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Batocchio has posted this biweek's edition of Carnival of the Liberals with a focus on human rights. The ten posts he selected, all well worth your time to read, can be found at his blog Vagabond Scholar.
Edition #64 will be on brought to us courtesy of Brave Sir Robin on May 7th with a May 5th deadline. The theme this time is "Thinking Liberally, Thinking Positively". That's right, no nattering naybobs of negativity this time around! Check the call for submissions at the link for the details.
Before I lose your attention completely, the theme for Edition #65 is skepticism and critical thinking in American politics. #65 will be hosted by me on May 21st. I'll post a formal call-for-submissions type post in a few days but of particular interest to me are instances where skepticism and critical thinking have given way to irrationality and how those instances have shaped politics. Conspiracy theories, anti-intellectualism, global warming (and other forms of) denialism, and reactionary populism all fall under this general rubrick and there are plenty of examples both historical and current.
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Larry has posted the latest edition of Carnival of the Liberals over at A Revolution Of One, this time with a new media theme. A very nice mix of contemplative posts in this one. Oh, and while you're checking Edition #62 out, do give the post a Digg if you can. It not only helps Larry, but it helps increase the visibility of Carnival of the Liberals which helps everyone out with more readers. Thanks everyone for being patient while Larry put together this biweek's carnival.
Edition #63 will be on April 23rd at Vagabond Scholar's place courtesy of Batocchio. The theme for this edition is "human rights". You'll want to give the call-for-submissions post a read to see exactly what Batocchio has in mind. read more »
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Wow. I haven't had to post a reminder for Carnival of the Liberals in quite a while. Unfortunately though, we've only had seven submissions to date for CotL #62 which is scheduled to run this Wednesday, April 9th.
I'm hoping that's because people have been intimidated by this week's theme of "new media". So I'm going to postpone the carnival until Friday, April 11th and extend the submissions deadline through Wednesday to give everyone a chance to get their posts in.
You can get all the facts on this biweek's theme at A Revolution Of One, but in a nutshell all posts should either include "new media" or be about "new media". What's "new media" mean? Easy. It's simply any media content created by people and not large centralized content providers. It's you vs. Time-Warner, CBS, NBC, et. al. And while there's certainly a wealth of it about these days it also brings up a lot of issues. Should citizen media creators be more or as trusted than the networks? What about net neutrality and how it fosters the creation and distribution of new media?
Whether you create it, distribute it, consume it, or just write about it, please get your submissions in by the end of this Wednesday. As always, the blogcarnival.com link is your friend. It's things like these special themed editions, and the amazing loyalty and dedication to quality of our bloggers, that make Carnival of the Liberals much more than just a once-every-other-week link-fest.
As you might know, I was on Hans Meyer's Situation Awareness radio program this past Saturday talking about Carnival of the Liberals. If you couldn't tune in you can listen to the show on the Free World Radio Network's site or (hopefully if the embedding works) with the widget to the left.
As always, I really enjoy doing these sorts of things, and besides, it got Hans to volunteer to host Carnival of the Liberals! I think I'm becoming more comfortable talking extemporaneonously although I've got to relax more (if only to get rid of that high pitched edge to my voice). Perhaps in the future, if I ever get my act together, I'll start my own skepticism podcast. Although, I've got to say, Brian Dunning's Skeptoid would be hard to beat.
In any case, thanks go to Hans, FWRN, and Blogtalk Radio. I look forward to doing the show again sometime.
Mike at Tangled Up In Blue Guy may have declared Carnival of the Liberals #60 the Dance of Death but don't let the downer of monicker stop you from reading some great liberal blogging. While it's doubtful that any of us are unfamiliar with any of the topics covered in this edition it's important to be reminded of how strange and macbre things have become over the past years. So go give TUIB Guy some respect and see what has your fellow bloggers bummed.
It looks like this is a busy week for Mike. In addition to this edition of CotL, he's doing Tangled Bank this week and he'll be hosting the Minnesota Atheists radio show next Sunday at 9AM. You can listen in via the magic of the web. In other news, I'll be Hans Meyer's guest on Situation Awareness (part of the Free World Radio Network) on March 29th at 10AM EST talking about all things Carnival of the Liberals.
