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Best Series:
* Newsie's Reviewsies: Media
* Newsie's Reviewsies: Elections

They can also found at her blog, Penndit; I provided the MLW links because they're all in one section (per link) there.

Unbelievable amount of time, effort and knowledge put into this longstanding series. I've come to depend on it.

Best Blog: News Corpse
Best Post: The Real Fake News
Best Single Isuue: Why The Media Is Dead

Best Blog:

The Heretik
Shakespeare's Sister
Crooks & Liars

Single Issue Blog (econ):

The Dark Wraith

Wider Recognition:

The Heretik
Shakespeare's Sister
The Dark Wraith

Best Writing:

The Heretik

Humor Blog:

The Rude Pundit

Most Humorous Post: Desperate Whitehousewives Starring Laura "Leno" Bush
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: News Corpse
Best New Blog: News Corpse

Best Series:
* Newsie's Reviewsies: Media
* Newsie's Reviewsies: Elections

They can also found at her blog, Penndit; I provided the MLW links because they're all in one section (per link) there.

Unbelievable amount of time, effort and knowledge put into this longstanding series. I've come to depend on it.

Am I carrying self-promotion too far? Wait...one more thing...

Get your very own George W. Bush Voodoo Doll

There, now I've gone too far.

Best Blog - The Carpetbagger Report
Best Series - Carpetbagger on Denver Three
(http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/4561.html)

Best Blog: Shakespeare's Sister, Pam's House Blend, Ezra Klein, The Heretik, Lance Mannion

Best Blog - Pro Division: Margaret Cho, The Daou Report, Mother Jones Blog

Best Writing: Shakespeare's Sister, Lance Mannion, Pandagon, The Heretik, Driftglass, Michael Berube, One Upon a Time, Frogs and Ravens

Best Post: Liberals Will Save America, Scarred

Best Series: Pam Spaulding takes on black homobigot preachers (Google round-up here); David Neiwert takes on Michelle Malkin at Orcinus (Part One here); Blanton's and Ashton's series and blogswarm on H.R. 550 (latest post here)

Best Single Issue Blog: Feministing

Best Group Blog: Shakespeare's Sister, Big Brass Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Feministe, Alternate Brain, After School Snack, Alas a Blog

Most Humorous Blog: Norbizness, WTF Is It Now?, Upon Further Review, Me4President, TBogg

Most Humorous Post: Neil Shakespeare's New Jesus Monument Sparks Controversy

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: The Green Knight, Yelladog, Expostulation, SimianBrain, Waveflux, Newshog, Agitprop, The Disgruntled Chemist, Spontaneous Arising, T. Rex's Guide to Life, Laughing Wild, Birmingham Blues, SistersTalk, Science and Politics, The Dark Wraith Forums

Best Expert Blog: Pharyngula

Best New Blog: The Adventures of the Smart Patrol, Some Watery Thoughts, Brother Kenya's Paradigm, Republic of Dogs, Mad Melancholic Feminista, The Heretik

Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Blue Jersey

Best Commenter: Hands down, it's got to be Oddjob, who frequents a number of blogs, including Shakespeare's Sister, Pam's House Blend, The Dark Wraith Forums, and BlondeSense, among others, and who is not only a consistently interesting and thoughtful commenter, but one of the most reliable sources for pointing to breaking news and great stories.

Best Writer - Digby

Most Deserving Wider Recognition - Liberal Avenger, Anonymous Liberal

Best New Blog - Glenn Greenwald - Unclaimed Territory & Anonymous Liberal

Best Single Issue Blog - Obsidian Wings

Most Humerous Blog - Roger Ailes

Best Blog
Alas (a blog)
Majikthise
Making Light
Pandagon
Pharyngula

Best Blog -- Pro Division
Orcinus
Political Animal (at The Washington Monthly)

Best Writing
Billmon of Billmon's Whiskey Bar
Hilzoy of Obsidian Wings (and guest posting at Political Animal)
Shakespeare's Sister of Shakespeare's Sister
David Neiwert of Orcinus
Jeanne D'arc of Body and Soul
Ampersand of Alas (a blog)
Bean of Cool Beans and Alas (a blog)
Digby of Hullabaloo
Amanda of Pandagon
Jim Macdonald of Making Light
Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Making Light
Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise
Saint Nate of Saint Nate's Blog
Jill of Feministe
Lauren of Feministe
Chris Clarke of Creek Running North

Best Single Issue Blog
The Panda's Thumb (evolutionary biology)

Best Group Blog
Feministe
The Panda's Thumb
Making Light
Alas (a blog)
Pandagon
Obsidian Wings
Crooked Timber
The American Street

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Anne's Anti-Quackery & Science Blog
IsThatLegal?
Saint Nate's Blog
Bitch. Ph.D.
Deltoid (though, I don't know if anyone who is refered to in Wikipedia articles can qualify for this award).

Best Expert Blog
Juan Cole of Informed Comment
PZ Myers of Pharyngula
Brad DeLong of Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
David Neiwert of Orcinus

Best Pro Blog - Political Animal
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

Most Humorous Post - Belle Waring's "Taking a Stand"
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/08/13/taking-a-stand/

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition - Battlepanda
http://battlepanda.blogspot.com/

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

Best Commenter - all the regular commenters at Unfogged
http://www.unfogged.com/

Best Blog: The Carpetbagger Report

Best Writing: Digby

Most Deserving Wider Recognition: Doctor Biobrain (me)
Not necessarily because I'm the best blogger (though I am), but because I am so widely unrecognized.

Most humorous post: This Gay Thing, by Doctor Biobrain (also me)

I nominate Spittle & Ink for 2005's Most Humorous Blog. (Link: www.spittleandink.com)

I also nominate "Preview of Chalabi's Speech to American Enterprise Institute" as Most Humorous Post for 2005. (Link: http://www.spittleandink.com/simpleblog/default.asp?view=plink&id=134 )

Best blog: Atrios, natch
Best blog, Pro: Talking Points Memo
Best community: TPM Cafe
Writing: Digby
Best Post: I humbly submit my own Potemkin Photo Op
Best Series: AmericaBlog/Gannon
Best single-Issue blog: Talk Left. No-brainer.
Best Group blog: Again, I humbly submit: Invictus, Dedalus, Monkeyfister, Gary, Allison, McRob, kellyb and Stranger at Blah3.com (I love my team!)
Most Humorous: Rude Pundit and/or Jesus' General
Most Humorous post: Anything from the Rude One
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Cernig's NewsHog
Best Expert blog: Juan Cole
Best New blog: FireDogLake
Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Off The Kuff
Best Commenter: Merkin Patriot, Atrios

Thanks to those who nominated B3. I'm fighting my distaste for moninating my own blog, simply because the Blah3 team knows how to kick it. Best of luck to everyone, and thanks to Wampum for doing this all over again.

