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Let's hear it for the hard working Wampum Blog!

My nominations:

NEW BLOG:
Ed Fitzgerald's unfutz

HUMOROUS BLOG:
WTF Is It Now??

MOST DESERVING OF WIDER RECOGNITION:
All Hat No Cattle

Best expert blog: Mixing Memory

Best new blog: James Wolcott

Best overall blog: Hullabaloo (Digby)

Best writing: The Rude Pundit

Best humour blog: Fafblog

Oh, just come over for dinner. Its my birthday and silly curly tailed pigs are welcome.

Best Blog
http://atrios.blogspot.com

Best Writing
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com

Best Series
David Neiwert of Orcinus: "The Rise of Pseudo Fascism"

Best Single Issue Blog
http://maxspeak.org/mt/index.html

Best Group Blog
http://corrente.blogspot.com

Most Humorous Blog
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com

Most Humorous Post
Never forget the wolf ad!!!
http://www.thepoorman.net/archives/003338.html#003338

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
http://www.sadlyno.com/

Best Expert Blog
http://www.juancole.com/

Best New Blog
http://blondesense.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday Eric.

Best Group Blog
The American Street - something for everyone
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Collective Sigh - superb analogies
Best Series or Creature Blogging
Dohiyi Mir - The Life of Sam photoblogging
Best Writing
Michael Bérubé - erudite snark
Most Humorous Post
Scaramouche: Bush and Saddam's Pistol
Best Commenter
Steve Bates of Yellow Doggerel Democrat

Thanks, y'all.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Chuck Currie: Views on Faith and Politics by a United Church of Christ Seminarian
http://chuckcurrie.blogs.com

Best blog:
Low Rent Rat
http://lowrentrat.blogdrive.com

Most deserving of wider recognition:
Thunderstorms in the Imajica
http://thunderstorms.blogdrive.com

Best series:
10 non-policy reasons to vote for Kerry over Bush (a ten-day series leading up to the election), from my own blog:
http://brandonstarr.blogdrive.com/archive/800.html

Best Blog: Daily Kos

Best Writing: Talking Points Memo

Best Post: Terrorism Quiz

Most Humourous Blog: Words for My Enjoyment

Most Humourous Post: My Candy Lies in Wait

Best New Blog: Something Requisitely Witty and Urbane

Best Group Blog: Metafilter (of course)

Most Humorous: Jesus' General

New Blog: Viewropa or James Wolcott

I nominated this before, but I've put together a clearer presentation of the series I'm nominating for Best Series.

That's http://jgrr.blogspot.com/2004/12/koufax-award.html

Thank you.

I would like to make a nomination for...
MOST HUMOROUS POST, I would like to direct your attention to Raznor's "Reality-Based" Rants (http://raznor.blogspot.com/) and his almost-as-chilling-as-the-real-thing November 09, 2004 post:
"Breaking News: Bush Appoints the Dread Lord Cthuhlu as New Attorney General"
It's a scream... quite literally.

I sent in most of my nominations yesterday but I relaly wanted to say that I think Steve Gilliard's series on colonialism in history must be the best series. However I don't know if it will count as much of it is taken from other sources with minimal commentary from him at the end. Please consider it. I only wish I remembered how to make a link. My HTML skills suck.

Best Blog: Eschaton ; DailyKos

Best Series: Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle

Best Group Blog: First Draft

Most Humorous Blog: FafBlog

Best Writing: Talking Points Memo;Riverbend

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Rising Hegemon; Liberal Street Fighter

Best Expert Blog: Informed Comment; Brad Delong

I like Pandagon ;Body & Soul; Rittenhouse Review - But can't figure out what to class them as -

So many that keep me somewhat sane in a very f**ked up world

Damn - forgot Steve Gilliards Colonial Series - sorry vote for that too... so many to vote for...

Best blog: Eschaton

Best writing: Talking Points Memo Josh Marshall

Best Post: Rude Pundit "Requiem for Renquist" 10/26/2004

Best Series: Orcinus "Bush, the Nazis and America"

Best Group Blog: corrente

Most Humorous Blog: Jesus' General

Most Humorous Post: The Talent Show "Bush's Debate Notes"

Best Expert Blog: Brad DeLong

New Blog: pasaudela.blogspot.com

Most Worthy of Greater Recognition: charlotte-streeet.blogspot.com, pasaudela.blogspot.com

Best group blog: www.adamkotsko.com/weblog

I would like to nominate my personal blog: Adamnagourney.com, because I am a Professional Journalist (in fact I am chief political corr for the NYTIMES!) it would not be fair for me to be in the category of best writing. However, I am whimsical and I have a really good sense of fun! so maybe, most humorous?

Also how can my "nag hags" spam this thing so I win!

Nominations:

Best Blog: Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/

Best Writing: Michael Bérubé Online
http://www.michaelberube.com/

Best Post: "Second Night"
http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/second_night/

Best Series: "Hunter Goes Postal: Tucker's 'Jacuzzi Case'" by Hunter on Daily Kos
http://hunter.dailykos.com/

Best Single Issue Blog: Daily Howler on the media
http://www.dailyhowler.com/

Best Group Blog: First Draft
http://www.first-draft.com/

Most Humorous Blog: The Rude Pundit
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

Most Humorous Post: "What John Kerry Should Say, Part 3 (Rude Version)"
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2004/10/what-john-kerry-should-say-part-3-rude.html

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Shrillblog
http://shrillblog.blogspot.com/

Best New Blog: James Wolcott
http://jameswolcott.com/

I know you don't know who I am but I can't help noticing a few comments back on this post about your birthday...which made me want to wish you a happy birthday, Eric. All the best to you and hope this will be a good year.

I don't think I did a nomination for Best Single Issue so I nominate Echidne of the Snakes for Feminism although she occasionally deals with other issues as well. Hope that is acceptable.

First off, some shameless and undeserved self-promotion: Non Tibi Spiro (http://non-tibi-spiro.blogspot.com/) for best new blog.

Secondly, for Best Group blog: A Fistful of Euros (http://www.fistfulofeuros.net/).

For Best Series: A Fistful of Euros for their coverage of the Ukraine elections.

For Best Single Issue: Juan Cole (http://www.juancole.com/)

Best Group: Corrente.

Best Writing: The farmer at the aforementioned Corrente.

Best Single Issue Blog: Trish Wilson's Blog.

Best New Blog, Group Blog and Wider Recognition hsould all go to Political Stategy. they just started in May and have a great line-up with extended analyses. Lots of new blood that definitely deserves a wider shout out.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
mykeru.com

Best New Blog: "Curly Tale of War Pigs".

Just Google this site and you'll be swept away to a place that rails against Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's, the lack of snow in the Midwest, and some pretty good political insight.

Check it out, you won't be disappointed.

Best blog: Daily War News
Best Post: Juan Cole: what if America was Iraq

Best Group: Needlenose
Most Humorous: RudePundit
Most deserving wider recognigion: Fallujah in Pictures
Best expert: Juan Cole

Best commentor: Not Anonymous

best new blog: James Wolcott

best blog: Digby at Hullabaloo

best writing: James Wolcott

most humorous blog: World O' Crap

best expert blog: Juan Cole

Best Series: Orcinus' The Rise of Pseudo-Fascism

I think Josh Marshal just wrote the best post:
Social Security Battle Strategy

Best group blog: Wampum

Best series: Ed Fitzgerald's (Unfutz) meta-meta analysis of the electoral college http://unfutz.blogspot.com/2004/06/ec-update-updated.html

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Veiled 4 Allah

Best blog: Talking Points Memo

Best writing: Daniel Davies, Crooked Timber

Best post: Crooked Timber, Talking rubbish about epidemiology

Best series: Chris Lightfoot on the UK ID cards scheme.

Best group blog: Crooked Timber

Most humorous blog: Chase Me Ladies, I'm in the Cavalry

Most deserving of wider recognition: Explananda

Best Expert Blog: Brad DeLong on Economics.

Best new blog: Chase Me Ladies, I'm in the Cavalry

Thanks, but we're ... not seeking the treasure.

Glad you nom'd v4a.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition & Best New Blog
Patridiot Watch
http://www.patridiots.com

My nominations..