Next up on Carnival of the Liberals is Alicia who can be found just beyond the Last Left Turn Before Hooterville. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting Alicia this past November at Americans United For Separation Of Church And State's national meeting in DC. You'll definitely want to get a copy of her book The Price Of Right wherein she neatly dispenses with the myths the right wing has used to sell Conservatism to the American public. read more »
One more thing before I let you go... I'd like to do a special edition devoted to skepticism and critical thinking in American politics on May 21st. Of particular interest to me are instances where skepticism and critical thinking have given way to irrationality and how those instances have shaped politics. Conspiracy theories, anti-intellectualism, global warming (and other forms of) denialism, and reactionary populism all fall under this general rubrick and there are plenty of examples both historical and current. I realize this isn't an area most of you write about every day so I wanted to give everybody who is interested in participating a heads up and hopefully we can expand the range of blogs contributing to Carnival of the Liberals.
Manila Ryce posted Carnival of the Liberals #59 early this morning over at The Largest Minority and boy did we have a bunch of contentious submissions this time around. Fitting as it should be for the liberal opposition to the conservative status quo. Won't it be grand when we can get somebody, anybody back into the White House and steer the conversation back to talking about ideas and progress rather than just how much everybody in power sucks? Even if that somebody isn't our personal somebody? Anyhow, go give this fine batch of liberal blogging a read.
Next up is Tangled Up In Blue Guy on March 12th, but before I let you get back to your dinners let me give a couple of shoutouts. First, big thanks to Hans at Free World Radio Network for helping support Carnival of the Liberals. Secondly, props to everyone at Freethought Fort Wayne, the finest bunch of atheists and agnostics you're likely to meet in Fort Wayne, Indiana aka The City Of Churches. Freethought Fort Wayne is organized under Center For Inquiry Indiana.
Well, we may have had that little tiff a couple of hundred years or so back but that little thing wouldn't stop Carnival of the Liberals. And so the 58th edition and second Anglo-American edition of Carnival of the Liberals is up at Liberal England. 10 posts from us Yanks, and 10 posts from our British friends. Would have been up sooner, but Jonathan had to have his tea before he finished.
The Largest Minority is up next time on February 27th but Carnival of the Liberals needs hosts. In fact, we pretty much need to fill every slot from April 9th onward. If you'd like to host, check the schedule and then hit the volunteer form or shoot me an e-mail. While the wonderful submissions we continue to get, almost unbidden, are the heart and soul of Carnival of the Liberals we wouldn't exist if it weren't for our hosts. So if you've contributed to CotL before but have never hosted, why not give it a shot? It's fun!
Karl over at World Wide Webers posted the latest installment of Carnival of the Liberals earlier today. There's something for everyone from iPods to porn (sort of), so don't forget to catch up on this biweek's best liberal blogging.
Next up is Liberal England in two weeks on February 13th. Just like the last time, this will be an Anglo-American edition of Carnival of the Liberals with posts from both sides of the Atlantic. Keep on sending that great liberal blogging!
Also, Carnival of the Liberals needs you! In particular we need a February 27th host but the schedule is wide open from March through the end of the year. So head on over to the CotL site and volunteer today.
Fran at Blue Gal posted the latest edition of Carnival of the Liberals earlier today. Carnival of the Liberals has resumed its normal bi-weekly schedule with the next edition on January 30th at the World Wide Webers. Keep on sending that great liberal blogging!
Karen at The Greenbelt posted the latest edition of Carnival of the Liberals earlier today. Despite it being an odd week for CotL due to the scheduling change we still had a good number of excellent posts sent in.
Carnival of the Liberals #56 is next week, Wednesday, January 16th over at Blue Gal's place after which CotL resumes its normal schedule on January 30th at the World Wide Webers. Keep on sending that great liberal blogging!
Apologies to all, this edition is much delayed. Finally though, here is the the "Best of the Best of 2007" as selected by Carnival of the Liberals own participants and myself. All the submissions for this edition can be found on the Carnival of the Liberals home page.
First up I have to admit being a little puzzled when I received a couple of submissions from Libertarians. While Libertarians aren't prohibited from participating in CotL, as long as their posts are generally supportive of liberalism, these submissions were in fact the same old tired defenses of Libertarian thinking that can be found in Libertarian propaganda everywhere. I'm none too happy spreading Libertarian ideas which I generally find to be foolish and so one won't find such here but happily, Richard from Philosophy, etc. also sent in his critique of one of those Libertarian workhorses, the idea that the minimum wage is a form of coercion. Criticisms of Libertarian ideas I am quite willing to propagate.read more »
Just a friendly reminder that Carnival of the Liberals #53 is coming up Wednesday, December 5th, 2007. This is the first edition of our third year! As such it's our annual best-of edition. Here's how it works:
One quick administrative note: I'll be upgrading the CotL site sometime in the next few days so there could be an indeterminate period of downtime for the site. The blogcarnival.com submission link will be working throughout though.