Pro Blog: Murray Waas's Whatever Already!

Best Blog: Daily Kos, Bitch, Ph.D.

Best Blog Community: Daily Kos

Best Pro Blog: Altercation

Best New Blog: Printculture

Best Writer: Lance Mannion; Michael Berube

Best Series: Cheers & Jeers, Daily Kos

Best Post: Moving to Norrath via Printculture

Best Post 2: America is in the World via Printculture

Best Group Blog - Booman Tribune

Most Derserving of Wider Recognition - akou: a blog by geogia

Best commenter: Mythago (who comments often at Hugo Schwyzer, Pandagon, Feministe and elsewhere). She also has her own blog at http://www.mythago.com/weblog.php

I nominate "Progressive Blog Digest" for "Most Deserving of Wider Recognition", as well as best blog.

MD

Best Blog

The Sideshow
Eschaton

Best Group Blog

Think Progress

Most deserving wider recognition

The Ruth Group
Faithful Progressive
Norwegianity

Best Series

Fire Dog Lake CIA Leak Coverage
Faithful Progressive: Extremely Influential: The Christian Right in America 2005

Best pro
Froomkin’s WHB

Single Issue: I Hate Pat Robertson

Just one nomination. For Most Humourous Post, I nominate Bob Harris's "Traveling Again."

Blog Most Deserving Wider Recognition
Hammer of Truth
http://hammeroftruth.com

Best group blog/Most deserving of wider recognition/Best new blog:

Long Sunday
http://long-sunday.net

Forgot to add this earlier, but Best Single Issue Blog - Swing State Project (elections)

Blog most deserving of wider recognition:

http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
http://hammeroftruth.com

BEST BLOG:
THE CARPETBAGGER REPORT
MOST DESERVING OF WIDER RECOGNITION:
THE CARPETBAGGER REPORT

Blog most deserving of wider recognition:

http://www.catch.com

Most deserving of wider recognition: Homeland Stupidity

Most deserving of Wider Recognition: Printculture http://www.printculture.com

Best Blog
Pharyngula: http://www.pharyngula.org

Best Blog -- Pro Division
The Loom: http://www.corante.com/loom/
The Intersection: http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp

Best Blog Community
DailyKos

Best Series
Pandemic influenza:

http://aetiology.blogspot.com/2005/10/pandemic-influenza-awareness-week-day.html
http://aetiology.blogspot.com/2005/10/pandemic-influenza-awareness-week-day_04.html
http://aetiology.blogspot.com/2005/10/pandemic-influenza-awarene_112849483751746187.html
http://aetiology.blogspot.com/2005/10/pandemic-influenza-awareness-week-day_06.html
http://aetiology.blogspot.com/2005/10/pandemic-influenza-awareness-week-day_07.html

Best Single Issue Blog
Effect Measure: http://www.effectmeasure.blogspot.com
John Hawks: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/

Best Group Blog
Panda's Thumb http://www.pandasthumb.org

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Factesque: http://casadelogo.typepad.com/factesque/
Science and politics: http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/
Murky Thoughts: http://murkythoughts.blogspot.com/
Buridan's ass: http://www.buridansass.com/

Best Expert Blog
Effect Measure
Pharyngula

Best New Blog
Aetiology http://www.aetiology.blogspot.com

Clearly State of the Day must win for Most Humorous Blog. Then I would say, oh, State of the Day for Best New Blog. And if I may push it a bit, I'm thinking State of the Day would also work under the "Most Deserving of Wider Recognition."

And if you force me, State of the Day contributor Ted from BAGeL, wrote this great post: This is How They Do It: Lie, Rinse, Repeat

And if State of the Day can't win, well maybe some of these guys deserve a bit of recognition:

Best Series - Signs of the Apocalypse, a fantastic sidebar series, over at The Reaction.
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition - LIMBO, smart, smart stuff
Best Group Blog - Daily Kos, just because
Best Expert blog : FireDogLake, love the CIA Leak stuff, top notch

Best New Blog - Glenn Greenwald: Unclaimed Territory & Anonymous Liberal

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition - Glenn Greenwald: Unclaimed Territory & Anonymous Liberal

Best Blog: MyDD
Best Blog -- Pro Division: Talking Points Memo
Best Blog Community: Daily Kos
Best Writing: Josh Marshall
Best Series: Basie! interviews with former Presidential candidates Birch Bayh, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Wes Clark, Carol Moseley Braun, Bob Dole and George McGovern.
Best Group Blog: MyDD

Best blog by a mile: The Iraq War Was Wrong Blog

Best Humor Blog: Pulp Friction by Karen Zipdrive at http://pulpfriction.blogspot.com/

Best Blog: Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, America Blog, Pam's House Blend, Shakespeare's Sister, Big Brass Blog, Washington Note, Lance Mannion, and Liberal Oasis

Best Blog - Pro Division: Attytood

Best Writing: Shakespeare's Sister, Lance Mannion, and Berube

Best Series: America Blog on Gannon/Guckert

Best Single Issue Blog: Feministing

Best Group Blog: America Blog, Firedoglake, Big Brass Blog, Skippy, After Downing Street, and Shakespeare's Sister

Most Humorous Blog: In all immodesty, I'd like to nominate my own
Mad Kane's Notables.

Most Humorous Post: I was thrilled to have one of my blog posts go "viral" this year -- my Bush 404 error page -- so I humbly nominate my Bush 404 Error - Bush Not Found In Crawford.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Barely Legal, Steve Bates, Lean Left, and Onegoodmove.

Best Expert Blog: Firedoglake

Best New Blog: Taylor Marsh, Blogometer, and the Heretik

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

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Hammer of Truth

Possible new categories - best digest blog.
Best woman blogger, Best minority blog (meaning racial group or gender preference if they aren't split.)