Most Humorous Blog: http://indieish.com/

Most Humorous Post: http://indieish.com/2004/10/08/postcards-from-the-campaign-trail/

love that guy.. I'm so glad he started up again after the election

IMHO...

BEST BLOG: KOS
BEST WRITING: DIGBY @ HULLABALOO
BEST GROUP BLOG: THE ALL SPIN ZONE
HUMOROUS BLOG: THE RUDE PUNDIT

Other must reads include: Blondesense, Jesus' General, Daily Howler, Atrios, and as a side note...Billmon, we miss you.

Best Blog:
http://www.dailykos.com

Best Post:
http://www.eriposte.com/philosophy/fundamentalism/stevenscreek.htm

Best Series:
Eriposte coverage on the Swift Vets:
http://swiftvets.eriposte.com
Eriposte coverage on Vote fraud/suppression:
http://vote2004.eriposte.com

Most Humorous Blog:
http://fafblog.blogspot.com/

Most Deserving of Wider recognition:
http://www.bradblog.com/

I would also suggest a category perhaps on Best Investigative Journalism by a Blog run by a Non-Journalist.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Amendment Nine, without a doubt. Expert writers. Insightful commentary. Most importantly though, provocative, well thought out new ideas for progressive politics. Highly recommended and not in circulation enough.

http://amendmentnine.blogpost.com

Best Blog -- Catch.com (if it wasn't for Catch, I would have never known about a lot of these blogs...)

Best Writing -- Digby (he gives me hope)

Best Post -- Tbogg -- "The Last Interview" (not politcal, but a moving and, at times, funny eulogy)

Best Series -- Jesus' General -- The "Heterosexually yours" letters

Best Group Blog -- Catch (great mix of links and posts from a lot of different people)

Most Humorous Blog -- Tbogg

Most Humorous Post -- Catch's photoshops of the Malkin Internment book

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition -- alicublog (just an amazing and witty writer)

Best Commenter -- Ham from Catch (his lists of 11 are works of art)

Best blog - Daily Kos
Best Series - CHEERS AND JEERS! CHEERS AND JEERS! (by Bill in Portland Maine

Clearly, the best overall blog is:

The Flanstein
http://flanstein.blogspot.com/

Best Blog: Eschaton
Best Writing: Digby @ Hullabaloo
Best Series: Orcinus on The Rise of Pseudo Facism
Best Group Blog: Americablog
Most Humorous Blog: Tbogg
Most Humorous Post: Can't find the link but it has to be the Digby post referencing bukkake....I was in tears over that one.
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole
Best New Blog: James Wolcott

Forgot one.

Best Post: Tbogg on his moving eulogy regarding the loss of his father.

Best Blog: Kevin Drum's Political Animal
Best Writing: Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo
Best Series: Josh Marshall investigating which Republicans backed the "DeLay rule."
Best Single Issue Blog: War In Iraq
Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber
Most Humorous Blog: Fafblog
Most Deserving of Wide Recognition: Ken Sain
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole
Best New Blog: James Wolcott

Gotta self-nominate here for BEST NEW BLOG since I just started my blog, A Better Nation, November 15, a post a day, Monday-Friday, and I need READERS, COMMENTS and VOTES, so come on over!

Bookmark "A Better Nation."

http://abetternation.blogspot.com

Check out my comparison of American capitalism to the Titanic. Check out my take on America's hypocritical spin on sex - prudishness vs. prurience. Sort of wonky, sort of preachy, sort of New Yorkery, sort of high-handed/high road, it's talk of a better nation.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition & Best New Blog: Michael Bérubé Online(http://www.michaelberube.com/)

Most Humorous Blog: Fafblog

Best Writing : Digby (http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/)

Best Blog: http://www.andymatic.com
Best Writing: http://www.superherodesigns.com/journal
Best Series: http://www.dooce.com
Best Single Issue: http://www.michaelmoore.com
Best Humurous Blog: http://www.dooce.com
Wider Recognition: http://www.andymatic.com
Best Expert Blog: http://www.michaelmoore.com
Best New Blog: http://beastmomma.squarespace.com

Here are my nominations in the categories for which I have an opinion. It may look like I'm shilling or spamming for a certain blog, but I'm not. I truly think Orcinus is worthy in several categories. If you had a category for "Most Important Blog", I would nominate it for that, too.

Best Blog
Eschaton. While there are many great blogs that I monitor, only one has consistently been the front-and-center, "must read every day" blog for me in 2004.

Best Writing
Talking Points Memo Not the most humorous, biting, colorful, or flamboyant, but definitely the most clearly and carefully-written blog on the planet, which is very important in these times of deliberate confusion.

Best series
"The Rise of Pseudo Fascism", by Dave Neiwert

Best Single-Issue Blog
David Neiwert's Orcinus, tied with The Daily Howler

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
David Neiwert's Orcinus

Best Expert Blog
David Neiwert's Orcinus

Best Series: The Richard Clarke Review - Road to Surfdom

Best Single Issue Blog: Beautiful Horizons

Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber

Best Expert Blog: War and Piece by Laura Rozen

Best New Blog: Total Information Awareness

Best Commenter: Nabakov - all over the place but mainly at Road to Surfdom

Best Expert Blog:
The Practical Nomad
http://hasbrouck.org/blog

Best Single Issue Blog:
The Practical Nomad
http://hasbrouck.org/blog

(expert left blogging about travel)

Best blog: Atrios

Best writing: Talking Points Memo

Best group blog: Crooked Timber

Most humorous blog: Chase Me Ladies

Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole

Best Single Issue: Chris Correa

Best New Blog: James Wolcott

Best Group Blog: Wampum

Thank you Steve.

You're welcome Eric...My nominations continued:
Most Humorous Blog: Wonkette (I just can't decide these things all at once.)

Koufax nominations continued:
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: "BOG-GOB magazine's home page" at http://members.aol.com/boggob%20/

Best Blog:
Talking Points Memo

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Mahablog

Best Writing: The Common Ills

Best Post: The Common Ills' "When NPR Fails You, Who You Gonna' Call? Not the Ombudsman" (linked to by FAIR)

http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2004/11/when-npr-fails-you-who-you-gonna-call.html

NPR

Best Series: The Common Ills' "Red" State series.
On the money (critiques of reporting) and gave us real people as well. (I feel so sorry for Eli mentioned in the series.)

Best Single Issue Blog: The Daily Howler. Bob Somerby rules!

Best Group Blog: Feministing! The best group blog out there!!!

Most Humorous Blog: Ad Nags!!!! I love this blog! I love "Adam" & "Howie" & "Cokie"!!!

Most Humorous Post: "Coup: Today Show Seizes Control of the New York Times' Front Page!"
http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2004/12/coup-today-show-seizes-control-of-new.html

TODAY

It's funny because it's true! And note the ref to the puff piece the Times did on Kerik. Bet they regret that now.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: The Common Ills. This is the best blog! It's saved my life (truly!) many, many times. Funny, informative, common sense based.

Best Expert Blog: Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

Best New Blog: The Common Ills of course! :)

Best Commenter no idea but for laughs I'll toss out Kit Seeyle with her "wonderful" commentary during the debates (posted on NY Times web site).
Kit was so clueless and it was worth many laughs to see her scramble in real time to figure out what people were talking about.

Best Blog written by my son but it's damn good anyway: http://TheTalentShow.org

Best Post
Eric Muller's posts on Michelle Malkin's book at Is That Legal?

Best Writing
Eric Muller's posts on Michelle Malkin's book at Is That Legal?

Best Blog: Dailykos.com
Best New Blog: Politicalstrategy.org
Wider Recognition: Politicalstrategy.org
Best Group Blog: Leftcoaster.com

Best New Blog - www.michaelberube.com

Most humorous blog: Jesus’ General, because patriotboy converts passionate anger into satire with great literary style and wit; because there’s not an iota of the self-congratulatory preciousness that infects other blogs; and because there is not the tedious, time-wasting, itsy-bitsy parsing of text and argument back and forth that has little appeal except to the dick-waggers and text-parsers themselves.

