FAME AND SHAME: Eric Scheie takes on the bluenoses. Fortunately, being shameless, none of this bothers me.

WILL GOOGLE KILL YOUR CELLPHONE CONTRACT? Glenn Derene takes a look.

IS RAHM EMANUEL A RACIST? Kos is asking. (Via Dan Riehl).

KARL ROVE POINTS OUT NETROOTS CURSING, gets this response: “F*ck the f*cking f*ckers.”

You could see that one coming . . . .

BROUGHT A COUPLE MORE OF LEE CHILD’S NOVELS with me. I’m enjoying them, though I’m finding Jack Reacher a bit less sympathetic with each additional story.

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, Hollywood writers would be force to name names so that those who deviated could be punished. And, apparently, they were right!

BRENDAN LOY: Where did all the hurricanes go?

SAY IT AIN’T SO: Clinton aides plant student’s question.

The Clinton campaign admits it, and says it won’t happen again. It shouldn’t. And this is a stumble that may reveal a lot.

It ain’t the 90’s anymore, and this kind of thing is harder to get away with. Have the Clinton folks been keeping up?

UPDATE: Like I said.

OUCH: “Hillary wants a Presidency with training wheels.”

HEH:

In his extended remarks, the former President also explained that Hillary deserved credit for the magnificent job creation and budget surpluses during his two terms; the collapse of the Palestinian peace talks occured only because her invaluable advice went unheeded; and one of his great regrets is that he didn’t listen more carefully when she made the case for aggressively pursuing Osama Bin Laden.

MORE: I ‘fess up – he didn’t really say those other things. Yet.

Whatever it takes!

WELL, DUH: The evidence emerging from the ongoing Al Dura trial in France indicates that Western journalists are fully aware that some of the footage they use in their reports on Mideast conflict is staged.

“When confronted with the pervasive evidence of staging in the case of Al Dura, the reaction of France 2, which ran the story, has been essentially that ‘everybody does it.'”

REPORTEDLY, MUKASEY BELIEVES that the Second Amendment protects an individual right.

THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE: How the war was won. He’s not shy about his theme.

UPDATE: It’s all about evolution.

RAND SIMBERG remembers Kristallnacht.

BLOGWORLD WRAPUP: So, I had a good time. But what’s the big picture? Well, first the show was better than I expected. It was the first iteration of a blogosphere trade show, but it ran smoothly with no major glitches. The exhibitors, etc., were far more polished and professional than I expected. There were lots of new companies offering new products, and a lot of energy. Political blogging has been around a while, and although it’s still growing, it’s no longer exploding like it was in, say, 2002-03. That’s led some people, who mostly look at political blogs, to think that the blogosphere as a whole is in the same state. This thing reminded me just how wrong that is.

It really underscored to me how big and diverse the blogosphere has become. There were lots of big bloggers I barely knew of, because they’re in areas I don’t follow. Some tech folks were telling me that they liked it because, going to the tech conferences, they saw the same people every time. I think a lot of political-blogger types felt the same way. There was plenty of cross-fertilization.

But the bottom line is that the blogging pond has gotten very big, and there are a lot of big fish in it now. I think that’s a huge success for the blogosphere.

SOME MORE BLOGWORLD IMAGES:

There were aspiring Congressmen:

Bloggers in need of stress-relief:

Conversations, possibly of the flirtatious variety:

And, when it was over and people were loading out, some folks just couldn’t bear to shut their laptops:

But they’re going to have another one next year, in September. So it’s not over forever.

UPDATE: So no sooner did I post the picture above when I got an email from Shama Hyder, who saw herself and sends this link to her coverage of Blogworld Expo.

MICHAEL TOTTEN:

A RECIPE FOR Oyster Mushroom Stuffing.

WELL, WE WERE IN LAS VEGAS:

PAJAMAS:

A CELEBRITY APPEARANCE by Matt Welch!

WHEE! I’m blogging!

SOME MORE PHOTOS FROM BLOGWORLD EXPO:

Pinups for the troops:

Duane Patterson and Ed Morrissey:

Bill Roggio:

The vital part of any trade show — free food and drink!

ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA on the Mexican problems that lead to illegal immigration to the U.S.: “What has been the consequence of a century of collectivization of the land? In the 1990s, when trade policies became more liberal, Mexico’s rural population found itself caught up in an extremely inefficient system that was undercapitalized, making it very difficult for Mexican peasants to compete with the outside world. When the government finally allowed the villagers to sell the ejidos, something they had been prevented from doing since 1917, many of them put their land on the market and left for Mexico’s cities. When the urban areas did not offer improved conditions, they migrated to the United States.”

TERRY HEATON: News is a process, not a finished product.

FROM THE INSTA-WIFE, a review of You: Staying Young.