Comments - Digest may be a difficult category now - should Atrios be included considering the great majority of his one or two line posts? Should there even be added women, gay, black, latino, native American, minority, homeless, low-income, or whatever categories?

Gary Denton at Easter Lemming Liberal News.

Best Writing: Publius, of Legal Fiction (lawandpolitics.blogspot.com)
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Legal Fiction
Most Humorous Post:
The Knights Who Say Bias
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#113462035653540826
The Great Scales of Objectivity (featuring a naked David Broder)
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#113108209613786936

Best post

Whiskey Bar: My Back Page (on What the Left Needs and why I stopped for awhile)
http://billmon.org/archives/001771.html

How wrong can you idiots be??? Bill in Portland Maine on Daily Kos dairy (rant)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/15/181030/458

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/
Arthur is necessary to my life. After reading a few of his
posts I think he will become necessary to yours as well.

Best Blog -- Pro Division

White House Briefing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

The Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/

Cursor.org
http://www.cursor.org/

It's odd that Arthur is not on the A list but most
of the A list read Arthur. Funny how that works.

Best Blog: My Left Wing

Best Blog Community: My Left Wing

Best New Blog: My Left Wing

Best Series: Iraq War Grief Daily by RubDMC

Best Writer: Chris Kulczycki

Most Humorous Post: The Wizard of Oil by dood abides

Best Commenter: wu ming

Best Post: Whale's Tales and Creationist Lies by DarkSyde

Best Expert Blog: Soapblox.net

Best Blog: Ezra Klein, ezraklein.typepad.com

Best Blog Pro-division: Talking Points Memo

Best Blog Community: The Agonist, www.agonist.org and TPM Cafe.

Best Writing: Ezra Klein, ezraklein.typepad.com, and Matt Yglesias- yglesias.typepad.com

Best Single Issue Blog: Grits for Breakfast

Best Group Blog: Burnt Orange Report, www.burntorangereport.com

Best Humorous Blog: Fafblog!, fafblog.blogspot.com

Best Expert Blog: Mystery Pollster, www.mysterpollster.com

Best New Blog: PinkDome, www.pinkdome.com
In The Pink, Texas, www.inthepinktexas.com
The Jeffersonian, thejeffersonian.blogspot.com

Best Coverage of Local and State Issues:
Off The Kuff, www.offthekuff.com/mt/ (Houston and Texas Issues)
The Jeffersonian, thejeffersonian.blogspot.com (San Antonio and Texas Issues)
PinkDome, www.pinkdome.com (Texas Legislative and State Issues)
In The Pink, Texas, www.inthepinktexas.com (Texas Legislative and State Issues)
The Red State, theredstate.typepad.com (San Antonio and Texas Issues)
Dos Centavos, dos-centavos.blogspot.com (Houston, Texas and Latino Issues

Best Blog Community

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

The Huffinton Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

As immodest as I am, I can't in good conscience nominate my blog (If I Ran the Zoo) for a Koufax because I don't think it's the best in any category. I do think it's darn good, though, and I am (perhaps inordinately) fond of many of the posts there.

Now, the nominations:

Best Pro: Josh Marshall
Best Group Blog: Shakespeare's Sister
Best Blog Community: TPM Cafe
Most Humorous: Fafblog, Norbizness, Tbogg
Most Humorous Post: The Knights Who Say 'Bias' (at Legal Fiction). Honorable mention (not a nomination) to my own ABCs of Corruption.
Best Series: Firedoglake on Plame; Orcinus on Malkin
Best Expert Blog: Brad DeLong
Best Writing: Billmon

Best New Blog

Think Progress
http://www.thinkprogress.org

Crooks and Liars (Pretty sure it started in January?)
http://www.crooksandliars.com/

I would like to nominate the
Wandering Hillbilly as the blog
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition this year.

Most Humorous Post:

More noms later.

Political Animal for Best Pro Blog,

Commentator CMdicely for comments therein

Best Blog: The best blogs are the ones with the most unique voice, that stake out an interesting niche and express themselves well. By definition, there can't be just one.

Best Writing: Creek Running North

Best post: mine, since no one else will remember it: The proper reverence due those who have gone before

Best Group Blog: Panda's Thumb, Cosmic Variance

Most Humorous Blog: Norbizness, Fafblog, Jesus' General

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Norwegianity, I Blame the Patriarchy

Best Expert: Carl Zimmer, Chris Mooney

Best New Blog: Olduvai George (I've been waiting for that one for a long time), Evolving Thoughts

Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Anyone in Kansas has an edge here: Red State Rabble, Thoughts from Kansas

Best Commenter: Chris Clarke

Best Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Making Conservatives Cringe

Best Group Blog:
The Defeatists

Best Humorous Blog:

Fafblog!, fafblog.blogspot.com

Jesus' General, http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

Best Expert Blog:

Mystery Pollster,
http://www.mysterpollster.com

Best expert blog:

Informed Comment - Juan Cole (Iraq)
http://www.juancole.com/

Blog Most Deserving Wider Recognition (Daily Digests)

Easter Lemming Liberal News Digest
http://elemming2.blogspot.com

Best Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Making Conservatives Cringe

Best Group Blog:
The Defeatists

Best new blog - Scout Prime
http://scoutprime.blogspot.com/

Best series - Scout Prime on Hurricane Katrina

Blog deserving wider recognition - Scout Prime

Best Blogs
Kos
Liberal Oasis
Atrios
TPM

Best Group
Think Progress

Most Deserving of Wider Rec
Faithful Progressive
Seeing the Forest

Best Expert
Juan Cole

Best Blog: Legal Fiction
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Legal Fiction
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/

Best Writer: Michael Berube
http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php

Most Humorous: Michael Berube
http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php

Best New Blog: Prawfsblawg
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/

Best Group Blog: Prawfsblawg
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/

Best Series

Orcinus - a series on Michelle Malkin and the rhetoric of the conservatives

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/11/unhinged-unhonest_22.html

Best Blog: Billmon- Whiskey Bar - even though he went AWOL the last few weeks, he's always extremely insightful and snarky
Best Writing: Hunter (at DailyKos) and/or Billmon - By far my favorite writers
Best Post: Hunter: Perspective - Damn, that Hunter can write!
Best Series: plamegate on firedoglake
Best Expert Blog: Pharyngula

Most deserving wider recognition because of the excellent insightful writing: The Talent Show

Best group blog: Huffpo

Oh I almost forgot -- my New Category Suggestion: Best Blog Podcast or Videocast. (This is part of my continuing search for a category that has so little competition that my Mad Kane's Notables might have even a miniscule shot.

