This is my second time hosting Silflay Hraka's Carnival of the Vanities in 2003. I decided to do something different this go 'round: to shut the hell up.

I thought I'd go back to the format original Carnivals and just give you the links and a snippet of the author's work. No judgements. No snarky comments.

I repeat. I am not being lazy and unimaginative. Enjoy.

Desultory Ramblings
"I tell that them it didn't SOUND RIGHT, and they look at me as if I practice voodoo magic. But that's what Old Farts know that they don't." - Acid Man of Gut Rumbles

A Memoir of Scotland
"The most beautiful scenery I have ever seen was Scotland's Western Highlands." - John Ray of Dissecting Leftism

RIAA vs. Everyone
"Taking their que from the success of the coalition military drive into Iraq, the RIAA is now taking a 'more demonstrative stance' against music file swapping at American universities." - Joe of Attaboy

The War And Discouragement
"At one point during the Battle of Britain in the winter of 1940, after a major air raid, the entire nation of Great Britain was defended by exactly seven fighter aircraft." - James of Philosophical Blitzkrieg

Ode to Helen Thomas
"You will laugh, you will cry, you will cringe and perhaps feel the urge to throw up." - Michele of A Small Victory

In My World: Cheney Wishes Undiclosed Location Was More Disclosed
"The only people who use the internet are pedophiles and crack-addicts," Rumsfeld scoffed, "No one will care what they say." - Frank of IMAO

(Not Martin Luther) King
"It takes the Washington Post's Colbert King to task for arguing that a policy that discriminates against some people based on race is not really discriminatory if other members of the alleged victim's group were not injured by the same policy, i.e., Michigan's policy of giving 20 bonus points to minorities was not discriminatory because some whites and Asians got in anyway. Dumb." - John of Discriminations

All right, that'll be enough of that horsecrap
"'Work harder, not...uh...yeah, work harder' seems to be the crusty old Army corporate answer, and the spirit of George McClellan is alive and kicking." - Wind Rider of Silent Running

My State of the World Address
"Thank God for our free American press that toes the line and does what the Pentagon tells it to." - Seth of The Talking Dog

Creeps and Wierdos
"The irony (if Americans can do irony) is that not only do GM actually make buses, but the sort of person that rides the bus because they can't afford a car isn't going to buy a new vehicle, but a used beat-up old jalopy." - Tim of Where Worlds Collide