Welcome to Solport and Admiral Quixote's Roundtable. I have the privilege and responsibility of editing the fifty-first edition of the Carnival of the Vanities. As your host, I hope you enjoy your time at Solport. Please pardon the spartan look of the site as the recent switch to Nucleus was the first part of a large construction project. At the top of the site is the Navigation bar. The Communications section and the References section are well visited by my regulars; hopefully you will find something for you.
With no further ado allow me to introduce a truly unique assortment of bloggers, the generous contributors to this carnival. (Note: If you submitted a post that did not appear, read my previous posts and accept my heartfelt apologies).
Solport Bridge
Most bloggers post links to interesting events. Many bloggers contribute their own analysis to current events. Some bloggers are good at it. It is a rare blogger who actually initiates a story. Kudos to Owen for his investigative reporting. He has uncovered a potential scandal involving the Governor of Wisconsin, an abusive union, and pepperonis. This story has all the ingredients for a Pulitzer Prize - if only the Pulitzer organization would pay attention to bloggers.
Greyhawk tells a compelling tale of an American hero. It should be required reading every September 11th. I couldn't help but to contrast Greyhawk's post about Rick with LittleA's post about Lance Armstrong - the quitter. Rick was larger-than-life until the end. Lance proves he is only human after all.
Solport Comm Center, Counterspin Division
A Day of Remembrance – Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on American civilians. Like Pearl Harbor, it will go down in our history as a day of infamy. Also like Pearl Harbor, the unprovoked surprise attack invigorated America and changed the world. And it will continue to change the world for years to come. Americans know this. To their relief and/or dismay, people around the world know this. Several bloggers want to know why the media does not publicize this.
MommaBear is not happy with how the media is expected to handle tomorrow's anniversary. Murray Hill provides another perspective and predicts the mainstream media will go the way of the dinosaurs.
While some bloggers have covered the anniversary story, others have kept an eye out for different forms of propaganda.
Serona analyzes the spin the RIAA is putting on why they are lowering CD prices after being busted for price fixing and how the RIAA threatens our civil liberties.
Maripat, one of the group bloggers at Catholic Pundits, discusses how the media continues to make the mainstream pro-life movement look radical by only quoting from the fringe elements.
Jordana Adams despins the "for the children" argument being raised against home-schooling.
Eric has an intriguing perspective on President Bush's latest speech and Romulus asks readers to make their own decisions about the size of Bush's government.
While on the Left Coast, Kiril Kundurazieff shines the ray of truth on Governor Davis's change of heart.
Brian Arner expresses his doubts about the Bush administration's reasoning on Iraq. Moe Freedman has a different persepctive and reviews some earlier suggestions for forming an Iraqi government.
JR looks at political correctness from a Christian perspective.
Bussorah points out Anti-Americanism may have nothing to do with America.
Solport Security, Psych Ops Division
Sarah Fitz-Claridge, founder of Taking Children Seriously argues that there is nothing wrong with children who loathe school. This post alone would have merited classification within Solport's Psych Ops Division. But my investigation into her past revealed that Sarah has been practicing covert ops skills.
Dean Esmay originally emailed me an interesting post about women. I enjoyed the comments on that post, especially the first one that commented on the evils of Planned Parenthood. I also wondered what the feminists that Dean discussed would think of the original American feminists. A few days later, Dean sent me another link about the monster in his living room, but said I could run both posts if I liked. So I did.
Andrew Ian Dodge is another blogger whose writing generates intelligent responses - a trait to be admired. He theorizes how recent changes in American policy may impact Cuba. The King of Fools worries about another potential change in American policy - babysitting the UN.
Solport Security, Brig
Revsparker paints a shameful picture of American "justice" which provides another example of the tyranny of the judiciary. We are a country of laws, but law without mercy, without flexibility, without due consideration of the facts, sounds more like a police state than America. Revsparker tries to end with a message of hope, but it sounds bittersweet to me.
Bigwig gives a compelling reason why the cloak of secrecy around some immigration trials is flawed.
Safe within one of Solport's padded cells, Sasha holds nothing back in ranting at Rall.
