Patterico’s Pontifications is proud to host the 78th edition of the “Carnival of the Vanities,” a weekly roundup of submissions from across the blogosphere.
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am your host, Patterico. I am a frequent critic of the Los Angeles Dog Trainer (aka Los Angeles Times). I contribute to an exciting new group blog highlighting leftist bias in the print media: Oh, That Liberal Media. I am also an occasional contributor to California Republic, and a member of California’s confederation of conservative bloggers, the Bear Flag League. I hope you bookmark the site and visit often.
Without further ado, on to the Carnival:
Spectra reminds us that the state is not our friend, in a discussion of sin taxes and behavior modification.
Alan K. Henderson fisks the Interim Iraqi Constitution.
The Gleeful Extremist has an open letter to pro-choicers. The Extremist’s post is prompted by the recent story of a woman who is being prosecuted for murder after refusing a Cesarean section, necessary to save her baby’s life, for allegedly cosmetic reasons.
The Well-Timed Period has an entirely different take on the same case, arguing that the prosecution is an example of society’s refusal to allow women to make decisions for themselves.
Kevin at The Smallest Minority has these comments on a speech by Justice Scalia. Let’s hope that the L.A. Times doesn’t intimidate Justice Scalia (and others) into withdrawing entirely from public life, or we won’t have the benefit of insights like those pointed to by Kevin.
Andrew from Dodgeblogium details his band’s progress towards writing, producing and arranging their new album, and invites you to help name the band.
A few people have posts about John Kerry which are not too complimentary. For example, Sneakeasy’s Joint says that John Kerry’s brain is in disarray. The post has plenty of evidence that the war is going better than you’ve heard.
Useful Fools encourages readers to sign a petition asking Kerry to release his military medical records.
Another fellow Bear Flagger, Feste…a foolsblog, has some advice for John Kerry: if you’re upset about sending jobs overseas, you might have a little talk with your in-laws, the Heinz folks.
Rookie Bearflagger Jeff Doolittle says that the election this fall is the most important in decades. Jeff says: “There is one, single, defining issue facing us and if we vote wrong, we will pay the consequences . . .The issue is terrorism: who will deal with it correctly, and who will not.” Note who Jeff says that is.
Several people addressed the related issue of the Spanish elections. Dustin at eTalkinghead, another fellow Bear Flagger, says al Qaeda won in Spain.
Fellow Watcher’s Council member the SmarterCop agrees, and describes his post as arguing that “[t]he era of Don Quixote has long passed in the country of Spain, replaced by those who would cower to terrorism and raise the white flag to the enemies of freedom.”
On a lighter note, Spare Change hasn’t been falling for the spams promising discounted prescription drugs or private-parts enhancements, but he followed a spam link promising “language enhancement.” Is that your sentence or are you just glad to see me?
Zero Intelligence fights more school board inanity with a post about a middle school student who was expelled after turning in her bullies.
Snooze Button Dreams files a report regarding a group of super-sized protesters who stormed the McDonald’s Corporate Headquarters, furious over the company’s decision to discontinue its Super Size Value Meal program. The post quotes Ronald McDonald as acknowledging that “[t]he sheer weight of the opposition was daunting.”
Taken in Hand reports that she has allowed her husband to become the master of the house, and now he treats her like a queen. Anything I say about this will get me in trouble, so, I won’t . . .
At d-42.com is another entry on which I had better not comment. All I’ll say is, it’s about a new holiday. The guys will love this one. As for the rest of you, well, check out the first comment to the post for a suggestion that will make you happy . . .
Australian John Ray at Dissecting Leftism says the USA is the last hero nation. And we don’t even wrestle crocs.
Spot On mocks Robert Fisk’s tears shed for Abu Abbas.
Quibbles and Bits tells us where Abu Abbas went.
Mad Kane has hired an ombudsman for his site. The ombudsman, who would like to be known only as “Bud,” has filed his first report. And no, he’s not taking back the dowdifications, and if you say he did, he’ll sue you.
As a prelude to Will Smith’s new movie, I, Robot, the folks at Wordlab take a look at who’s who among the humanoid robots in production in Japan and around the world.
At Hypocrisy and Hypotheses, Alex says he wants a Sunday kind of girl, and has music to go along with the sentiment.
Solomonia gives a comprehensive report, including notes and impressions, on a talk given by Islam expert, Robert Spencer of jihadwatch.org.
Borderline objectivist WeckUpToThees! looks at why Martha Stewart didn’t cop the plea.
Homeless? Planning on being homeless? Interested-Participant can guide you to the most homeless-friendly cities. The new hot destination for the homeless: Key West.
Harvey at Bad Money asks a blogging question that hits home: “Why the hell am I spending an hour tweaking this stupid five-sentence throw-away entry?”
Charles Hill at Dustbury (a favorite here at Patterico’s Pontifications) submits an entry titled Another dead tree heard from. It is an amusing critique of an article in Vanity Fair, which purports to explain the blogosphere. According to Charles, the result is “a hash of half-truths, occasionally punctuated by quarter-truths.”