Best New Blog: thinkings blog at Patriot Daily
http://www.patriotdaily.com/bm/blog/index.shtml

best writing billmon

best new blog firedoglake
most humorous jesus's general
best post
billmon UP order http://billmon.org/archives/001825.html
billmon scenes we'd like to see http://billmon.org/archives/001864.html
billmon /heart of darkness http://billmon.org/archives/002188.html
billmon blowback http://billmon.org/archives/001900.html
billmon Spring Time for Khomeini http://billmon.org/archives/002051.html
billmon grand delusion http://billmon.org/archives/001854.html
billmon hurricane force http://billmon.org/archives/002181.html

There should be a Best Blog Design category.

Self promotion time.

I run two "sister sites" that examine statistical data differences between conservatives and liberals. The sites are:
http://www.conservative-truths.com/
http://www.liberal-truths.com/

Both of these blogs launched on January 3, 2005.

After reading the description of the categories I think these are the most likely categories for my blogs:
Best New Blog
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

I would also like to be considered for these two, but I'm not sure if my sites exactly conform to the rules for them:
Best Single Issue
Best Series

Thank you.

I'm embarrassed to blow my own horn, but nobody else seems to be blowing my horn (as it were). Therefore I hereby, not entirely shamelessly, nominate my bioethics blog - Sufficient Scruples - for:

• Best Blog
  
• Best Writing
  
• Best Post ("Bad Math, Bad Character on the Anti-Choice Wing" or "Feminists Against Women"
  
• Best Single Issue Blog (Bioethics)
  
• Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
  
• Best Expert Blog (Bioethics)
  
• Best New Blog (est. June 2005)
  

Sorry for the hubris; thanks for the consideration.

Best group blog: catch.com

Best Pro: ThinkProgress.org
Best Group Blog: Blah3.com
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Blah3.com
Best Post: Potemkin Photo Op
Best Community: DailyKos

Heck with it: I'm nominating myself for Best Blog and Most Deserving of Wider Recognition.

And you might consider a Best Podcast, because I sure would accept the nomination.

Two teeny little self-nominations. One for most humorous, and one for best post. Just for the hell of it.

Best Blog: The Carpetbagger Report

My vote for Best Blog is Digby's Hullabaloo (www.digbysblog.blogspot.com). He's consistently great. Plus, he lives in LA, and I got to support my peeps.

Best New Blog:
I'll be a complete prick and nominate my own blog. It qualifies, and I'd never get read otherwise.

Best Series:
Creek Running North's idea to create a Blog Against Racism day, and his subsequent attempt to compile a list of those who went ahead with it.

Most Humorous Blog:
Sadly, No!

Most Humorous Post:
Lord Spatula: The Complete Tool.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
The Rev. Mykeru.

Best Blog:
Majikthise (http://majikthise.typepad.com)

Best Writing:
James Wolcott (http://www.jameswolcott.com/)
Amanda Marcotte (http://www.pandagon.net)
Majikthise (http://majikthise.typepad.com)

Best New Blog
The Happy Feminist (http://happyfeminist.typepad.com/happyfeminist/)

Best Pro Blog:
Think Progress (http://thinkprogress.org)
John Aravosis (http://americablog.blogspot.com)
Crooks and Liars (http://www.crooksandliars.com/)

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Lawyers Guns and Money (http://lefarkins.blogspot.com)
Galloping Beaver (http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/)

Best Expert Blog
Effect Measure (http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com)

Best Single Issue Blog
Effect Measure (http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com)

Mary Scott O'Connor beat me to suggesting Political Animals for an award. I've been following Spike's work for some time on the Booman Tribune and have gone back to his site to check out the archives. Even without a cartoon category, I think Political Animals could be nominated in several places.

Daily Kos has kind of become the site a lot of people love to hate, but it's still my first stop in the morning to check out what's going on.

Juan Cole provides a great service that the MSM either can't or won't: he tells us what's going on in the Middle East.

I also spend a lot of time lurking at Booman Tribunebecause it's such a welcoming place.

Best Blog: Daily Kos
Best Blog -- Pro Division: Daily Kos
Best Blog Community - Booman Tribune
Best Writing - Informed Comment
Most Humorous Blog - Political Animals
Most Humorous Post - Political Animals - Not-So-Secret Ad-Mier-er
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition - Political Animals
Best Expert Blog - Informed Comment

Best Blog: Feministe
Best Blog Community: Bitch, Ph.D.
Best Writing: Shakespeare's Sister, Majikthise, Rox Populi
Best Group Blog: Shakespeare's Sister
Best Expert Blog: Lawyers, Guns and Money
Best Single Issue Blog: Feministing
Most Humorous Blog: I Blame the Patriarchy

Best Blog: Swing State Project

www.swingstateproject.com

Best Blog: Booman Tribune
Best Blog -- Pro Division: Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo
Best Blog Community: Booman Tribune
Best Writing: SusanHu at Booman Tribune & dKos
Best Post: Burn the Motherfucker Down! by MilitaryTracy
Best Series: Jerome a Paris/Countdown to $100 bl Oil
Best Single Issue Blog: Firedoglake/Plameology
Best Group Blog: Huffington Post
Most Humorous Blog: Jesus General
Most Humorous Post: The Wizard of Oil by Bood Abides
Most Humorous Series: Advice for Batshit Loopy by BostonJoe
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: ductapefatwa.blogspot.com
Best New Blog: Booman Tribune

Best Blog: Choosing Hope
Most Humorous Blog: Defective Yeti

I would like to nominate http://frankwbell.no-ip.info/weblog/
in the BEST WRITING category. You should check this guy out. He should write for a newspaper somewhere!

I nomimate Suburban Guerrilla for best blog--wide-ranging, well-written, and eclectic:
http://www.susiemadrak.com/

Most humourous, Jesus General
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

Best Commentor: Informed Comment
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

I hope this nomination shows up...I'm challenged in that way and this is my second try....
I nominate http://frankwbell.no-ip.info/weblog/ for Best Writing...this guy should be writing for a newspaper somewhere!

