One of the drawbacks of this season of outdoor pleasures and long days away from the office is that work goes on even while one is on holiday and it can take awhile to dig out from under upon returning from vacation. So it is with blogging, at least for those of us who make a regular habit of it. There are a number of worthy carnivals that have long since struck their tents without my remarking on their arrival, and so I belatedly draw the following to your attention as deserving a reprise:
The archeology carnival Four Stone Hearth XVI was at Testimony of the Spade in June 6th, and featured Czechs eating frogs 5,000 years ago and other tasty bits.
The 76th Carnival of Satire rolled out on June 11th with the Top 10 Reasons Personal Finance is Different for Mobsters.
Greg Laden hosted Oekologie #6 on June 15th, with a plethora of ecological gems contained therein. A personal favorite covered the discovered of an ancient mushroom contained in amber.
The Carnival of Political Punditry came out on June 17th, which included my post on the ecological impacts of a proposed border fence between much of the US and Mexico.
Beautiful Africa - Ist Edition debuted on June 18th: a celebration of the many silver linings of the "Dark Continent."
Blogging the Renaissance published Carnivalesque - Early Modern Edition on June 20th. There is a fascinating biography of formidable woman and full-time medieval pilgrim Margery Kempe and also my discovery of a Tory in the family tree.
Finally, today's edition of the Carnival of Bad History identifies Dungeon Master Zero for all of you with skeletons and polyhedral dice in your closets.
On a different note, I am honored to be chosen by Bill West of West in New England as a blogger who makes him think. The "Thinking Blogger Award" was conceived by blogger Ilker Yoldas on February 11th of this year, and since then I have been recognized by three different readers with this distinction. Mr. Yoldas has subsequently stated that "I also noticed that some are tagged more than once. I guess I should have included a rule to leave a comment here so that a blogger doesn't get "nominated" twice. =)." Feeling that there is little to be gained by having successive grades of this honor - one shudders to think that there might one day be the equivalent of a Thinking Blogger Award with Oak Leaf Cluster and Swords - I gratefully accept this acknowledgment from Bill West, and Assistant Village Idiot before him, but respectfully decline to pass the meme along multiple times. My initial pick for 5 thinking bloggers can be found here.
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