Dave from Israellycool fisks the FAQs of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), making a convincing case that they are terror appeasers.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars has an essay proposing a solution to the terrorist menace. The essay argues that the West must engage and build bridges to moderate elements within Islam in order to defeat Islamic reactionaries like Bin Laden.
A different solution is proposed by Tao of Dowingba, who issues an open letter to Islamo-fascists. His message: Islamo-fascists must die, now.
Dramaqueen has a coming of age story featuring a “not-so-innocent innernet vixen.”
Attaboy reports that pop singer George Michael has announced he is giving up singing for profit. Attaboy says that Michael’s desire to be left alone can only be topped by curiosity over whether anyone cares.
Tom at Undercaffeinated defends missile defense against an illogical onslaught by Fred Kaplan.
John at Discriminations discusses the slow, reluctant, but increasing abandonment of racially exclusive programs by college administrations still highly addicted to racialism.
The Owner’s Manual explains why a Le Monde editorial called the Spanish bombings “hyper-terrorism.”
Baby Troll Blog says that efforts to redefine marriage are like efforts to redefine pi as equalling 3.0.
Doug at Considerettes has advice for Tim Robbins: if you’re going to do satire, try to include some element of truth in there somewhere.
Last One Speaks reports that John Walters is touring Nevada on the
taxpayer’s dime, stumping against the latest citizen’s initiative to legalize marijuana.
You Big Mouth, You! examines the Kodak company and asks: Where Have All the Jobs Gone?
Wicked Thoughts lists the 11 occasions in history when the “F” word was correctly used.
Eric Berlin has a skeptical look at the idea that politicians are affected by their contributors, as opposed to the notion that politicians attract contributors who agree with them.
QandO warns that the liberal nonpartisan (uh huh) think-tank the Center For American Progress tried to pull a Dowd — but you don’t even have to leave their own website to fact-check them.
The Everlasting Phelps has a radical idea for the distribution of traffic fines.
The People’s Republic of Seabrook has thoughtful comments — and some other stuff — about attracting web traffic.
Goobage has an essay on health care, capitalism, choices, and responsibility.
At Velociworld, Velociman asks: Where’s Your Nuthouse?
DaGoddess rounds things out with a tale of a snail on her windshield.
UPDATE: Here are a couple of late entries:
Les Jones has some fun with a phone camera and photoshop.
The blog “democrats give conservatives indigestion” has a theory about why Fox News may be leaning more to the left nowadays.
That’s it for this week’s Carnival. Upcoming Carnival stops include:
March 24th: Pete Holiday
March 31st: Eric Berlin
April 7th: Leaking Pure White Noise
April 14th: BoiFromTroy
April 21st: Southern Musings
April 28th: WOLves
May 3rd: The Thief’s Den
May 12th: Confessions Of A Political Junkie
May 19th: Dispatches from the Culture Wars
May 26th: Spot On
June 2nd: Tiger
June 9th: Ambient Irony
June 16th: Jessica’s Well
June 23rd: A Single Guy In The South
June 30th: quasi in rem
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Play it at 78
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See this thing in action.
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Nice work. Exhausting, but good.
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Carnival of the Vanities
How cool is this? I submitted an entry to the Carnival and this week’s host, that sweetie Patterico, posted it.
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78th Carnival of the Vanities…
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Every Week for Eighteen Months
Achieving a quiet, but notable, milestone is this week’s Carnival of the Vanities at Patterico’s Pontifications. A year and a half after being launched by Bigwig, the carnival has consistently grown in its appeal and has fostered a number of similar co…
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carnival ala vanity
…is residing at Pattericos this week. Do wander along, have a read, and consider submitting your own entry next week!…
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Is is just me, or is the Carnival growing? Thanks for putting in the time this week (and promoting this newbie bear-flagger). Cheers.
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Green With Envy
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Weekly Roundup of Weekly Roundups
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A nice group of outrageous and not so outrageous links. Keep up the good work.
SDAI-Tech1
“You be strangers. Be ye here for festival?”
“No we came for the carnival.”
“Oh! It is the will of Patterico!“
Comment by SDAI-Tech1 — 3/17/2004 @ 11:18 pm
OK, I give. Explain, please.
Comment by Patterico — 3/18/2004 @ 12:06 am
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It’s time once again for the Weekend Linklog. This post will act as a dumping ground for interesting links I came across this past week and things I happen upon over the couple of days, so check back once in…
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Star Trek episode about Festival of Landru.
Comment by Fûz — 3/19/2004 @ 8:18 pm
Fuz has it right. It was a line used by a townsperson who greeted the crew members. Festival was a time when everyone raped, pillaged and experienced everything in one night that they couldn’t the rest of the time because of computer control.
I guess it’s becoming an obscure reference as time goes by.
Comment by SDAI-Tech1 — 3/21/2004 @ 10:35 pm