Welcome to this week's edition of Bonfire of the Vanities: "the worst posts from otherwise excellent bloggers".

(Note: these are submitted by others, and written by yet others, and I take no responsibility for any feelings that get hurt.)

Nikita Demosthenes details John Kerry's alleged Communist connection. Why this is in the Bonfire (i.e. your worst posts), I'm not sure, but hey — if the shoe fits ...

Who says conferences are boring? Looks like Andrew Ian Dodge had a very exciting and educational experience at his most recent one.

My mother always told me that, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all." SpaceMonkey must have been really ornery this week.

Sean Hackbarth aims to defend his home state against cheesy (ahem) stereotypes — a battle this New Jersey native is quite a veteran of. By his own estimation, he comes up short.

Losing The Space Race tries his hand at a bit of snarky comedy. Umm ... don't quit your day job quite yet.

Spirit Fingers laments the rise and fall of hottie Michelle Yeoh. She's now reduced to dating old Frenchmen. OK, old, rich, Frenchmen.

Digger picks Oliver Wills as his asshat of the week, forgetting that trackback means they'll discover your shit-talking and do some of their own.

In this age of forged memos, it's good to see that Apropos of Something did some fact-checking on Britney's "Letter of Truth".

Free Punchline has a red scrunchie. No, seriously: that's it.

Joe Ham takes his pot shots at the least flattering Kerry photo since that Teletubby space-suit.

The Jawa Report links to pictures of a hot Swedish chick and gets a fierce debate about race politics. Behold the Cablinasian enigma that is Tiger Woods!

D-42 is ruthless, but appropriately so — there's no excuse when a published book has this many typos.

Geek meets sketchy filename. Geek can't get rid of it. Geek discovers its Achilles heel. Go read about it at King of Fools.

If you think Bloomberg's an asshole about smoking, be glad you're not in the EU. Interested-Participant tells us that the EU hopes to flat-out ban tobacco smoking, according to their head of health enforcement.

And last, but not least, classical values has a photo of a tree growth that looks like a very large, moldy piece of cheese-flavored popcorn.

I almost forgot — thanks to Kevin, the contributors, people who linked to this and all the readers.

And, that's all! Next week: Dodgeblogium.

No more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.