Funniest post:

Welfare, Socialism, and the U.N. Oh my!
http://www.reload.ws/blog/2004/10/welfare-socialism-and-un-oh-my.html

Best New Blog and
Best Expert Blog:

Rahul Mahajan's http://www.empirenotes.org
Excellent coverage of the American Empire in all of its forms

Best Single Issue Blog:
http://www.dahrjamail.com
Dahr Jamail's priceless coverage of the War in Irag, with most mainstream media either embedded or getting most of their information from Pentagon press aides

Best New Blog: Brilliant at Breakfast

Best Humorous Blog: Then Fuck You, Jack! The Life and Art of Vern

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Low Rent Rat
http://lowrentrat.blogdrive.com/

Best Series
Brandon Starr's 10 non-policy reasons to vote for Kerry over Bush
http://brandonstarr.blogdrive.com/

Best New Blog
Crooksandliars

Best Writing: Talking Points Memo/Ornicus
Funniest: Rude Pundit
Best Blog: Daily Kos
Best single theme: Talk Left
Best Group Blog: Americablog
MOST DESERVING OF WIDER RECOGNITION: Suburban Guerilla

Best Blog
Talking Points Memo
I almost didn't nominate this blog since there are no comments or trackbacks, but the truth is it's the first one I visit every day.

Best Writing
The Bull Moose
Not sure if he'd describe himself as liberal, but his writing is superb.

Best Series
RTP's Torture Inc.
I'll go out on a limb of shameless self-promotion here and nominate my own series on abuse and torture in the "war on terrorism".

Best Single Issue Blog
Dispatch From The Trenches
Consistently good writing on "the class war by workers on the front lines"

Best Group Blog
The Blogging of the President

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Streak'sBlog
Liberal commentary with a regular focus on the Christian right - well written and thoughtful.

Best Expert Blog
Brad DeLong
He demystifies economics and cuts through Republican framing for the non-economists among us.

Best New Blog
Random Thoughts on Politics - launched in March 2004.
On the advice of Wampum, I'm again wading into the pool of shameless self-promotion.

Best Group Blog: Corrente

Best Blog: Daily Kos. I like Atrios better than I like Kos, but when you consider the value added by the Kos Kommunity I think that Daily Kos edges out Eschaton overall.

Best Writing: Fafblog! "Dying is easy; comedy is hard."

Best Post: I was inclined to nominate my own election-eve post, "Why I Care," which was the best thing I wrote all year. In all honesty, however, nothing that I wrote - or read - was better than Tbogg's brilliant, beautiful "Exit Interview." Hands down, no contest, the best thing I've read in a long, long while.

Best Series: Again, I was tempted to nominate my own weekly series about beer, "Beer Goggles," but unfortunately I haven't kept up with it for several months now, so...nevermind. Therefore, my nomination goes to Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness' semi-regular caption contests, which serve as a model for caption contests throughout West Blogtopia.

Best Single Issue Blog: Riverbend's Baghdad Burning, assuming that "living under the yoke of occupation" qualifies as a single issue.

Best Group Blog: Pandagon, or the american street.

Most Humorous Blog: Lots of good humorous bloggers out there, but the best of them are (in order) Fafblog!, Fafblog!, Fafblog!, and Fafblog!

Most Humorous Post: Whatever they're posting at Fafblog! right now.

Best Expert Blog: I never understand what Brad DeLong is talking about, so I assume he must be an expert. And he's really, really good. So I guess that makes his blog the best expert blog.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition; Best New Blog: Even though I shamelessly begged my readers to nominate me for one or both of these awards, so far no joy. So I guess I'll have to do it myself: I humbly, humbly nominate Proof Through the Night for one or both of these awards.

Best Commenter: You mean people actually leave comments at some blogs? What will they think of next!

Best blog:
Hullabaloo by Digby

Best writing:
James Wolcott

Most humorous:
World O'Crap

Best new blog:
Bob Harris

Most deserving of wider recognition:
The Rude Pundit

Most Humorous Post: Kevin Drum (The Washington Monthly: Political Animal): M&Ms.

I agree with most of what Elaine said so here are mine.

Best Writing: The Common Ills
COMMONILLS

Best Post: The Common Ills' "When NPR Fails You, Who You Gonna' Call? Not the Ombudsman" (linked to by FAIR)
This was the talk of Thanksgiving day and weekend. The only hard hitting blogging coming out of that weekend.

http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2004/11/when-npr-fails-you-who-you-gonna-call.html

NPRSUCKS

Best Series: The Common Ills' "Red" State series.
The only one who got it right is my input there. (Though I agree with Elaine it was hard not to feel bad for Eli.)

Best Single Issue Blog: The Daily Howler.

Best Group Blog: Feministing. I'll go with that, I'm not to keen on any group blog.

Most Humorous Blog: Ad Nags I agree, it's wicked funny

Most Humorous Post: "Coup: Today Show Seizes Control of the New York Times' Front Page!"
http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2004/12/coup-today-show-seizes-control-of-new.html

TODAYCOUP

It nails Today and NYT! Priceless parody!

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: The Common Ills. A breath of fresh air, the real deal. Nuff said.

Best Expert Blog: Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

Best New Blog: The Common Ills

Best Commentator -- not voting here; no one knocked me out this year wish I could give an award to Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! for something. They rock.

best blog

Blogpulse Dot Com...

There, I even spelled it out for you.

Best Writing
The Examining Room of Dr. Charles.
A personal, poetic, patient-oriented lefty look at our health care system from an idealist in the trenches.

Best Commenter: Steve Plonk

Best Writing
James Wolcott. He's one of the few professionals, and it shows -- not to impugn the egalitarian spirit of the whole blogging thing, but the guy's a little better with an epigram than, say, Josh Marshall.

Humorous Blog
Fafblog! is not just the same snarky sarcasm that the other funny blogs traffic in -- it's brilliantly written satire. It's what Twain would be doing with a computer

Wider Recognition
AND THEN... is beautifully written, thoughful, articulate, and smart as hell.

Expert:
Michael Bérubé is funny and pretty darn smart. I assume "expert" means "educated" or "with a degree in something."

New:
Mine. Buck Hill. Why? Because I'm really very nice when you get to know me. And I once picked a fight with copy-editors.

Best Commenter:
All of them at Ad Nags for the funniest inside-baseball bitchy media/political-junkie joking in town. And the confused people who think it's real.

I think Moi from bloggg should be most Deserving of Wider Recognition because of her autism advocacy.

Most humorous blog overall: Alicublog

http://alicublog.blogspot.com/

Also Most Deserving of Wider Recognition.

Best Blog: Hullabaloo
Best Writing: Hullabaloo
Best Single Issue Blog: Today in Iraq
Most Humorous Blog: Jesus' General
Most Humorous Post: Because One Must (from Hullabaloo)
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Blogbites
Best Expert Blog: Informed Comment
Best New Blog: James Wolcott
Best Commenter: Albanian Sworn Virgin

Best Blog
Pandagon

Best Writing
Tom Ball at Political Strategy

Best Series
Bill Hare - Media Snake Oil
- Media Snake Oil: Bush Praised as a Great Debater
- Media Snake Oil: Bush Compared to FDR and Praised for Alleged Inner Security
- Media Snake Oil: Pilger Reveals Corporate Media Monopoly
- Media Snake Oil: Fox's Republican Spin Machine Exposed
- Media Snake Oil: Kerry Will Win and The Bush Spin Will Begin
- Media Snake Oil: The Media Spinners Run True to Form
- Media Snake Oil: The Frightened Republicans are Spinning
- Media Snake Oil: Has the Bush-Media Influence Begun to Lose Control?
- Media Snake Oil: For Bush The Strategy is "The Best Defense is a Good Offense"

Best Single Issue Blog
Talk Left

Best Group Blog
Political Strategy

Most Humorous Blog
Opinions You Should Have

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Political Strategy

Best Expert Blog
Informed Comment

Best New Blog
Political Strategy

Oops-one modification to my nominations. The link to this post in the series from Bill Hare should be

Media Snake Oil: Pilger Reveals Corporate Media Monopoly

sorry, I forgot Best Post

The Mourning After: Where Do We Go From Here?

