I am delighted to report that that last week's Carnival (which provoked a humorous schism) hasn't hurt the Carnival of the Vanities one bit.

The 135th Carnival is now posted at Nick Marinelli's Conservative Dialysis. Nick has done a great job, and none of the bloggers seems to have been unfairly maligned. Says Nick:

Even though there are a few posts with which I strongly disagree, or think that the author is completely off their rocker, I have withheld any editorial comment on the content of any of the posts. After all, it is you the reader who is supposed to judge them; not the host.