83rd CARNIVAL!

The 83rd Carnival of the Vanities is hosted by Southern Musings, who covered a lot of ground — especially considering that “the one week I am busy beyond belief is the week I am the host.”
I appreciate Anastasia’s hard work!
And here are few posts I especially liked:

Dissecting Leftism debunks the lie that Americans are shorter because of “poor nutrition.”

There’s more on Air America from the Smarter Cop, who notes the absurdity of the “public airwaves” nonsense.

Porphyrogenitus analyzes what Kerry’s response to a heckler says about Kerry.

Smallest Minority demolishes one of the more dishonest gun control tactics: calling adults children. (A tactic I have complained about before.)

Pseudopsalms fisks Michael Moore, whose anti-American appetite seems to grow almost as fast as the rest of him.

Fried Man analyzes Mogadishu and Fallujah.

And finally, Beth Mauldin — a blogger totally new to me — shares an inspiring thought about blogging:

As a lesbian or a Christian or whatever, I’ve always believed that the only way to change someone’s views, stereotpyes and perceptions of lesbians or Christians is if they get to know me and I don’t exactly fit those views, stereotypes and perceptions. It has to be on an individual basis. Same for me, if I don’t know any people who are pretty different from me, then I can depersonalize those types of people and see them as – well – them. And we all know what “we” can do to “them”.
Blogs have the ability to bring a lot of “we” into conversations with a lot of “them”. That’s the value of reading someone write about a lot of topics over a period of time, I’m more likely to find something we have in common, which makes them a little less “them”.

(Less us-versus-them would be a very good thing!)

There are plenty more, but it isn’t my job to review them. They’re all great, so go read ’em!

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