The annual meeting of the American Political Science Association wrapped up last weekend in Chicago, and the bloggers are starting to weigh in.

Daniel Drezner comments on the sartorial sense of political scientists, poses a throny etiquette question, and gives his nomination for quote of the conference.

Robert Farley reports on an APSA panel discussion on withdrawal from Iraq featuring James Wirtz of the Naval War College, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, and Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Farley, an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky, also has some thoughts on the fashion sense (or lack thereof) of political scientists.  

Jeff Yates, an associate professor at the University of Georgia, wonders whether conferences should play such a central role in academe at a time when technological advances allow scholars to correspond and exchange information rapidly and effectively by remote.

Jodi Dean, a professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, learned that "being thoughtful and other-regarding wins more friends than being haughty and hostile."