Possibly the best post I've ever read at a time when it was sorely needed.

Single Issue: Ed Hasbrouk's The Practical Nomad covering Freedom to Travel, and Privacy Rights in travel

Most humorous post:

Kerry Chooses J. Christ as VP Candidate; Rove Responds at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/7/4/14145/52885

*Best Blog Daily Kos
*Best Writing kid oakland at Daily Kos
*Best Post Abortion: The Choice I Made
*Best Series Hunter Goes Postal I, Hunter Goes Postal II, Hunter Goes Postal III. Regarding Tucker Carlson and his execrable dismissal of the Valerie Lakey case (won by John Edwards) as a "Jacuzzi case," by Hunter at Daily Kos.
*Best Group Blog Liberal Streetfighter.
*Most Humorous Blog The Rude Pundit.
*Most Deserving of Recognition Sisyphus Shrugged
*Best New Blog James Wolcott
*Best Commenter musing85 at Daily Kos

Best Blog: Instapundit
Best Group Blog: Volokh Conspiracy
Most Humorous blog: Protein Wisdom
Best Writing: Josh Marshall

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition Pam's House Blend

Best Blog:
Jesus's General - Always funny, consistent, and creative.
Best Writing:
Anna at Annatopia.com. She's profane at times, but wears her heart on her sleeve (or in this case, her blog). More importantly, she's usually an interesting read. For examples, see this, or her series of posts about her evolving views on gay marriage.
Best Post:
Jeeni Criscenzo's post about the protest pen in Boston: This is What Democracy Looks Like. It shook me to my core.
Best Series:
Annatopia's three part series on her decision to have an abortion. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Best Single Issue Blog:
Alas a Blog (feminism)
Best Group Blog:
Burnt Orange Report
Most Humorous Blog:
Ad Nags, the "diary" of Adam Nagourney
Most Humorous Post:
I can't decide - too many to choose from.
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Rising Hegemon
Best Expert Blog:
Juan Cole
Best New Blog:
Liberal Street Fighter
Best Commenter:
w00t at Atrios. You have to love boobies.

Also, for next year will you consider adding a Most Missed Blog category? Several really good ones (such as Billmon and Hesiod) shuttered their doors this year.

Best overall blog - POLITICAL STRATEGY
www.politicalstrategy.org/

Best writing - BILL HARE (Political Strategy)

Best post - TOP 35 TRENDS THAT SAY KERRY WILL TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE IN NOV. - by Tom Ball, Oct.20/04

best blog:
counterspin central
best writing:
whiskey bar
best post:
This is What Democracy Looks Like by Jeeni Criscenzo or curse of the prophet by attaturk
best series:
part one
part two
part three
annatopia's series on her abortion
single issue blog:
informed comment
group blog:
rising hegemon
humorous blog:
jesus' general
homurous post:
too hard to choose
deserving wider recognition:
annatopia and prairie angel
expert blog:
informed comment
new blog:
rising hegemon
commentor:
attaturk-of rising hegemon, seen in comments everywhere.

BEST BLOG
Roger Ailes Blogspot

BEST SERIES
Roger Ailes’ - - Grand Old Police Blotter - - series. Want to see how the Republicans, claiming virtue and moral uprightness as their sole provenance, really behave? Check out the Grand Old Police Blotter stories at Roger Ailes.

MOST HUMOROUS BLOG
Roger Ailes.

BEST WRITING
James Wolcott. Talking Points Memo.

MOST DESERVING OF WIDER RECOGNITION
Roger Ailes Blogspot.

BEST EXPERT BLOG
Juan Cole, EmpireNotes.

BEST UNUSUAL BLOG (I know you do not have this as a category. I think it should be one)
I would put Busy Busy Busy. Journalist photos placed next to Elton Beards pithy shorter short versions of various articles by William Safire, David Brooks, Krauthammer etc.

James & Elayne are right. Here are my choices.

Best writing: The Common Ills
COMMONILLS

Here's why. Media Matters wrote about NPR using Robert Kagan to comment on John Kerry due to readers' tips. Readers tipped them off that Kagan was married to Victoria Nuland who works for Cheney (deputy advisor on national security).
Read Media Matters article on Kagan -- they don't mention his conflict of interest. The only blog that made this conflict of interest an issue (and held NPR Ombudsman Dvorkin accountable) was The Common Ills.
When everyone was wringing their hands over "Red" state, "Blue" state, only The Common Ills bothered to speak to people in the "Red" states and discover that the Dem party wasn't putting money there. Not just for advertising but even for county headquarters. (This is the Eli thing that Elayne & James mention. He's an elderly man who used to be able to interact there but the Dems didn't even open one in his county this election.)
No one commented on Adam Nagourney & Janet Elder's summary of the NY Times/CBS Poll in terms of the fact that N&E got it wrong. They were selective with what they included. No one even bothered to comment on the questions used in the poll which also had problems. Again, no one but The Common Ills.
They are the only one picking up on Oleg D. Kalugin's comments that have to do with an unsolved murder.
They are the only one pointing out that the Times does not have a policy that when a moderate leaves, you replace that op-ed writer with a moderate. So this notion that Safire means we need another conservative is bunk.
I could go on and on (and feel like I already have). This is the best blog going on right now.

Best Post: I'll vote for Common Ills "When NPR Fails You, Who You Gonna' Call? Not the Ombudsman" just because others have. Personally, I could easily go with the four part installment debunking the NY Times/CBS poll or this one but I'll defer to Elayne and James.
NPRSUX

Best Series: "Red" States series of The Common Ills

PARTI

PARTII

PARTIII

PARTIV

PARTV

I love all of the sections in this series but especially the going over Common Ills gave NYT's Jodi Wilgoren for focusing more on her wedding than on reporting on the Kerry campaign. Loved it so much I'll quote the beginning of the Wilgoren section from Part IV:

"My engagement was first announced on Howard Dean's campaign Web log. I addressed and stamped my save-the-date cards at a hotel in Washington while John Kerry spent a slow weekend attending the dedication of the World War II memorial. "

On that self-important note, so begins Wilgoren's piece (in the style section of the Times) entitled "View: The Wedding Candidate on the Trail" (October 24, 2004).

Make no mistake, there were hardships Wilgoren had to endure to do . . . well, her job:

"Like the Tuesday evening in October when Mr. Kerry's motorcade pulled up to a hotel in Colorado and I filed the third rewrite of that day's bickering over Iraq from the lobby, only to find on my vibrating cellphone the distraught voice of Julie, the manager of the Chinatown restaurant where we were having our night-before-nuptials dinner. The good news, as I told Gary long-distance a few minutes later: 20 percent off, a free Champagne toast, and dinner on the house as soon as I was back in town. The bad? Someone had double-booked the party room with the dramatic downtown view, so our 100 out-of-town guests would be shunted to the L-shaped dining area across the hall."

Bickering over Iraq? That about sums up the depth of reporting she "filed." A minor issue to the country (the seating of Wilgoren's guests) is explained in more detail than any of her "bickering" over Iraq coverage on the campaign trail. And why? Is her personal event far more important to the country, the Times and the world than what goes on in a war torn country where casualities mount with every week? Media damage.

and this section too:

I mean, I'm glad that Wilgoren reports that other reporters on the campaign trail understood when they heard her on the phone having "arguments about procession order, catering costs and what we are going to do about a last name, they are also a ready-made focus group for all my bridal angst." But I'm not really sure such a confession improves one's view of the working press.

Did no one ever holler, "Hey Wilgoren, pipe down! I'm trying to work here! You know this election is a little more important to the country than your wedding!"

Hell, I love the whole thing! The Common Ills nailed Wilgoren on her wedding planner versus her notes on the Kerry campaign. The whole series was a must read but if you loathe Wilgoren like I do, Part IV is a must read!

Best Single Issue Blog: The Daily Howler is da bomb!

HOWLER

You can't participate in the social security discussion without reading the Howler.

