.m. C.I.'s exact words were, "Oh, f__ing sh*t! We forgot the book!" We did and at seven a.m., none of us gave a damn. We'll pick it up next week.

That's what we've got. Hopefully there's something in it to enrage you or make you laugh, make you think or make you scream. Apathy's not what we're going for.

See you next week.

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

P.S. Ty is on vacation from the e-mails again this week. Secondly, Jess tried to fix a piece last week. A link wiped out a line from the lyric/poem. We'll take a look at it next weekend and try to fix it. This week, we had the same problem in the roundtable (repeatedly) with a link to a MP3. Dona adds typos are here for those who get off on them. Seriously, we're dead tired, we were protesting yesterday, we've been up all night working on this edition. It's now past noon so you're looking at over thirty hours awake. If you feel the need to write about a typo, write yourself.