Last week about a dozen other bloggers and myself attended Americans United For Separation Of Church And State's national meeting and 60th anniversary reception in Washington, DC. In addition to getting to meet and discuss issues with a large number of enthusiastic, committed activists, chapter leaders and bloggers there were sessions designed to hone our organizing, fund-raising and lobbying skills. Personally, it's sometimes disheartening observing the casual abuse and disregard of our first freedom in this time when religious extremism holds such sway. However the opportunity to join together with both believers and non-believers alike was a great reminder that very many people do take separation of church and state seriously and went a long way toward giving me renewed hope that this freedom that so many take for granted won't be thrown aside because AU will be there fighting for as long as it takes.
So when Beth Corbin, AU's National Field Director and proprietrix of Yikes! volunteered to host this edition of Carnival of the Liberals it was only natural to make church-state separation the theme and dedicate it to AU. Beth's edition is up now. Go read and enjoy.read more »
Yikes! Carnival of the Liberals #52 is almost here, or there as it were. There being Yikes! of course, this Wednesday, November 21st. In honor of Americans United For Separation of Church and State's 60th anniversary we're trying to make this a church-state separation themed carnival. So if you have anything you've written recently related to the separation of church and state, feel free to send it along. If you haven't, then there's still time because the deadline isn't until Monday, November 19th at 11:59PM. As always, blogcarnival.com does the job.
Also, I'd like to note that this is the very last edition of Carnival of the Liberals in our 2nd year. Next time will be our best-of edition where everyone who has participated in Carnival of the Liberals this past year sends in what they consider their best post of the 2006-2007 season. And finally, I'm scheduling hosts for year three of CotL so if you'd like to volunteer, just drop me an e-mail.
Blue Steel over at Pollyticks.com has your bi-weekly fix of the all that's good in the liberal blogosphere. As always it's great to see some new faces amidst all our old friends.
I also wanted to mention that I'll be headed to DC this weekend. Americans United for Separation of Church and State has invited myself and several other bloggers down to participate in organizing, fund raising and lobbying training, not to mention help AU celebrate it's 60th anniversary. I'm not sure who all is coming but I'm told that among those attending will be Blue Gal, DCup, Phil Plait, and PZ Myers. Wonder if I can finally convince DCup and Phil to host Carnival of the Liberals? In any event it'll be great to meet so many of my bloggy friends in real life.read more »
Hope everyone's having a restful Sunday, but time and tide and Carnival of the Liberals wait for no one. The next edition of Carnival of the Liberals is this coming Wednesday, November 7th over at Pollyticks.com. That means we need your submissions by 11:59PM EST Monday, November 5th. Use the link Luke, use the link...
Sorry everyone, I'm a little late getting this out but you've got to read this bi-week's Carnival of the Liberals. Faith at That Is So Queer... has what can only be described as the best rhyming edition of Carnival of the Liberals to date! And that's not even mentioning all the fine liberal writing linked therein. So go give Faith some liberal lovin' and don't forget that kind of lovin' all bloggers want -- links. Next up on November 7 is Pollyticks.com.
I'm back haunting your e-mail inboxes, web browsers and feed readers trying to scare up some choice posts for Carnival of the Liberals #50. Faith from That Is So Queer... is looking for your best liberal blogging. CotL #50 is next Wednesday, October 24th but the deadline is early this time. Faith needs your blog posts by the close of Sunday, October 21st. Exorcise your demons (or exercise them too -- nobody likes flabby demons) at blogcarnival.com.
Tangled Up In Blue Guy brings us the fortnight's best grumpy liberal blogging for this 49th edition of Carnival of the Liberals. Join us October 24th for our anger management seminar Carnival of the Liberals #50 at That Is So Queer.
It's just about that time again. No, not dinner time. Time for Carnival of the Liberals! But first you've got to get your submissions to Tangled Up In Blue Guy before the deadline expires at 11:59PM EST, Monday October 8th. So if you've got a post that you think is pretty darn good send it our way via blogcarnival.com. Carnival of the Liberals will be posted on Wednesday, October 10.
