Carnival Of The Vanities # 54
Welcome to Carnival of the Vanities #54; Dodgeblogium is very pleased to host this event.
Perhaps a word of explanation of the layout would be helpful: Are you a bit befuddled by all this Cthulhu stuff? Andrew has written an idiots guide to the Cthulhu mythos and things Lovecraftian, which should help you sort it out. Even if you are still confused, please go enjoy the lovely tidbits linked below.
* * Goat with a Thousand Young
Phelps gives us The Down and Dirty on Skidmarks [giggle]
Here’s a most deserved kudo from Steven, at The People’s Republic of Seabrook
Ever seen a full moon in the middle of the day? Apparently someone In Sheep’s Clothing has!
With great good humour, Blackfive discusses Blackfive And Gays In The Military
WICKED THOUGHTS has a very incorrect joke about a zebra
Bad Money has 21 Choices of Either/or that no man should ever have to make
* * Yog Shoggoth
Jeremiah, of Fringeblog is ‘Shocked, Shocked!’...Which one of your civil liberties has been violated? If you said “None,” congratulations! Read some more of this post, now!
From the Spacecraft, the tale of the EuroWeenies shooting into Space
From Snooze Button Dreams comes a ‘morphing post’ about sytems satirizing the UN
Hello…First Amendment?...a discourse from the King of Fools about telemarketing
Michele has multiple posts on a rather disturbing story; the latest post gives the other links….....
Pathetic Earthlings spies on the US Spies and reviews the end product
The SmarterCop takes a look at “DWS” as a safety measure
From Wizbang comes a warning about censorship over advertising that’s NOT swearing….....
Angelweave has just a wee gripe about her phone company!
The Laughing Wolf adds Making Government Count In Space Commercialization
as one of his posts in a 3-way round-robin
* * Necronomicon
Sol rebukes the WaPo, and a right good thrashing it is, too!
Eddie tears apart Mark Leiman’s writings, and other writers who seem to have descended to political hackery.
A Parody by Parable from Feste...Go enjoy the deliciousness…
Norbizness [Happy Furry Puppy Story Time] has great fun with computers spoofing/picking on Bill O’Reilly
MommaBear’s snarling again, this time about the media: And they say we are failing!
John Ray has a warning for bloggers: we’re targetted now, by special spam…......
* * He who Shall not be Named
James, resting by the Parkway, thinks about basketball and concludes he doesn’t think much of it at all….....
...haunting similarities between the ultimate sidekick…and Seinfeld’s neighbor, as described by Dave L...
Unintended Result at a pub from Griffany Online
Da Goddess decides: I Don’t Think Moving to a New Village Is An Option
* * Innsmouth Look
It’s all CRYSTAL CLEAR to Steve Silver about Bill Kristol
Dean gives wings to the drive for toys for The New Uncle Wiggle Wings
Sportsblog compares the 2003 Red Sox with the 1927 Yankees’ slugging record
* * Miskatonic University: Philosophy Dept.
Tim wants to see gnotalex build again…[disclaimer, Tim is a rail-buff supreme!]
“I Don’t Need Protecting” is very well said by Dave Tepper, in his usual honest style…
A double posting of a most thoughtful essay on where we are headed and the questions we must ask ourselves….....from a gentleman who blogs at both Dodgeblogium and Silent Running
Chris, The Noble Pundit, opines: I Am Learning Way Too Much About The Law and Is The Credit Bubble About To Burst?
AttaBoy takes a hard look at Opportunites of a Lifetime with his magnifying glass!
Jay Solo asks THE Question Of The Week – about baby names….....
SugarMama talks of a different kind of Homecoming
Quibbles-n-Bits offers us two crunchy nuggets for your Inner Puppy
Solonor wanders off wondering about some offspring or other; just follow his link!
The Speculist puts himself under his own microscope with Now Who’s Asking the Questions?
Anger Management creates Don: A Legend In His Own Mind ???
A week’s vacation [ return to squirrel hill (with footnotes!) ] leaves our hero, Caleb Walker, quite disturbed….....
My Life As A Fischer posts the first installment of his series: Memoirs of A Homeless Man: Premonition
PC Watch shows that PC is smothering religious liberties, not protecting
them
Boots and Sabers shares Confederacy”>some letters and some thoughts from the Civil War
Fragments from Floyd opines that we all need a place: Ancestors: The Grafted Roots
* * Miskatonic University: Political Science Dept.
The Admiral does an admirable job of analyzing the CA governor race debate from an objective viewpoint.
Alan K. H. asks THE definitive question: What do capuchin monkeys reveal about human political behavior?
DISCRIMINATIONS discusses an interesting poll result from minorities in California
Sasha opines that Ted Kennedy is right – slightly!
