There were a lot of really good series posted in 2003. Below is a list of the nominations for the 2003 Koufax Award for Best Series. Let us know which ones you think should be the 7-10 finalists in this category.
The 2003 Koufax Award nominees for Best Series are:
Alas, A Blog for Ampersand’s series Constitutionality and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban located here, here, and here. Amersand has also been nominated for his series on The Wage Gap.
Hope Morrison writes at Appalachia Alumni Association as well as at Open Source Politics. Her series on Medicare has been nominated for Best Series.
A Skeptical Blog by Dominion has been nominated for his series Jim Bomford: Live in Fear of Homosexuals!. That series is in nine parts and may be located at one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.
Ted Barlow, formerly at his own site and now at Crooked Timber has been nominated for his series of light bulb jokes. The light bulb warehouse is here.
The Bloviator is nominated for his posts constituting Cover the Unisured Week (scroll up).
The incomparable Jeanne D’Arc of Body and Soul is nominated for her series Looking for Alternatives located here, here, and here.
Chris Brooke of The Virtual Stoa is nominated for his Dead Socialist Watch series. The three most recent entries in that series, numbers 62, 63 and 64 are located here, here, and here, respectively.
Elton Beard’s Busy, Busy, Busy is nominated for his Shorter Series. I do not link to any specific post because you can just go to the site and begin reading.
Kevin Drum of Calpundit is nominated for his coverage of the Valerie Plame story as well as for his regular Friday Cat Blogging feature, the last entry of which is here.
Hesiod of Counterspin Central is nominated for his series The Bush Fedayeen Watch.
Damn Foreigner is nominated for the series on Maher Arar.
The Daily Kos is nominated for his How They Can Win series. That series includes entries on the campaigns of Lieberman, Dean, Edwards, Graham, Kerry, and Gephardt.
Daniel Davies, formerly of the D-Squared Digest is nominated for his Shorter Stephen den Beste posts (scroll up).
Gen Foods and Emma of Notes on The Atrocities are nominated for the Dossiers Project.
Sam Heldman of the dormant Ignatz is nominated for his series of posts on the judicial nomination of William Pryor.
Mark Kleiman is nominated for his series of Valerie Plame posts both on his own site and on Open Source Politics.
Deltoid by Tim Lambert is nominated for his series on John Lott.
Liberal Oasis is nominated for his weekly feature Sunday Talkshow Breakdown. A sampling of those entries are here, here, here, here, and here.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Making Light is nominated for her series on the missing or destroyed Iraqi Antiquities.
David Neiwert of Orcinus is nominated for his series Rush, Newspeak and Facism. That series can also be located at Cursor and in pdf ($5 donation requested) here.
Nathan Newman has three nominations in this category. He has been nominated for his series on the minimum wage, his series asking Is Growth Real? (located here, here, and here), as well as his series Why Unions?
Swopa of Needlenose is nominated for his coverage of the Valerie Plame scandal.
Charles Kuffner is the proprietor of Off the Kuff. Charles has been nominated for his exhaustive coverage of the Texas redistricting saga and for his series on the K-Mart Kiddie Roundup.
Pedantry is nominated for the series An Alternative To Normative Liberal Political Theory located here, here, and here.
Prometheus 6 is nominated for the series Startin' Stuff about reparations.
Jim Capazzola of The Rittenhouse Review is mominated for his series on former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt entitled Bye Bye Harvey. Those posts may be found here, here, here, here, here, and here.
The Slacktivist is nominated for Best Series for his Left Behind posts.
Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall is nominated for his coverage of the Valerie Plame matter.
Rev. Allen H. Brill of The Right Christians has two nominations in this category. First, he is nominated for his posts on The Bible and Economics. Those posts are here, here, and here. Allen is also nominated for his series The Gospel According to Adam Smith found here, here, and here.
Mac Thomason of War Liberal is nominated for his coverage of Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments.
That is a lot of great stuff. Which of those series stands above the others?
Posted by Dwight Meredith at January 6, 2004 04:09 PM | TrackBackI nominate:
David Orcinus for "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism"
Talking Points Memo for its Valerie Plame coverage
Mark Kleiman for his Valerie Plame Coverage
Counterspin for Bush Fedayeen Watch
Liberal Oasis for its Sunday Talk breakdown
And, on a lighter note, Busy Busy Busy for its "shorter" series
Posted by: pontificator at January 6, 2004 04:58 PMI'll go with Nathan Newman's minimum wage series, Pedantry and Slacktivist.
Nathan Newman's minimum wage series was very good.
Both of Ampersand's series were also good. Who can not like Kevin Drum's Catblogging?