Most Humorous Blog: Ad Nags. But mainly for "That's Kooky Cokie to you!" Check out the first response on this one

COKIE

Most Humorous Post: Again, I'm torn between two. "Bullies Without Borders" from today or "Coup: Today Show Seizes Control of the New York Times' Front Page!" both from The Common Ills. Since Elayne & James went with "Coup," I will too.
COUP

It's funny, it's true. Love the line about when NYT is bored with being a paper and decides to cross dress as a tabloid!

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: The Common Ills!
COMMONILLS

Is anyone else even following the revelation that
Oleg D. Kalugin apparently let slip to the NYT in Weds.' paper regarding the assination of Georgi I. Markov? Nope. Which is why I go to The Common Ills first thing every time.

MARKOV

Best Expert Blog: Dahr Jamail absolutely. He's unembedded and doing a dangerous job. Give it up to Dahr!

DAHR
Best Expert Blog: Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

Best New Blog: The Common Ills

Agreed!

COMMONILLS

Did anyone else go through Simon Rosenberg's blogs, interviews and writings? No, only Common Ills when they came up with "Questions for the Questionable Simon Rosenberg." There's a reason Atrios & Kos aren't trusted. They initially tried to pooh-pah the Ohio vote and tell us to move on and they've forced DLC Simon down our throats. (He's DLC as late as May of this year and only The Common Ills told you that.)

SIMON

A lot of blogs have gotten long in the tooth and seem to be following the Cokie Roberts path of "I know best." That's troubling when you consider that we make or break them by our visits. But they've grown very fond of the limelight and apparently are hesitant to take on Rosenberg or Kagan or whomever for fear of not getting booked on Air America. The Common Ills tells it like it is. And how many bloggers will admit "I could be wrong"? You hear that on CI all the time. Ain't no David Corn in dat house!

This is the blog to read. FAIR, Ms. Musing, Liberal Oasis and Buzzflash have all linked to at least one item from this blog and it's only two months old. (I learned about via buzz when buzz linked to the NPR story. Wish there was an award that could go to Buzzflash or Thom Hartman or Maureen Farrell.)

It deserves the awards but even if doesn't get them, I'd recommend everyone bookmark this site and start following it. Even my journalism prof pushes this site. If you're left, this is your blog!

Best Post Top 21 Pieces of Evidence that Show Iraq is only the First Step to 'Reshaping the Middle East': A Reference for Seekers of Truth

Best Writer Tom Ball (Political Strategy)

Best New Blog

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

Must have been something wrong with my links in the prior post.

'Best New Blog' and 'Most Deserving of Wider Recognition' are both Political Strategy (www.politicalstrategy.org) Hell, I'm even throwing them in for 'Best Group Blog'

One last nomination for me:

Best Writing: Suburban Guerrilla

Best Blog: (tie) Talking Points Memo, and wood s lot
Best Writing: (tie) Michael Bérubé and Ken Layne
Best Expert Blog: (tie)Beautiful Horizons (Latin America), and Ginmar of A View From A Broad (Soldiering in Iraq)
Best Single Issue Blog: (tie) Electoral-Vote Projection (polling the 2004 election) and How To Save The World (environment)
Best Humor Blog: (tie)Opinions You Should Have, and Ayn Clouter's Blog
Most Humorous Post: "Iraxas" at Al Qaebong (permalinks broken, scroll to Oct 11)
Best Group Blog: (tie) The American Street, and Seeing The Forest
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition (tie) Suburban Guerrilla, and The Niggerati Network
Best New Blog of 2004: (tie) Legal Fiction, BlondeSense, and The American Street
Best Series: Jenny Greenleaf, chronicling her Democratic delegate duties from July-Dec at The American Street
Best Commenter: eRobin, who now blogs at Fact-Esque

Best Blog: Talking Points Memo, who does the kind of work I think professional journalists ought to do, and Digby, who does the kind of work I think bloggers ought to do.

If there were an MVP award I expect I'd think Markos and Atrios should split it, because their readers have made them real players in the next cycle, which is good for all of us.

Best Writing: Digby, Body and Soul, Making Light, Rittenhouse, the Farmer at Corrente, Kip at Long Story, Dr. Rivka at Respectful of Otters

Best Expert Blog: Brad deLong and I kind of like Emerging Democratic Majority

Best Single Issue Blog: Talk Left

Best Humor Blog: World O'Crap or Fafblog

Best Group Blog: The American Street

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Susie at Suburban Guerrilla or Roy at Alicublog

Best New Blog of 2004: The American Street

Best Series: The Sideshow on voting irregularities

Best Post: Dr. Rivka on abortion, TBogg on his dad

Best Commenter: norbizness. I know he blogs too, but his comments just make me smile.

Blog Nominees:

Best Group Blog: The American Street
http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/

Most Humorous Blog: American Idle
http://www.americanidle.net

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: American Idle
http://www.americanidle.net

Best Writing: Neal Pollack
http://www.nealpollack.com

New Blog:
Michael Berube
http://www.michaelberube.com/

Most Humorous Blog:
Fafblog!
http://fafblog.blogspot.com/

Best Writing:
Talking Points Memo

Brad DeLong for Best Expert

SocialIronsides Speaks at www.socialironsides.com for the following:

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Best New Blog

Best new blog, group blog, and blog deserving of wider recognition:
Political Strategy

Best Blog: Kos

Best Writing: Digby

Best Group Blog: Pandagon

Best Expert Blog: Informed Comment

Most Humerous Blog: Jesus General

Most Deserving of Wider Recogniton: Suburban Guerilla

Best New Blog: James Wolcott

Best Blog: Atrios

Best New Blog: James Wolcott

Best Group Blog: Tapped

Best Writing: Matthew Yglesias

Most Humorous Blog -- Fafblog

Best Group Blog -- The American Street

Most Deserving of Wider Recogniton: Left I on the News, http://lefti.blogspot.com/

Best Group Blog:
AMERICAN STREET

Deserves Wider Recognition:
IDDYBUD

Best New Blog:
JUST A BUMP IN THE BELTWAY

Best Commenter:
ANONYMOSES

Best Expert Blog:
Juan Cole

Digby's Hullaballoo! For best blog
and James Wolcott for best writer

Best Blog: Roger Ailes

Best Writing: James Wolcott

Best Group Blog: Pandagon

Best Expert Blog: Empire Notes

Most Humerous Blog:(tie) Roger Ailes, Sadly, No!

Most Deserving of Wider Recogniton: Roger Ailes

Best New Blog: James Wolcott, Michael Berube.

Best Blog
Eschaton

Best Writing
James Wolcott
Best Post
David Sirota: The Da Vinci Code for Democrats
Best Series
Oldman's posts on BOPNews
Best Single Issue Blog
Juan Cole's Informed Comment
Best Group Blog
AmericaBLOG
Most Humorous Blog
www.Iscrewrepublicans.blogspot.com
Most Humorous Post
www.fuckthesouth.com
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Rising Hegemon
Best Expert Blog
Informed Comment
Best New Blog
Rising Hegemon
Best Commenter
?

Best post: 'The Bush two-step: moral clarity vs legal niceties' Road to Surfdom
http://www.roadtosurfdom.com/surfdomarchives/002446.php

Best Group Blog:
The American Street
(just look at who the contributors are!)

Best Commentator:
eRobin

Deserves More Attention:
Rivka

Ok, I'm going to self-nominate for best new blog (Blush) Half Changed World -- http://elb.typepad.com/halfchangedworld

For best blog: Alas, A Blog -- http://www.amptoons.com/blog/

For best single issue blog: The Well-Timed Period
http://thewelltimedperiod.blogspot.com/

Best Blog: Talking Points Memo

Best Group Blog: Political Animal

Best New Blog: James Wolcott

Most Humorous Blog: World O'Crap

Best Series: World O'Crap's: "Townhall Review" and "Deep Thoughts by Peggy Noonan"

I'd like to nominate AngryBear (http://angrybear.blogspot.com/) as best blog and most deserving of wider recognition. These posters are some of the best I have coem across on economic issues.