Left I on the News (lefti.blogspot.com) absolutely best blog.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

Daddy, Papa & Me: http://www.lathefamily.org

It's a 'parenting' blog, liberal advocacy, eclectic and interesting.

Best Blog Community: LiberalAvenger.com

Best Post: Auguste and LiberalAvenger's expose on the Malkins, Ghost Blogging.

Best Single Issue Blog: Malkin(s)Watch

Best Group Blog: Liberal Avenger

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Nur Al-Cubicle

Best Writing: Creek Running North
http://www.faultline.org/place/pinolecreek/
Best Commenter: Chris Clarke from Creek Running North
Wider Recognition: Living the Scientific Life http://girlscientist.blogspot.com/
Best: Pharyngula
Best Post: The Proper Reverence Due Those Who Have Gone Before" on Pharyngula http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/the_proper_reverence_due_those_who_have_gone_before/
Best Expert: The Loom - Carl Zimmer
http://www.corante.com/loom/

Best feministe Blog: Elayne Riggs, PenElayne
http://miaculpa.blogspot.com/

Sorry, the url for PenElayne is:

http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/

If not best feministe blog, perhaps we could make her the official 'Blog Mother'? :)

Desi,

I have already copyrighted "Fairy Blogmother," so watch your step, bub.

: )

Best Series: Doug Ireland of direland.typepad.com

For his reporting of international LGBT human rights, in Iran, Poland, among other nations.

Best Series:

Scout Prime: Hurrican Katarina series

Best New Blog:

Scout Prime:
http://scoutprime.blogspot.com/

Blog most deserving of more recognition:

Scout Prime:

http://scoutprime.blogspot.com/

Most Deserving of More Recognition:
Daily Dissent
for the exemplary democratic watchdog service Dionysis provides. He rounds up news from a wide variety of sources, including quick quotes along with links for further study. The heading of the page is this quote from Theodore Roosevelt (a personal favorite of mine): "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

Legal Fiction or Ezra Klein for best blog

in keeping with my annual tradition, i hereby nominate my blog for almost every category there is. especially best group blog, because i actually have co-bloggers that do a good job. but mainly most humorous blog.

while i'm at it, i'd also nominate firedoglake for best group blog, too.

I nominate from Pine View Farm for the Best New Blog.

Best New Blog & Most Deserving of Wider Recognition goes to Making Conservatives Cringe, an Iraq War vet and a dedicated blogger
http://fredbieling.blogspot.com/

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Norwegianity

Best photo blog: Dohiyi Mir
Best new blog: d r i f t g l a s s
Blog most deserving of wider recognition: Bark Bark Woof Woof
Best blog community: Street Prophets

Best blog: My Quiet Life
Best pro blog: Nashville is Talking
Best writing: Tiny Cat Pants
Most humorous blog: Rex L. Camino's Blog of DOOM
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Theogeo
Best New Blog: Mephistophocles
Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Salem's Lots, Enclave

Blog most deserving of further recognition: www.norwegianity.comom

Most humorous blog: www.fafblog.blogspot.com

What with the NYTimes sitting on the story about Guitar George authorising illegal wiretaps, I nominate for Best Post-
Establishing cover? (Part 1) by MB Williams of Wampum

Whose side are they on anyway?

Most deserving of wider recognition: Newshog at
http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/

For Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Science And Politics (by coturnix)

For Best Pro Blog: The Intersection

For Best Expert Blog: Pharyngula

For Best Series: the Lakoff/Understanding the Conservative Mind posts from the aforementioned Science And Politics (37 posts)
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,
11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,
21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,
31,32,33,34,35,36,37

Probably more to come

Best Blog: Atrios (to Mars!)
Best Blog Community: Daily Kos (biggest and baddest)
Best Group Blog: MyDD (best 4 political junkies around)
Most Humorous Blog: Jesus General (get it?)

I would like to nominate Frank from the Pine View Farm for the Best
New Blog..

For best series:

Arthur Silbur's Torture series at Once Upon A Time

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Firedoglake

Best Writing:
Steve Gilliard

Best New Blog:
driftglass

Most humourous:
Jesus General

Best Expert Blog:
Talkleft

Thinking on it more, I have more to add:

Best blog:

Pam's House Blend
http://www.pamshouseblend.com

Best Blog Pro:

RawStory
http://www.rawstory.com

Writing:

Norbizness
http://norbizness.com

Wider Recognition:

PSoTD
http://www.psotd.com
The Green Knight
http://thegreenknight.blogspot.com
Expostulation
http://expostulation.com
Laughing Wild
http://www.laughingwild.blogspot.com

Best community:

Street Prophets
http://www.streetprophets.com

Commenter:

Oddjob! Best blogger without a blog.

You can find him all over--on Shakes' Sis, Pam's House Blend, The Dark Wraith Forums, and The Green Knight to name a few.

Best Blog
Pharyngula

Best Blog -- Pro Division
Chris Mooney | The Intersection

Best Writing
Bitch Ph.D.
Creek Running North

Best Post
Rob Help-Chalk's phone call with the mayor of Gretna

Best Series

Best Single Issue Blog
The Panda's Thumb
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Living the Scientific Life

Best Group Blog
The Panda's Thumb
Cosmic Variance
Crooked Timber

Most Humorous Blog
Fafblog!

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Living the Scientific Life
Geeky Mom

Best Expert Blog
Pharyngula
Circadiana

Best New Blog
Adventures in Ethics and Science
The Questionable Authority
Aetiology

Best Coverage of State or Local Issues
Thoughts from Kansas
Science and Politics

Best Post:
"Rosa Parks, Misremembered" (Little Wild Bouquet)

http://littlewildbouquet.blogspot.com/2005/10/rosa-parks-misremembered.html

Best New Blog - State of the Day

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Bouphonia

And now, for the coveted Battlepanda nominations for the Koufax. Drumroll please...

BEST BLOG
Ezra Klein

BEST BLOG -- PRO DIVISION
Kevin Drum of the Political Animal

BEST BLOG COMMUNITY
Hands down TPM Cafe.

BEST WRITING
Majikthise. I don't know whether her ability to write so clearly and incisively is due to or despite of her training in analytic philosophy.

BEST POST
Mark Schmitt's post on Miss America Conservatives

BEST SERIES
It's gotta be Radley Balko of The Agitator and his on-going investigative series on Cory Maye. Not only is it noteworthy that a blogger is directly covering a news item rather than providing analysis, Balko is giving much-needed publicity to a case where an innocent man's life is hanging in the balance.