Daily Kos! That guy's been rocking.
Posted by: wildg at January 6, 2004 08:19 PMOff the Kuff has been a must read on all things "redistricting". Can't say enough about him.
Also, Theresa's posts on Iraqi antiquities were supurb.
Posted by: Seth at January 6, 2004 08:31 PMDamn Foreigner, Mark Kleiman, David Neiwert, Nathan Newman, and Prometheus 6.
Posted by: Al-Muhajabah at January 6, 2004 11:12 PMDavid Niewert, Orcinus: "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism"
Surely Calpundit's Friday Cat Blogging should be head the list of "Worst Series"! Rest of Kevin's blog is passable, though...
Posted by: Matthew Holt at January 7, 2004 01:24 AMJust wanted to point out that you forgot Part IV of the Looking for Alternatives series, which makes me feel almost as uncomfortable rereading it as it did the 1st time around.
And I'll jump on the Nathan Newman bandwagon, mainly because I remember it.
Posted by: David at January 7, 2004 02:44 AMAlas A Blog
Off The Kuff
Pedantry
nathan Newman
Too many good ones. if I have to choose, votes in this order:
Newman for Minimum Wage
Off the Kuff for the redistricting
Sam Heldman for Pryor
Calpundit for the Valerie Plame series.
Posted by: ritam at January 7, 2004 12:22 PMHope Morrison for Medicare info
Barlow for Lightbulb Jokes
B^3 for Shorter Whoever
Kleiman for Plame coverage
Liberal Oasis for Sunday talk show stuff
Orcinus
Slacktivist for Left Behind
War Liberal for Roy Moore stuff
Neiwert for Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism.
Slacktivist for Left Behind series.
Josh Marshall for Valerie Plame coverage.
Kuffner for the Texas Redistricting coverage.
Busy, Busy, Busy for the shorter series.
Posted by: jackson at January 7, 2004 01:48 PMOops, I meant to include Tim Lambert's work on John Lott. Please add in one more vote for me.
Posted by: Charles Kuffner at January 7, 2004 01:59 PMDamn Foreigner for Arar.
TPM for Plame.
Orcinus for Rush, Newspeak and Facism.
Gotta run. Busy, busy, busy. (No, that's not a vote though it is a good blog.)
Orcinus
Bloviator
I am voting for David Niewart for his "Rush, Newspeak and Facism" series for its amazing depth of evidence and analysis.
Posted by: fester at January 7, 2004 05:07 PMMore great stuff; the following five I followed, or still follow in some cases, very closely:
Mark Kleiman
Deltoid by Tim Lambert
David Neiwert of Orcinus
Charles Kuffner
Slacktivist
AB
Posted by: Angry Bear at January 7, 2004 09:55 PMOff the Kuff's coverage of redistricting was exhaustive and better than anything the Texas media could put together.
Calpundit's Plame coverage is a close second.
Posted by: Pete at January 7, 2004 11:19 PM- Lightbulbs
- SSdB
- Kos's How They Can Win
- Marshall on Plame
So much great stuff, but I've managed to boil it down to these:
Alas, A Blog for Ampersand’s series Constitutionality and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
Kevin Drum of Calpundit for his coverage of the Valerie Plame story
Sam Heldman of Ignatz for his series of posts on the judicial nomination of William Pryor.
Mark Kleiman for his series of Valerie Plame posts both on his own site and on Open Source Politics.
Deltoid by Tim Lambert for his series on John Lott.
David Neiwert of Orcinus for his series Rush, Newspeak and Facism.
Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall for his coverage of the Valerie Plame matter.
Posted by: Kristjan Wager at January 8, 2004 09:13 AMKleiman, Barlow, Marshall, and D-Squared.
Posted by: JP at January 8, 2004 10:01 AMCat blogging by Kevin Drum and Lightbulb jokes by Ted Barlow.
Posted by: Jane at January 8, 2004 11:03 AMIgnatz, Barlow, Making Light, BusyBusyBusy (what the hell is a bokonist, anyway?) and my dark horse sentimental favorite, the KMart Kiddie Roundup at Off the Kuff
Posted by: julia at January 8, 2004 11:50 AMBusybusybusy
Lightbulbs
TPM
Deltoid
Kuffner
Talking Points Memo for Josh Marshall's coverage of the Valerie Plame matter – terrific
Rev. Allen H. Brill of The Right Christians for both series -- The Bible and Economics and The Gospel According to Adam Smith
Charles Kuffner of Off the Kuff for the Texas redistricting saga
Elton Beard’s Busy, Busy, Busy for the Shorter series
Neiwart - 'Rush, newspeak & fascism'
Marshall - 'Plame'
Kos - 'How they can win'
Tim Lambert
Posted by: Tim at January 8, 2004 01:38 PMDamn Foreigner for his relentless Maher Arar posting.