Joe was treated as a potential criminal when the POTUS came to town.
Andres Gentry would like to put DHL in the brig. Failing that, boycott DHL.
Solport Medlab
Pieter explains why he is one in a million and shares his personal experience in living with it. Let us pray he overcomes it for good.
James provides a soothing prescription for blathering actors.
Queen Medb had a bonk-on-the-head day. I can sympathize with her majesty. But I am glad she was suffering for a worthy reason and expect she will make a full recovery.
Solport Academy
Some bloggers gave us a current glimpse at life on campus. Kevin White shares his perspective on the first week of his last semester in college. Pietro discusses an effort by some UCF students to place an American flag in every classroom.
Camilo defines and discusses Blogs while Harvey discusses why he blogs.
Andrew Cline proposes why structural biases are more important to consider than ideological bias.
Fuz offers lessons on building mobile infantry: Lizard calvary, Mecha Starship Troopers, and Fuel Cells.
John Ray debunks the latest research claims denying the link between IQ and genes.
Chuck gives a history lesson concerning Islamic Extremists and September 11. It may surprise you. I certainly learned something.
Dax blogs about the recent etymology of his favorite phrase, just damn! while Bogie educates city folk on rural living etiquette.
J, of the delightfully named Quibbles 'n Bits, has a thoughtful post on the correlation between dictators, industry, and mass executions. This provides additional support for Zombyboy's
post on why the only possible exit for the West is in victory.
Phil theorizes about i Space and alternate realities where anything is possible.
Heather reminds us of Sisyphus with a poetic rendition of the old tale.
Solport Holodeck
TheYeti demands the government do something about pro-Christian bias in the NFL.
Morgaine compares President Bush to a "lite" anti-Christ and theorizes that Arnold's family history will cause him to fix California's next presidential election for Bush in 2004. As of this writing, her link was not working, but you can scroll down to August 12, 2003 for the post.
Israellycool has some doubts about what Mel Gibson really believes.
On the Lighter Side
Alex points out the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Maripat, half of the rockin Republican team at RightWeAre, wishes her partner Lori a happy birthday. Let's see how many birthday wishes Solport and the Carnival can generate. And trivial question of the week - How many blogs have Maripat as a contributing member? (I'll post the answer in a day or so).
DC in the debut week of Brainstorming, reports on a modern day Mayberry R.F.D.
Harvey reveals more reasons why Evil Glenn must be stopped.
Ravenwood offers frank advice for women while Solonor reveals how he met his wife.
As for yours truly, I am still smiling.
Next week, Carnival of the Vanities will be celebrating its first anniversary at the home of its originator, Bigwig's Silflay Hraka.
You missed me, Admiral. <a href="http://snoozebuttondreams.b... Rape and Writers</a> was my submission this week.
Ah, I see what happened now. Outlook Express can indeed be a bee-atch. Well, if anybody's interested you can see what would have been my entry at http://snoozebuttondreams.b...
My entry isn't there either, and I know it was both mailed on time and got out of my inbox.
You can see my <a href="http://www.elhide.com/solo/... target="_blank">time travel post</a> via this comment instead, if you'd like.
You've got the makings of a people's news paper here or at least the people who kind write html. :-)!
and of course that would include people who proofread their posts. :-)!
Clean and concise...good job.
Outstanding job on the CoV!
Especially considering...
Ya missed mine too: http://www.curi.blogspot.co...
Dear Admiral Quixote,
I do not see my submission, Resolve, above. You must have skipped over it by mistake. I will put it here so that those who please may visit it:
http://virtuepure.blogspot....
All, thanks for the compliments, it was fun hosting. My only regret was the email snafu.
Again, for those who sent me a submission that I didn't post, see http://www.solport.com/roun... You have my sincere apologies, but other than being frustrated at Microsoft, there was not anything else I could do.
Where's next Carnival of the Vanities?
The next one just went up at http://silflayhraka.com/arc...
Thanks for the great intro! :-)
For those who may be wondering:
My flashlight is one of those green, 4 "D" battery, MAG-LITE suckers.
The beam it shines is bright and covers a wide area.
All the way to Sacramento, as a matter of fact. :-)