A note to our readers

Hey --
Another Sunday. Later than we'd like so this will be again be a short note.

First, thanks for all who helped this edition which includes Dallas and:

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 now what we came up with:

• Truest statement of the week
• Truest statement of the week II
• Truest statment of the week III

When there are so many strong statements worth noting, we have to go with three Truests. We had 15 'final' nominees. A record. And it was decided we'd do three for the week -- we've done that only once before. We easily could have offered nine 'truests of the weeks.'

• Editorial: Look who's back

We have an illustration. We just don't have the strength to upload it to Flickr.

• TV: Saboteurs

Ava and C.I.'s masterpiece. This is amazing. I (Jim) can't sing the praises enough for this one. "Leave us alone," Ava warned me repeatedly Saturday when they got back from the East Coast and I kept trying to offer suggestions for this week's piece. I left them alone. They came up with a great one. And before any of you Brian Edwards-Teacup types e-mail, "Wilful" is how it is spelled in the Hitchock film. When they're quoting that definition onscreen, Ava and C.I. spell it that way. When they're using the term themselves, they use "willful." Don't e-mail to say, "They've mispelled 'willful.' They haven't. They're quoting from the film."

• Books: The Obama Syndrome

Another book discussion and what we anticipate will be our final one for the year. We'll scan in the cover and upload it to Flickr and then here by midnight our time tonight (PST).

• The Black Roundtable

Betty, Ty, Cedric, Ann, Stan, Isaiah and Marcia do another Black roundtable. Ty says to again thank Ava and C.I for typing this up from the recording.

• Ty's Corner

Ty did a Ty's Corner. Ava and C.I. were talking about fear -- they worked that topic into their TV article -- and riffing on it throughout Saturday giving Ty the push to write about this event.

• Roundtable

I know I'll be slaughtered for this but we really didn't have any more time and I had to call off the roundtable when I did. Yes, that does mean that any issue you raised for Ava and C.I. got shelved. Sorry. We had no more time.

• The week where two women were repeatedly attacked

We spent about 45 minutes trying to write a piece about this topic. It did not work. Ann finally said we should just grab each day's snapshot. That was a wonderful idea. Thank you, Ann, for seeing the obvious when we couldn't.

• Highlights

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

And that is what we ended up with.


Peace.

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