Posted by: dublingal_ny at January 8, 2004 03:02 PMScott Martens. Who else would think of proposing an altenative to liberal normative political theory in a freaking blog post?
Posted by: David Weman at January 8, 2004 03:05 PMDaily Kos "How they can win"
Hesiod "The Bush Fedayeen Watch"
Alas, A Blog "Constitutionality..."
Kevin Drum "Cat blogging"
Talking Points Memo Valerie Plame coverage
Orcinus-Rush Newspeak Fascism
Busy Busy Busy-Shorter
Slacktivist-Left Behind (one needs a good touch of comedy after reading a long and well thought out Dave Neiwart post)
Standouts for me:
Slacktivist on Left Behind
TPM on Valerie Plame
Lightbulb week.
Posted by: Katherine at January 9, 2004 09:48 AMYikes, this category's even harder than 'best post', not least because each series represents so much more work.
Slacktivist 'Left Behind'
Daniel Davies 'Shorter SDB'
Orcinus 'Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism'
Body and Soul 'Looking for Alternatives'
Damn Foreigner 'Maher Arar'
Nathan Newman 'Why Unions'
and
Mark Kleiman Plame posts. The best one-stop shop of the many bloggers who covered this closely.
Again, for me Josh Marshall is in another class on this -- his articles were actual journalism, and he's one of the people responsible for making the Plame case a story. Too 'real-world' for a blog award.
This is an easy one: Mark Kleiman for the Plame series. Highlighting ignored stories: one of bloggings biggest contributions.
Posted by: SJS at January 9, 2004 01:50 PMthe Plame story must win, with a first place tie to Calpundit, Josh Marshall and MARK
Posted by: FDL at January 9, 2004 05:28 PMOrcinus
CalPundit
Josh Marshall
orcinus
Posted by: Mark H at January 10, 2004 06:23 AM1) David Neiwert - Rush, Newspeak & Fascism
2) The Right Christians
3) Kevin's Cat Blogging (for "empty calorie" fun)
4) Deltoid - Tim Lambert
Orcinus - Rush, Newspeak and Fascism
Mark Kleinman - Valerie Plame discussions
Posted by: (: Tom :) at January 10, 2004 09:17 PMHesiod
Kos
Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Iraqi Antiquities; reading that rich and stunning series introduced me to her site.
David Neiwert's Rush, Newspeak and Facism
Charles Kuffner's Texas redistricting saga
Jim Capazolla's Bye Bye Harvey
Josh Marshall's Valerie Plame matter
Posted by: lea-p at January 10, 2004 09:17 PMJim Cappazola's Harvey Pitt series
Josh Marshall on Valerie Plame matter
Calpundit on Valerie Plame
Both Liberal Oasis and Talking Points Memo get my vote
Posted by: OzBill at January 11, 2004 01:19 AMI've been enjoying Swopa's Valerie Plame series at NeedleNose followed by the coverage at Talking Points Memo.
Posted by: Ramin at January 11, 2004 03:28 PMDavid Neiwert/Orcinus for "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism"
Posted by: Penny at January 12, 2004 07:27 PMCharles Kuffner
Posted by: kos at January 13, 2004 03:21 PMOrcinus (David Neiwert) for "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism." This is the single most important essay I've read since Orwell's "Politics and the English Language." It is the best explanation of how and why we are where we are today, and is the loudest warning of where we're headed.
Posted by: Thunder at January 16, 2004 09:21 AMDavid Neiwert's Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism. Scary, true, and wonderfully written.
Posted by: Peter Horace at January 16, 2004 09:27 PMOrcinus (David Neiwert) for "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism." Dave has tackled the problem of "cultural leakage" (aka "mainstreaming") that channels extreme right rhetoric into the media. It's been a huge problem and this series is the best thing to hit the blogosphere this season.
Posted by: Warbaby at January 17, 2004 10:41 AMTPM on Valerie Plame
Orcinus "Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism"
Calpundit's Friday Cat Blogging
Alas's series about "partial birth" abortion - it helped me write testimony against such legislation in Massachusetts. Which led to my article (available now) at American Politics Journal about the Massachusetts' legislative hearings. ;)
I also nominate Crooked Timber's light bulb warehouse (one of the first blog posts I ever saw), Body and Soul, Slactivist, and Kevin Drum's "Friday Cat Blogging."
Posted by: Trish Wilson at January 22, 2004 04:50 PM