BEST SINGLE ISSUE BLOG
Brad Delong for Economics.

BEST GROUP BLOG
Lawyer, Guns and Money.

MOST HUMOROUS BLOG
THE FAFBLOG!

MOST DESERVING OF WIDER RECOGNITION
Elaine Supkis

BEST EXPERT BLOG
Juan Cole.

BEST NEW BLOG
Dymaxion World

BEST COMMENTER
Lawrence Krubner

http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/

Dammit.

[hey, friday nudibranch blogging is ok. so is tuesday tectibranch blogging. ebw]

Pro: Wolcott

Writing: Digby

Most Deserving Wider Recognition: Norwegianity

Expert: Pharyngula

Most Humorous: WTF Is It Now?

Margaret Dumont: Bill Frist

and
Best Series: Birds In the News every week @ Living the Scientific Life
www.girlscientist.blogspot.com

Best Single Issue: Operation Yellow Elephant

Local and/or single issue (rigid categories these are): Pam's House Blend

Best 'wherever it fits(?)' or where-to-start blog: Coturnix' Science and Politics

Best Series: Bill In Portland Maine's "Cheers and Jeers" on Daily Kos (especially since he had to share it unfairly last year...we have a LOT of spouses who share a computer at home! I saw one vote that may have been the same person using a different name!)

Best Community: Street Prophets

Best New Blog: My Left Wing

and Street Prophets

I would like to suggest a category for daily series or longer running series--what Bill does is tremendously more work than a series that runs for a few weeks. Or even humor series.

Best single issue blog: Effect Measure
The Oil Drum

Best writing: Frogs and Ravens
Set Free

Most deserving of wider recognition: Tiny Cat Pants
Dharma Bums

For best post, I would like to nominate Kim Pearson's "I Meant To Write About This," a personal and historical meditation on the 20th anniversary of the bombing of MOVE's headquarters in Philadelphia, PA:

http://professorkim.blogspot.com/2005/05/i-meant-to-write-about-this.html

Best Blog and Best Blog Community:
Blondesense

Best Blog: Michael Berube
Best Writing: Michael Berube
http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php
Best Group Blog: Pandagon
http://www.pandagon.net/
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: The Sideshow
http://sideshow.me.uk/

PZ's right. I co-nominate Olduvai George as Best New Blog.

Best Blog
My Left Wing

Best Blog Community
My Left Wing

Best Writing
maryscott at My Left Wing - especially her Manifesto.

caliberal at My Left Wing

weeping for brunnhilde at My Left Wing.

Best Post
What is to be Done by Eugene at My Left Wing.

Reproductive Justice, Not Just Abortion, Is What Really Matters by Shanikka at My Left Wing.

Best Series
rubDMC's Iraq War Grief Daily Witness at My Left Wing.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
My Left Wing

Best Expert Blog
Weather Underground.

Best New Blog
My Left Wing

Best Commenter
bluebird of happiness at My Left Wing.
cathy at My Left Wing.
paul in sanfransico at My Left Wing.
ScottinSoCalat My Left Wing
pluto at My Left Wing.

Is there a category for "most encouraging to other bloggers" or
"most helpful to new bloggers"? Coturnix regularly posts useful advice and amazing compilations of useful links at Science and Politics. He is helping to build the linkage infrastructure that will coalesce all the little villages of blogs into a nation of blogs.

Dummy me! I nominated so many and forgot Olduvai George for New Blog!

Also a fascinating and excellent new blog is Matt Nesbitt's Framing Science

Best Pro Blog:
Alex Ross
Terry Teachout
Kyle Gann

Best Expert Blog:
Me (music)

Best Writing:
Meanwhile Here in France

OK - I tried posting this before, then hit the wrong button - so please forgive me if it doubles up. I'm really uncomfortable with this whole self-promotion thing in the first place. It feels kinda wierd.

Anyway - For deserving wider recognition: The Fat Lady Sings
And would you please consider 'Just Spread 'Em Honey!' for most hunorous post.

Thank You!
The Fat Lady Sings

Sorry if this looks funny
but it looks even funnier
in my browser.

Best blog:
Majikthise --- the most interesting discussion around, IMO.

Blog most deserving of wider attention:
Progressive Blog Digest http://pbd.blogspot.com/
(if you're not reading him, you should be).

Best writing: A tie between:
MyKeru http://www.mykeru.com/
and
The Marj Memoirs http://metamarge.blogspot.com/

I have more to add but I'm watching I, Claudius at the moment and
Augustus is fixing to kick the bucket. So ... more later!

Best Blog - DailyKos

Best Blog Community - MyDD

Best Post - Melting the Skin Off of Children
http://hunter.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/9/174518/797

Best Single Issue Blog - AmericaBlog

Best Group Blog - Swing State Project

Most Humorous Blog - Jesus' General

Best New Blog - BlueJersey
http://www.bluejersey.net

Best Coverage of State or Local Issues - BlueJersey

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Patriot Daily Blog: thinkings

Extraordinarily prescient entries from Katrina to what lurks below the surface of Bush's public statements!

Best Blog
Prometheus 6
Pam's House Blend
Echidne of the Snakes

Wider Recognition
Black Feminism
Coalition for Darfur

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

Best Video Blog: John Amato's CrooksandLiars: http://www.crooksandliars.com/

Best Blog, Pro-Division: Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/index

Best Blog Community: Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/

Best Writing: Echidne: http://www.echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/
Hey, she's a goddess for cripe's sake.

Best Post: twenty-two: posted by myself while guest-blogging at Jesus' General: http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2005_10_16_patriotboy_archive.html#112978285282767446

and

Atrios, Crazy Guy at the Bar: http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_09_11_atrios_archive.html#112676909214367846

Best Series: Richard Cranium/AllSpinZone, the series on Latoyia Figueroa
http://allspinzone.com/blog/index.php?query=latoyia&amount=0&blogid=1

The search and find of a missing, single, pregnant black woman in a world obsessed with missing well-to-do blonde haired, white women.