A possible solution to the Tom/Arnold Dilemma from Patterico
Peaktalk talks sense about Sustaining That Spirit in Canada
Exultate Justice gives us The Gloves Are Off: the Left vs. the US at war
Slings and Arrows asks a bold question: Are the Democrats promoting slavery in CA?
Musings from Brian J. Noggle muses: When is A not A? concerning The Children
Here endeth the Carnival of the Vanities # 54!
Dodgeblogium has been most pleased to have hosted this for your pleasure; naturally, as the hosts, we of Dodgeblogium are also hoping you will bookmark this site for return visits.
Next week’s Carnival of the Vanities [ #55 ] will be at Dancing With Dogs.
31 commentsCoE of Messiah “issues”
Following the leaking of the Church of England’s press strategy on homosexuality, The Daily Telegraph has obtained a further document, of uncertain age.
Notes towards a Handling Strategy on Messiah Issues
Issue: JC’s claim to be “the Son of God” is absorbing virtually all public attention, making it impossible to be seen and heard in any other terms, and attracts unwelcome attention from the Roman authorities.
Objective: to refocus attention and interest away from Messiah issue and towards more positive and less divisive themes.
Suggested strategies: play down activities perceived by focus group research as “showing off” walking on water, converting same into wine, etc. Emphasise “big tent”, community-centred activities, such as healing of sick, raising of dead and willingness to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s. JC as public speaker: try Mount as venue for sermon? Also address democratic deficit re: meek.
Strongly advise against: confrontation with money-changers, Pharisees. Former may be core campaign donors; latter may provide ideological support if properly handled.
Comments are off for this postLet the jokes begin…
CMU reports:
More on the previously reported Michael Jackson greatest hits album -which
will fulfil Jacko’s commitment to Sony Music. Word is the album will feature
More lame facts
Once you’ve filtered out the spin, finding good news in the week’s headlines
is a forlorn hope. Here’s some of the residue that’s left, anyway.
Shocking services
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– Tens of thousands of kids are getting lessons from staff who are nottrained in the subject say government figures (that should have been
published in 2000 but seem to have been shelved before the 2001 election). – The first contracts for the NHS’s 2.3-billion-pound IT progamme are being
delayed again as bidders ‘struggle with tough terms’ (yeah — or more
likely, ponder why they’re daft enough to deal with NHS bureaucracy at all). – Rail chief Peter Field warns that London trains could reach ‘third-world’
levels of overcrowding without a rapid rise in investment. – A YouGov poll finds that half the public are dissatisfied with the police
and think transport and health services are worse than in 1997. – Delays in approving new eye treatments have condemned 18,000 people to
blindness, according to the RNIB.
Fat bureaucracies
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– Labour ministers have spent over 1 million pounds on art for their officewalls, says to the Culture Secretary (except she thinks that’s good!). – Central government running costs rose 10 percent in the last 5 months. – Britain spends by far the smallest proportion of what it raises in car
taxes on its transport system, a MORI survey finds. – The cost of the new Scottish parliament is up again, by 31.9 million
pounds to 400 million, ten times the original estimate. – Incentives work! Speed cameras are such a money-spinner for the fuzz that
their number has increased by 1000 over the last year, a 22 per cent rise. – Network Rail is saving 5 billion by cutting down repairs on rural lines. – The Royal navy has spent 100,000 pounds on a new logo. Their red ensign
motif no longer flutters and the background changes from neutral to blue.
Battered public
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– The proportion of pensioners living in poverty has risen since 1997. – UK consumers increased their credit-card and overdraft debts by an extra1.6 billion pounds last month. – Higher fees will still leave universities short of 1.6 billion a year by
2010, according to the Higher Education Policy Institute. – The constituencies of Gordon Brown, John Prescott and Patricia Hewit are
among the very worst for combatting unemployment, say the LibDems. – The stockmarket slump has left Gordon Brown with a 1.4 billion hole in
capital tax receipts. (So you’ll just have to pay it some other way.) Comments are off for this post
Take Me Out At The Ballgame
In honor of the baseball playoffs starting today, two quotes (sorry, no links) from my two favorite color-men.
Tim McCarver: That was a real Linda Ronstadt fastball.
Announcer: A Linda Ronstadt fastball?
McCarver: Yeah. Blue Bayou.
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There was a game in — I think — Yankee Stadium. At any rate, both teams’ bullpens were way out in left field.
A batter got hit and the benches cleared. Pointless milling about and yelling.
The doors of the bullpens flew open and the respective pitching staffs jogged, in two-by-two harmony, across the entire field until they, too, were engaged in pointless milling about and yelling.
Joe Morgan: Why do they do that?
Announcer: Do what?
Morgan: Run all the way from over there. They just have to leave the bullpen and they can start shoving each other right away.
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