Carnival #109

The Carnival of the Vanities is hosted this week by Jack Cluth's People's Republic of Seabrook. He's a leftish (and recently hairless) blogger, and I must say that I admire his gracious handling of the rightish posts. It's a good-natured, er, catfight, but what I want to know is how the rabbit got into the killing fields?

A real treat! (The Carnival, of course; still not sure about the man-eating rabbit!)

A few highlights:

  • In a post of particular interest to this blog, Josh Cohen discusses Hollywood's censoring of Alexander the Great! (Apparently, the producers can't handle the man's well-known bisexuality -- at least they want the scenes toned down..... Reality is only for people who can't handle drugs, I guess.)
  • Dissecting Leftism dissects British anti-Americanism.
  • Charles G. Hill lists ten reasons why Republicans are more satisfied with their sex lives than Democrats. (Seems I remember that hookers were polled back in the 1960s, and they opined that Republican conventioneers were more fun than the Dems.)
  • Watcher of Weasels has some good questions for Kerry.
  • La Shawn Barber offers women AIDS prevention advice, and opines that AIDS is not Bush's fault. (This may come as a shock to some.....)
  • Zero Intelligence reveals that to school officials, a butterknife is apparently an assault weapon....
  • Alan K. Henderson is looking very presidential.
  • Solomonia attended a class taught by Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. This post is well worth reading, and I wish I'd attended. (Fascinating fact: "September 11, 1683 was the day the siege of Vienna was broken.")
  • Finally, some admitted pandering with a link to Glenn Reynolds' post about flu shots. A hopeless panderer myself, I think I'll chime in here and offer yet another suggestion: NO FLU SHOTS FOR TRIAL LAWYERS! But all law professors should be vaccinated first, not just to protect them against infected trial lawyers, but to provide students with a practical lesson in wise career choices.
  • A very, very enjoyable Carnival! Go read it!

    posted by Eric on 10.20.04 at 08:54 AM





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    Thanks! It's nice to know that someone is paying attention to the product of all the sleep I lost last night!!

    Jack Cluth   ·  October 20, 2004 09:36 AM

    Thank YOU! Nice job.

    Eric Scheie   ·  October 20, 2004 10:16 AM

    Thanks for posting this Eric. On Josh Cohen's post, yours truly had a major argument with an editor once on this subject (I know, I know, but I got carried away.)

    It is the sworn belief of NY publishing houses that lesbianism is "sexy" and "even women get turned on by it" but two guys is just "yucky" and "who wants to read that." This in defiance of the cottage industry of slash on the net, most of it written by women, for women and featuring "two guys."

    I've noticed some incidence of this strangely chauvinistic thinking on TV and movies also.

    I realize they live from fantasies, but you'd think they'd stay connected enough that reality could occasionally AIM them, no?

    I also realize that an examination of this type of thought is beyond the scope of this blog and particularly of an entry on Carnival of the Vanities. Just a need to vent, I guess.

    I also liked La Shawn Barber's points. And Solomonia -- I've known about the strange muslim obsession with the past since I discovered, in an argument with a Jordanian exchange student, that this educated, world-traveled, to all eyes secular young man considered Iberia muslim land and thought muslims would one day return to it.

    Again thanks for many interesting reads. I probably should work now.

    P.

    Portia   ·  October 20, 2004 04:16 PM

    Thank you Portia! Your comment really deserves an essay length reply, because it's a topic of great interest to me. I know of many lesbians who are turned on by gay male porn. Where's the famous "yuck" factor?

    I hesitate to speculate about people's motives, but it might be fun sometime.....

    Eric Scheie   ·  October 22, 2004 10:15 PM


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