Best Group Blog: Think Progress: http://www.thinkprogress.org/

Most Humorous Blog: Jesus' General: http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

Most Humorous Post: Anything by The General: http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Mia Culpa: http://miaculpa.blogspot.com/

Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Ohio 2nd: http://blog.oh02.com/

Best Commenter: NTodd of Dohiyimir: http://dohiyimir.typepad.com/

and

NTodd's Pa

Best Expert Blog: Being's that there isn't a category for photo blogging or podcasting:

Best Photo Blogger, and Best Podcaster: NTodd of Dohiyimir: http://dohiyimir.typepad.com/http://dohiyimir.typepad.com/

Bestest New Blog: Mia Culpa: http://miaculpa.blogspot.com/
'cause I'm nice and people like me, damnit. Also 'cause I deserve it after the nightmare of having porno spammers steal my original site, and iffen elected I'll make a drunken fool outta myself in the comments at Eschaton. Okay, so it'll be like usual, but it's all I got to offer . . .

Best Feminist Blog 0r BlogMother:[Again, I know there's not a category for it but c'mon, she's like the glue that holds the internet together!] Elayne Riggs, PenElayne: http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/

Best Blog: http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Best Community: http://www.buzzflash.com/
Most Humorous: http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Best Single Issue blog: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/
Most deserving of wider attention: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
Best Foreign blog: http://www.xymphora.blogspot.com/
(I know it's not official, but she's logical and on top of things.
Had to put her in here somewhere.)

Best Single-Issue/Series
Scout Prime on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Most deserving of wider recognition:
Bartcop - he has been doing it longer then most folks here - at first a lone voice in the wilderness. He is profane, funny and sharp in just the right measure. He prints wingnut letters just so he can give them the spanking they deserve

best blog
Eschaton www.atrios.blogspot.com/
Firedoglake www.firedoglake.blogspot.com/
Hullabaloo www.digbysblog.blogspot.com/

best pro blog
froomkin www.discourse.net/
TPM www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Altercation msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

best blog community
huffington post
Kos www.dailykos.com/

best writing
billmon
James Walcott www.jameswalcott.com

best series
firedoglake on Rove
Tbogg Goldberg fan-fiction series www.tbogg.blogspot.com/

best group blog
Big Brass Blog www.bigbrassblog.com/

most humorous blog
Fafblog www.fafblog.blogspot.com/
Jesus General www.patriotboy.blogspot.com/

Most Deserving of Wider Recongition
BARTCOP www.bartcop.com

Best Expert Blog:
Brad DeLong http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/
Altercation msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

Most humors post
Tbogg's 'Flowers for Goldberg'

Most Deserving Wider Recognition:

Norwegianity
Wit, humor and style.....what else is there?

BEST BLOG:
Language Hat
wood s lot
Political Theory

BEST COMMENTER:
Amish Lovelock

MOST HUMOROUS:
The Poor Man

BEST NEW BLOG:
Le Colonel Chabert

BEST POST:
The Truth Will Set You Free by Adam Kotsko

Best Blog - Firedoglake

Best Blog -- Pro Division - James Wolcott

Best Blog Community - Booman Tribune

Best Writing - Suburban Guerrilla

Best Post - Hullabaloo - Genie in a Bottle

Best Series - Talking Point Memo - Social Security privatization, he never let up for months and I think it is likely he had a major impact on keeping this from becoming the law of the land. I wrote to my senators and congressman because of him. I think many others did too. I think he made people, blogs, and eventually the news media focus on the downside of this issue until Bushies hopes of passing SS legislation evaporated.

Best Single Issue Blog - Media Matters

Best Group Blog - Blah3

Most Humorous Blog - TBogg

Most Humorous Post - The Adventures of Battle-Action Bush and the Keyboard Kommandos!

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition - The Left Coaster

Best Expert Blog - Pharyngula

Best New Blog - The Next Hurrah

Best New Blog

The MOQUOL

Here's some more:

Humor:
Decorabilia
Coeruleus (She Flies With Her Own Wings)

Experts (as well as Best Writers):
Stirling Newberry
Jeffrey Feldman
Matthew Nisbett
Paul Rosenberg

Best Writers:
Rana
Echidne
Amanda Marcotte
Shakespeare's Sister

Hitting the categories I missed...

Best Commenter

eugene at My Left Wing

sassy texan at My Left Wing

bluebird of happiness at My Left Wing

Cathy at My Left Wing

mirrim at My Left Wing

weeping for brunnhilde at My Left Wing

Eternal Hope at My Left Wing

Pluto at My Left Wing

mcjoan at Daily Kos

georgia10 at Daily Kos

I know that's a lot, but a "Top 10" list (in no particular order) is the best I could do in narrowing the choices down. I could list a hundred.

Most Humorous Blog

Rising Hegemon

Dependable Renegade

Best Writing

Maryscott O'Connor at My Left Wing

Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon

Hunter at Daily Kos

Most Humorous Post

The Wizard of Oil by dood abides

Since THAT is unquestionably the funniest post of the year, bar none, I'll be flippantly arrogant here and nominate two of my own attempts at humor:

Herodotus Weeps by Raybin

Bill O'Reilly Makes Baby Herodotus Cry by Raybin

Best Series

Armando's SCOTUS work at Daily Kos

RubDMC's Iraq War Grief Daily Witness posted lots of places including My Left Wing

Since in my own mind there's no doubt that the best series is one of those two, I'll continue to be stupefyingly arrogant and nominate my own Civil War series: We Cannot Believe Americans Can Do These Things, Death in September, American Angel, Jackasses to the Rescue, Scythe of the Reaper and Cold harbor and the Birth of Modern Warfare.

Best Post

Well in my mind there's just too damn many jaw dropping, thought provoking, staggeringly well written posts in the lefty blogosphere to pick but a few...so, just to be a shit, I'll round out the arrogance trifecta by nominating....ME, BABY~!

Scythe of the Reaper by Raybin

Death in September by Raybin

Ahhhhhh....self-aggrandizement. God bless it. I'd feel bad if it didn't feel so good.