Best Blog: Roger Ailes

Best Writing: James Wolcott

Best Group Blog: Rising Hegemon
best Writing - Digby
Best Series - Townhall Review (World O'Crap)
Best Expert Blog: Empire Notes

Most Humerous Blog:jesus's general

Most Deserving of Wider Recogniton: Rising Hegemon

Best New Blog: James Wolcott

Jesus General - Most Humorous (without a doubt, no lo contesto) - The true, focused like-a-laser beam realistic sarcasm on what be swept up in the Rapture creates the bests comments on the web.

dneiwert - Ornicus. Nothing holds a candle to the essay on fascism, and this energizer bunny just keeps on giving.

DailyKos - a great community (THIS IS NOT A COMMUNITY!)

Steve Gilliard - he writes back, he responds, and when he's on a roll, watch out. Why Google?

Before I get to my nominations in the regular categories, here are some new category suggestions:

Best Original Reporting:
Talking Points Memo

Best Meme Source:
Memeorandum
The Daou Report
Cursor

Most Rational Righty:
Regions of Mind  

Best Political Poems and/or Song Parodies
Steve Bates' Yellow Doggerel Democrat
Ayn Clouter
Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario in Buzzflash
my own Mad Kane's Notables

And now to the regular categories:

Best Writing
James Wolcott
Body And Soul
Bull Moose

Best Single Issue Blog:
An Old Soul (Education)
Media Law (Media Law)
MsMag   (Feminism)

Best Group Blog:
American Street
Lean Left

Most Humorous Blog:
James Wolcott
Ayn Clouter
Berube
skippy the bush kangaroo
my own Mad Kane's Notables

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Steve Bates' Yellow Doggerel Democrat
skippy the bush kangaroo
Scaramouche
Sisyphus
Iddybud
All Hat No Cattle
Blah3.com
Lean Left
BlondeSense

Best Expert Blog:
Talk Left  
Media Law

Best New Blog
James Wolcott
Higher Pie Productions
Bull Moose  
Majikthise
America Blog

Best Commenter:
Steve Bates of the Yellow Doggerel Democrat

Best Blog: KOS
Best Writing: TalkingPointsMemo, David Corn
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole - Informed Comment
Best Humor Blog: Bartcop's blog
Best Group Blog: Corrente
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: thetalentshow.org

Best Writing: Mahablog

im nominate annatopia blog for best writing:

annatopia blog

goddamer link html isnt work.

>:(

Best Blog: The All Spin Zone

Fast growing, intelligent, down-home venue for ranting and contemplation, with great commentors and a persistent call for visitors to get involved in the struggle for change.

Best Writing: Farmer at Corrente

Mixes the personal with the political, the spiritual and the humorous in an easy-reading style that's infectious. The other six Corrente contributors are great, too.

Best Post: Richard Cranium's Perspective Evolution at the All Spin Zone

Great invocation of George Carlin in an analysis of the "nuances of the English language" in our politically charged times. Richard is my favorite blog presence, bar none.

Best Series: David Niewert's The Rise of Pseudo Fascism at Orcinus

Seven-part series that really nails the quality and quantity of American fascism during the Reign of Bush II.

Best Single Issue Blog: Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

Gut-wrenching, on-the-ground reporting from in and around Fallujah.

Most Humorous Blog: Jesus' General

The General is our secret weapon against Freepers everywhere.

Most Humorous Post: Rude Pundit's Why Bill O'Reilly Ought To Be Sodomized With a Falafel

You just have to read Rude Pundit; there's no describing his rants. Not workplace safe.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Spontaneous Arising

Self-plug for a blog that focuses on social justice, offbeat cultural expressions and nondenominational spirituality in roughly equal measures.

Best Expert Blog: Brad DeLong

Economics mixed with progressive ranting. Fun to read the comments, too.

Best New Blog: James Wolcott

He's a pro, and he's also a right-on biographer of our times. James is one of the people I think of when I realize that left-leaners are much, much smarter than the vast majority of wingers.

Best Commentor: Subaki at the All Spin Zone

King of links, tireless fighter against electoral fraud, expert in progressive dissent. Recently promoted to the front page, without a single complaint from the rest of the gallery...;)

Best Group Blog: 12th Harmonic

An up-and-coming community that is currently building a webring out of oft-linked blogs. Brings a British flavour to the struggle against Bush's forever wars.

Best Blog - Annatopia

Best Writing- Annatopia

Best Rack - Annatopia

Best New Blog:
I'm Not One to Blog, But.... -- smart, snappy, lefty commentary on the social and political scene, plus baseball, movies, music, poetry, and photos of two supercool greyhounds every Friday.

Best Post:
"George Will Make Facile, Boneheaded Arguments" at I'm Not One to Blog, But....

im also nominator majority report radio blog for best comunity.

Best Writer: Annatopia

Best Blog: Air America's Majority Report Blog

I nominate http://www.isthatlegal.org/ for best blog. Through reading it over the past year, I have literally grown as an American--the good kind! Eric Muller's musings and arguments are always insightful, well written and intellectually provoking.

Best Writer: Annatopia

Best Writer: Annatopia

Best Blog: Annatopia.com

Best Blog:
Daily Kos
Best Series:
Annatopia series on abortion:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Best Blog: annatopia.com

Best Writing: annatopia

annatopia's Writing: part one, part two, and part three.

Best Blog: Daily Kos (in terms of content, it's actually a tie with Atrios, but Scoop usability gives Kos the edge)

Best Writing: Digby... best cut-to-the-bone analysis, anyway

Best Series: Cheers & Jeers at Kos, courtesy of Bill in Portland Maine (I can't skip funny stuff in a tragic world)

Best Group Blog: TAPPED

Most Humorous Blog: Jesus' General

Best Expert Blog: Brad Delong's

Best New Blog: Wolcott

Best Commenter: cmdicely, who pops up in a few places, followed by Maryscott o'connor at Kos

Best Blog
http://www.dailykos.com/

Best Expert Blog
http://www.juancole.com/

Best Series
http://archives.annatopia.com/000679.html
http://archives.annatopia.com/000680.html
http://archives.annatopia.com/000714.html

Best New Blog
http://www.bobharris.com/

Best Commenter
http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/
Patrioterer

Most Humorous Post
http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/archives/001331.php
Patrioterer (Okay, Patrioterer is a commenter, but the "MARAJUWANA BUTTSEX ISLAND" comment deserves greater recognition)

Best Writing: Digby

Best Series: The Rise of Pseudo Fascism - Orcinus

Most Humorous Blog: Jesus' General

Most Humorous Series: Left Behind Series - Slacktivist

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Slacktivist

Best Expert Blog: Brad DeLong

Best blog: World O'Crap

Most humourous blog: World O'Crap

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: World O'Crap

Best Blog
http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/

Best Writing
http://www.jameswolcott.com/

Best Series
Colonial Warfare
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/

Best Single Issue Blog
http://www.freewayblogger.com/

Best Group Blog
http://corrente.blogspot.com

Most Humorous Blog
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/

Best Expert Blog
http://www.juancole.com/

Best New Blog
http://alicublog.blogspot.com/

Best New is definitely Wolcott

Best Blog: Matthew Yglesias

Best Writing: Digby's Hullabaloo

Best Post: Digby's A Very Old Story

Best Single Issue Blog: Eduwonk

Best Group Blog: Pandagon (shameless self-plug)

Most Humorous Blog: Fafblog!

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Brad Plumer

Best New Blog: Here's What's Left

Best Commenter: Kevin Drum

Best Series: (tie) "America's Worst Mother," TM & © TBogg, and the Christian Education meme at Jesus' General.

Best Recurring Bits: Townhall reviews; Nooners Delusions/Jack Handey @ World O'Crap

Best Cat Blogging: World O'Crap

Best Dark Other-Realm Deity (With Lovecraft-Sized Snark) Blog: Call Of Cthulhu http://callofcthulhu.blogspot.com/

Best Up & Comer: Rogue Planet http://rogueplanet.blogspot.com/
(Now with COMMENTS!)

Best Humor/Satire Blog: Jesus' General http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

Best General-Purpose Humor/Sociological Snark: World O'Crap http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/

Best Real-Life Shit Hitting The Fan: TraumaCity http://www.traumacity.blogspot.com/

Best Blog-ISH-type Site for Techno Geeks: b3ta.com

Best Wicked Bitch Blog: punkrockgirl http://punkrockspoiled.blogspot.com/

Best Soap-Opera-In-A-Teacup: http://www.jadecafe.blogspot.com/

Best Serious Blog: http://americablog.blogspot.com/

Best Guerilla Activism Blog: FreewayBlogger.com

Best Overall Blog: Nuh-uh. You can't make me choose. Nope. There are too many good ones to name JUST one. Hey, I went to public school in the '70s --- I don't HAVE to choose, damn you!

