Soccer Dad: Of the council and carnivals 09/17/06

September 17, 2006

Of the council and carnivals 09/17/06

Last week I was unable to record Watcher's councils results for September 8, 2006. They are available in their entirety at the Watcher of Weasels.

The result was a 3-way tie and the Watcher himself had to settle the tie and chose It's not a war it's a trendy buzzword at Sundries Shack, a careful defense of President Bush's use of the term "Islamic fascism."

Second place, then, was tied between Josuhua Pundit's alarming It Is Time for Jews to Think About Leaving Western Europe and Right Wing Nuthouse's 9/11 Tin Foil Hats Are Melting debunking of 9/11 myths.

The juxtaposition of those articles are worthwhile reminders that real dangers are often ignored at the cost of creating fake ones.

Though I was shut out of the Council's voting, I got some relief because my nominee for non-council post Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win, which demonstrates how (well meaning) folks actually end up enabling Israel's enemies.

The September 15 edition was won by Socratic Rhythm Method's Your Chance of Dying in a Terrorist Attack, which asks if what's important is the chance of someone dying in terror attacks, or what those attacks represent.

Second place was a tie between ShrinkWrapped's 9/11 Ambiguities about the problems Democrats and Republicans have articulating America's challenge and my Three strands not easily broken.

In four weeks on the council I'm grateful to my council colleagues for having twice voted me to second place in competition with some of the best blogging anywhere.

During the past two weeks I've had entries in the Carnival of the Insanities. Last week and this week.

Two last notes about carnivals.

Apparently due to the threat of abuse Conservative Cat no longer has his Carnival Submit form. I'm sorry to see that he no longer offers this service. I'm going to have to change my template. Now your only options are direct e-mail and Blog Carnival.

Two weeks ago Meryl Yourish wrote

You know, if you�ve never hosted a carnival, you cannot comprehend how much work it is. If you�re a conscientious host, you read every single entry and then write a snippet or a summary about it. That�s why I generally don�t do it anymore. It�s too much work. So hats off to the people who do it multiple times, like the two bloggers mentioned above.

On the other hand when Jack's Shack reviews his most popular posts, several of them are editions of Haveil Havalim. Whether the return is worth the effort depends on the individual blogger.

It is a lot of work. So for all of you who host carnivals, especially Haveil Havalim, I just want to let you know that I appreciate it tremendously.

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