Best Commenter?

Yeah, right, like I'm humble.

Blog - Desert Island Boy
Writing - Desert Island Boy
Post - All in on the Pocket Aces
Series - The Al-Khawaja Affair
Single Issue - Swing State Project
Group - Fistful of Euros
Humorous Blog - Chronicles of Hectica
Humorous Post - O! To be Evangellically Correct
Deserving of Wider Recognition - Desert Island Boy
Expert - Informed Comment
New Blog - Desert Island Boy (since October 2004)
Commenter - Steve the American (on Mahmood's Den, you'll love this guy, he's a right wing nutjob!)

I realize that HTML has been disabled, there fore the links will all be posted on my blog at the following post
http://desertislandboy.blogs.com/home/2004/12/2004_koufax_awa.html#comments

Best Blog: Talking Points Memo

Best Writing: James Wolcott

Best Series: David Neiwert "the Rise of Pseudo Fascism"

Best Single Issue Blog: Riverbend's Baghdad's Burning

Best Group Blog: First Draft

Most Humorous Blog: Rising Hegemon

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Dohiyi Mir, Steve Bates Yellow Doggerel Democrat, Scooter's Freakin' Wicked Weblog

Best Expert Blog: Arms and Influence

Best Commenter: WOOT

Best Blog: Daily Kos

Best Writing: Orcinus

Best Post: Belle Waring's By the Power of Stipulation

Best Series: Michael Berube's Republican Convention series
First Night
Second Night
Live From New York
Third Night
The Morning After
Last Night

Best Single Issue Blog: Chris Mooney

Best Group Blog: Pandagon

Most Humorous Blog: Michael Berube

Blog Deserving Wider Recognition: Legal Fiction

Best Expert Blog: TPM

Best New Blog: Legal Fiction

I don't know if my group blog is necessarily best, but it's pretty good, and I think deserves wider recognition. It's a new one this year, too, so I offer it for both best new blog and blog most deserving of wider recognition.

Approximately Perfect.

For most humorous, I say check out The Game and How We Played it.

Thanks.

Yes, after reading a lot of the nominees, I do consider it important to honor the writers on our team.

Best Blog: (tie) Talking Points Memo, and The American Street
Best Writing: (tie) I'll give one to Digby at Hullaballoo, one to Jeanne at Body & Soul, and consider this: with Digby, Julia of Sisyphus Shrugged, Nichael Berube, Jesus General, Fafblog's members, Echidne, Melanie of Just a Bump on the Beltway, Dave Johnson of Seeing the Forest, Barbara of Mahablog, Mark Kleiman, Tom Burka and several equally good others .... and earlier this year, Jeralyn of Talk Left, Bill Scher of Liberal Oasis, Susie of Suburban Guerrilla, Emma of Late Night Thoughts, South Knox Bubba, I certainly think The American Street deserves one for Best Blog Writing. (What, do I need to recruit James Wolcott and Jeanne too to make the point?)

Best Expert Blog: (tie)I think the folks at Labor Blog deserve one, Charles Kuffner deserves one for coverage of Texas politics, SKBubba for Tennessee Politics, Beautiful Horizons for Latin America coverage, and it's time Jack Balkin wins one for Law.

Best Single Issue Blog: How To Save The World (environment)

Best Humor Blog: Very tough call with all the humorists on our team including Jesus' General and Fafblog and Michael Berube. So I'm going to spread the love elsewhere a bit and make it a (tie) for Tom Burka of Opinions You Should Have, and Ayn Clouter's Blog and TBOGG.

Most Humorous Post: I have so many here, I can't choose one.

Best Group Blog: (tie) The American Street, Seeing The Forest, The Left Coaster, Pacific Views, Best of the Blogs, Wampum and Political Puzzle.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition (tie) Suburban Guerrilla, Norwegianity, Legal Fiction, Cool Patience, The Niggerati Network, Negrophile,MouseMusings and Sisyphus Shrugged.

Best New Blog of 2004: (tie) Legal Fiction, Fafblog, BlondeSense, and The American Street

Best Series: I gotta go with what Fang Shwee said: "Jenny Greenleaf, chronicling her Democratic delegate duties from July-Dec at The American Street"

Best Post: TBOGG's tribute to his Dad

Best Commenter: eRobin, Emma, and Peggy (of A Moveable Beast)

STRONGLY BEGGING YOU to make a Hall of Fame with the first inductee: Aaron Hawk of Uppity Negro

Hey Everyone, have you seen these hotties?

I nominate Confined Space a News and Commentary on Workplace Health & Safety, Labor and Politics.
I's a great source of information and Jordan has a way of telling it like it is.
http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/
for Best Single Issue Blog

Best Group Blog: All Spin Zone
Best Writing: Jeanne at Body & Soul
Best Humor : Jesus General
Best Blog: DailyKos

Actually, given that Daniel Davies did three equally good postings on the Lancet Study (here, here, here), I'd also like to nominate them for best series.

Best Blog: Eschaton (Atrios)
Best Series: David Neiwert's "The Rise of Pseudo-Facism"
Best New Blog: James Woolcott (while I'm at it, I also highly recommend Woolcott's book Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants--the chapter on Peggy Noonan alone is worth the price)

Best Group Blog: The American Street
Best Humor Blog: American Idle (www.americanidle.net)
Best Blog: AmericaBlog

America... Fuck Yeah!

Best Single Issue Blog

I'd have to go with me, Confined Space

Most Humorous Post

Bernard Kerik is a Fuckwad by the Rude Pundit.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

Clearly Suburban GuerrillaLike a strong cup of coffee, can't start my day without it.

Best Expert Blog

This is a hard one, but I'll have to go for Confined Space by a nose.

Best New Blog

The country is going to hell in a handbasket, but one issue that seems to be ignored, in a political, "we've got to organize" sense, is Public Health. So I'll have to go with Effect Measure

Best Blog: Sorry, can't decide

Best Post: The Politics of Victimization

Best Writing: Just World News

Best Single Issue Blog: RealClimate

Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber

Most Humorous: Defective Yeti

Best New Blog: Loud Liberal (A bit of embarassing self-promotion)

I think Bloggg should be nominated for New Blog and for Expert because of her help to the autistic community. She takes the whole month of April and posts every day for autism awareness. She also helps people offline, she helped my daughter and her son.

The Common Ills should get every award possible. In a fair world, it would. But after Nov. 2004, we don't live in a fair world. So I'll just say no matter who counts the ballots, The Common Ills is the best blog to come along in forever. I've lost complete faith in Kos & Atrios who seem to have been exposed to too much limelight and now see themselves as the "deans" of the blog world.
They can see themselves however they want. But they're about as useful to the world as the "dean" of the Washington press corp -- David Broder. Going after Rush for having a potty mouth, are we now? Well good to know that Kos deals with all the really important issues.
I'll never forget his "move on" speech on The Majority Report about how we just needed to get over Ohio. Kos, how much did the DLC pay you for those remarks? And how much for becoming Simon Rosenberg's cheerleader?
Like Cher post-infomercial, Kos, you've blown your credibility.
Today's Daily Blog Headline: "Kos & Atrios's bodies were found today. Both apparently died sometime in June of 2004. No one noticed due to the fact that the DLC provided typists to fill in.
Simon Rosenberg is charged with penning valentines to himself. . . ."

I forgot to add the best Commentor: MaryScott OConner over at Kos

For best series and best expert Eric Muller of Is That Legal for his work on debunking Michelle Malkin's "In Defense of Internment".

Most Humorous Blog: http://shalloola.blogdrive.com/

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: http://desertislandboy.blogs.com/

Best Expert Blog: http://www.juancole.com/

I'll toss Conrad Barwa into the nominations pile for Best Commenter.

Best Blog
Eschaton
http://atrios.blogspot.com

Best Writing
Hullabaloo
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com

Best Series
Talking Points Memo
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Best Single Issue Blog
Media Matters
http://mediamatters.org/

Best Group Blog
First Draft
http://first-draft.com/

Most Humorous Blog
The Poor Man
http://www.thepoorman.net/

Most Humorous Post
The Poor Man's Wolf Post
http://www.thepoorman.net/archives/003338.html#003338

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Oliver Willis
http://www.oliverwillis.com/

Best Expert Blog
Informed Comment
http://www.juancole.com/

Best New Blog
James Wolcott
http://jameswolcott.com/

Best Blog:
Roger Ailes Blogspot

Best Writing:
TPM
James Wolcott
Michael Berube
Roger Ailes

Best Expert Blog:
Juan Cole
Riverbend

Best Humor Blog:
Roger Ailes. Some of the best scathing takedowns I have read.

Best Group Blog:
Crooked Timber
Pandagon

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Roger Ailes Blogspot

Best Satire/Snark (not one of your categories, I know. I think humor is too generic.)
Tbogg
Ayn Clouter

Blogs I wish would come back.
Chun the Unavoidable
Billmon

For some of those categories, naming only one is incredibly difficult.

Erm:

Best Blog Alas a Blog
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/

new blog: Left2Right
http://left2right.typepad.com/main/

single issue blog: Butterflies and Wheels
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/

commenter dsquared

Best writing: Ezra Klein of Pandagon http://www.pandagon.net/

Most deserving of wider: Utopian Hell
http://www.utopianhell.com/

Best post: Make a Stand, posted by Jesus' General's inner Frenchman, who for once dropped the charade. Potent stuff. Manly, too.

Best Group Blog: The American Street
http://www.reachm.com/amstreet (because such great people, including me, write there, and the perspective is w-i-d-e)
Best Single Issue: Riverbend's Baghdad Burning
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ (because she's told us clearly what it's like to be in Iraq all year--a perspective we're not getting elsewhere)
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Suburban Guerilla
http://suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com/ (it's good)
Best Writing: Digby at Hullabaloo, Jeff Alworth at BlueOregon http://www.blueoregon.com
Most Humorous: Jesus General
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/ (blog that most often makes me spit on my keyboard)

While I'm certain it's not THE best new blog, it is my blog and it's new and so I must nominate Burnt to a Crisp as best new blog.

http://livpooleside.blogspot.com/

(it is MY best new blog, actually)

Best Group Blog: WatchBlog

Best Overall Blog:

Emphasis Added by Rob Salkowitz

I'll give Rob the highest compliment I possibly can: His blog is exactly what my blog would be if I had the time, patience and writing ability to do a blog like that. Well, that and the in-depth knowledge of a wide variety of policy matters. And the restraint to keep from saying "fuck" every three sentences...

(sigh)

I'd like to nominate www.BradBlog.com also at www.bradblogtoo.blogspot.com as the Best Blog.
His reporting on election fraud 2004 has been amazing. If I could only look at one blog a day it would be his.

Bradblog for best blog - in - I forget what the catagories were, but I think his informative blogs are always a treat!

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition - If I don't nominate that DeDurkheim guy from Rising Hegemon my real personality is going to beat the living crap out of my pseudonym, so Rising Hegemon.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition -- Rising Hegemon. They Rule.

BradBlog for best new blog. After a lot of searching for Ohio recount fraud updates, I found this to be the best for timely news.

Since I've been through about 6 permutations of the multiple threads here and can't find my previous nominations anywhere, I'm doing one duplicate.

Best Series: (tie) "America's Worst Mother," TM & © TBogg, and the Christian Education meme at Jesus' General.

Best Recurring Bits: Townhall reviews & Nooners Delusions/Jack Handey @ World O'Crap

Best Cat Blogging: World O'Crap

Best Dark Other-Realm Deity (With Lovecraft-Sized Snark) Blog: Call Of Cthulhu http://callofcthulhu.blogspot.com/

Best Up & Comer: Rogue Planet http://rogueplanet.blogspot.com/
(Now with COMMENTS!)

Best Humor/Satire Blog: Jesus' General http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

Best General-Purpose Humor/Sociological Snark: World O'Crap http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/

Best Real-Life Shit Hitting The Fan: TraumaCity http://www.traumacity.blogspot.com/

Best Blog-ISH-type Site for Techno Geeks: b3ta.com

Best Wicked Bitch Blog: punkrockgirl http://punkrockspoiled.blogspot.com/

Best Soap-Opera-In-A-Teacup: http://www.jadecafe.blogspot.com/

Best Serious Blog: http://americablog.blogspot.com/

Best Guerilla Activism Blog: FreewayBlogger.com

Best Overall Blog: Nuh-uh. You can't make me choose. Nope. There are too many good ones to name JUST one. Hey, I went to public school in the '70s --- I don't HAVE to choose, damn you!

*Note: I would be nominating Yosef as "Hottest Young Conservative Writer On The Internets," but--- Since he is (as far as I know) sans blog, (of his own, anyway) --- I'm not endangering my four big votes by endorsing HIM.

Don't worry --- when it's all said and done, we'll get lit and whine & bitch and probably send the Mormons to fafblog's house.

Best Blog
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Josh Marshall

Best Group Blog
http://www.catallarchy.net/blog/
Most Humorous Blog
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
http://rogueplanet.blogspot.com/

Best Expert Blog
http://www.catallarchy.net/blog/
Best New Blog
http://thewritewing.blogspot.com/

I dislike competition, and I usually prefer to avoid any discussion in which people toss around the labels "best" and "worst." But Brad Friedman's site -- www.bradblog.com -- definitely deserves wider recognition.

Best Expert Blog: RealClimate or The Pandas Thumb

Best overall: Matthew Ygelsias

Best humour blog: Fafblog / Chase me ladies, I'm in the cavalry

Best humorous post: How to win with women / Hitchens' double bluff irony impasse

Best expert blog: Brad Delong

Most deserving of wider recognition: Alicublog

Best new blog James Wolcott

Best Blog Sideshow

Best writing Adventus

Matthew Yglesis, a Thousand times no
http://yglesias.typepad.com/matthew/2004/12/a_thousand_time.html
(he also has one about framing the debate, but I cannot find it)

Best Series- voting machines

Best Group Blog - Seeing the Forest

Most Humourous- General JC Christian

Most deserving of wider recognition Commonwealth Commonsense

Best Expert Blog Confined Space

Best New Blog - Better Angels
check out post
http://betterangels.blogspot.com/2004/05/ballad-of-barbara-bradley-hagerty.html

Best series should be Corrente for their work on voting machines

BEST OVERALL- DAILY KOS
BEST EXPERT- MAXSPEAK OR THE ANGRY BEAR.
BEST WRITINGBILMON
BEST HUMOROUS- Chase me ladies, I'm in the cavalry
BEST HUMOROUS POST: FUCK THE SOUTH OR RUNNING AWAY FROM DOGS OR CHRIS HITCHENS' DOUBLE BLUFF IRONY
BEST GROUP BLOG-CROOKED TIMBER

Best Writing
Why Are We Back In Iraq?

BEST BLOG:

Redguard's Blog

I nominate the Bradblog for Best new blog also best single issue blog based on his breaking stories on the White House Scrubbing and the Curtiss affidavit. Certainly the Bradblog is most deserving for wider recognition. And last but not least I nominate the Bradblog for his scrupulusly getting his facts correct and not bloviating Best expert Blog.

Best Blog
Eschaton

Best Single Issue Blog
Media Matters

Best Writing
Talking Points

Most Humorous Blog
Fanatical Apathy

Most Humorous Post
Fanatical Apathy Concession Speech

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Norbizness

Best blog: Daily Kos

Most humorous: TBogg

Best single issue blog: Media Matters

Best post: JuliusBlog study of terror alerts vs. ratings

Deserving more recognition: General JC Christian, the guy is hilarious!

Most humorous post: F*ck the South

Best writing: Digby, from Hullabaloo

Best new blog: James Wolcott

Best Blog - the American Street
http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/

Best Writing - Hullabaloo
http://digby