Best Post: Let There Be Peace on Earth

Best Series: Medicare Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Most Deserving: Xpatriated Texan

Best New Blog: Xpatriated Texan

For Best Commenter and Best Local Blog:
Will Raymond

Best Blog: Daily Kos
Best Blog Community: OurCongress.org
Best Writing: Jaye Ramsey Sutter, http://windingroad.typepad.com
Den of Iniquity, http://iniquitizer.blogspot.com
Best Single Issue Blog: Off The Kuff
Best Group Blog: Burnt Orange Report
Most Humorous Blog: Den of Iniquity
Most Humorous Post:
Signs You Have Drug/Alcohol Issues, Legally Blonde: http://legallyblondetrec.blogspot.com/2005/11/signs-you-have-drugalcohol-addiction.html

Shopping With Two Kids And My Mother, Den of Iniquity: http://iniquitizer.blogspot.com/2005/02/shopping-with-4-kids-my-mother.html

Come Gather 'Round People Wherever You Roam, Legally Blonde:
http://legallyblondetrec.blogspot.com/2005/11/come-gather-round-people-wherever-you.html

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Den of Iniquity, (iniquitizer.blogspot.com); Legally Blonde(http://legallyblondetrec.blogspot.com/); Winding Road In Urban Area (http://windingroad.typepad.com
Best New Blog: In the Pink Texas (http://www.inthepinktexas.com; Pink Dome (http://www.pinkdome.com)
Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Burnt Orange Report

We would like to nominate Teh L4m3 of Freedom Camp as best commenter. He has his own style demonstrated here in this post and he comments at many a lefty humor blog, most notably Sadly, No! and it's environs. He makes threads worth reading.

Anyone know the deadline to get nominations in?

Best New Blog: Facing South, by the Institute for Southern Studies' Chris Kromm. (Guest posting by Koufax winner SKB).

Disclaimer: I'm the site admin, but I have nothing to do with the actual content. They just call me when blogger craps out or their images need optimized.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: bilerico.com

Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: bilerico.com (Indiana GLBT politics)

Best New Blog: State of the Day

Here are my nominees:

• Best Blog: Eschaton
  
• Best Blog, Pro Division: Joshua Micah Marshall
  
• Best Writing: Jeremy's Weblog
  
• Best Group Blog: Think Progress
  
• Most Humorous Blog: Jesus' General
  
• Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Neo Tokyo Times
  
• Best New Blog: Concurring Opinions
  
• Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Hypothetically Speaking

Best Series: Law Dork series on the Senate's lynching apology resolution for this award:

• Dirty Dozen? (Or, uh, 21?)
  
• Where They Stand
  
• Remaining In Doubt
  
• Following the Anti-Lynching Resolution
  
• Lynching Apology Update
  
• Why the Apology Is Not Enough
  
• Lynching Apology Talk Hits Online Post
  
• Kyl Leaves Ten
  
• Symbolic Silence

Best Post: I am nominating my post, "Growing Up Catholic . . . and Gay," written after the death of Pope John Paul II.

Best post:

Joseph Farbeann's November 9th, 2005 post entitled "God to Spare Kansas and Texas" at http://leftbankblog.blogspot.com

Best Series: The Terrorist Mother Nature by monkey at annatopia
very, very funny stuff!

• Best Blog: Nitpicker
• Best Blog, Pro Division: Daou Report
• Best Blog Community: Kos
• Best Writing: Unqualified Offerings
• Best Post: Bush Supporters of the Far Right: Cries from the Lake of Fire by Hunter. It's shrilleriffic.
• Best Series: hilzoy and Katherine for their series on Republican attempts to gut the McCain anti-torture amendment. Everything that is good and important about weblogging is right there.
• Best Single-Issue Blog: Today In Iraq
• Best Group Blog: American Footprints
• Most Humorous Blog: Dear Leader's Daily Thought
• Most Humorous Post: In A Perfect World
• Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Bottle of Blog
• Best Expert Blog: Arms Control Wonk
• Best New Blog: firedoglake
• Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Burnt Orange Report
• Best Commenter: Floyd. Alvis. Cooper.

Best Blog Agitprop

Best Writing Driftglass

Group Blog Blondesense

Humorous Blog Jesus' General

Best New Blog Simply Left Behind

Deserving of Wider Recognition Simply Left Behind

State or Local Issues Gort 42

May I suggest a special award for Cursor? Call it Best Guide to Everything Else or Most Indispensable or even a Lifetime Achievement Award. But cursor.org is the go-to page for everything else on the Web.

And how about a Best Non-Political Series nod to bobharris.com for his whimsical Friday Pudublogging? A welcome respite from the insanity of the week's hard news!

Best Commenter: Oddjob
Best Pro Blog: James Wolcott

Best blog: Michael Berube
Best post: Billmon' post about his daughter's best friend
Best single issue: Angry Bear
Most deserving of wider recognition: Dohiyi Mir (NTodd)
Best Writing: Lance Mannion; Michael berube

Best Blog

Firedog Lake
The Sideshow

Humor
The Heretik

Single Issue
Pam's House Blend

Most Deserving Wider Readers
Faithful Progressive

Best Series

Josh Marshall on Social Security and Abramoff

Faithful Progressive on Extremely Influential: the Christian Right 2005

Best post: Melting The Skin Off Of Children, Hunter, DailyKos

Most Humorous: Dispatch From The War On Christmas, Hunter, DailyKos

The Wizard of Oil, Dood Abides, dudehisattva

Best Writing: gottlieb, My Left Wing

Best commenter: Maryscott O'Connor, My Left Wing, DailyKos

Most humorous blog: The Rude Pundit

Best New Blog: My Left Wing

Best Community Blog: My Left Wing, because where else do can you get a Daily Rant?

Best local blog: Soapblox Colorado

Best Series: RubDMC, Iraq War Grief Daily Witness, cross-posted to Booman Tribune, European Tribune, DailyKos, My Left Wing,

AdvisorJim, Confessions of a Former Dittohead, DailyKos

Carnacki, Got A Happy Story, DailyKos

Frankenoid, Saturday Morning Garden Blogging, DailyKos (yup, engaging in a little self promotion here)

Suggested new categories: Best cartoon/visual; Best community series, because the personal is political, and politics is community

Best (UR-)blog
wood s lot
PTDR
Brit Lit Blogs (politics being just poor literature, after all)

Best blog
MaxSpeak, You Listen!

Best new blog
Le Colonel Chabert

Best group blog
lenin's tomb
Long Sunday

Most deserving of wider recognition
Posthegemonic Musings
Limited, Inc.

Best post
Long Sunday: Penguins: Hopping Across the Frozen Bathos

Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Red Tory.

Best Blog: Shakespeare's Sister.

Most Humorous Blog: Neddie Jingo. MadKane.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Blue Girl in a Red State. Tom Watson. Science and Politics.

Best Group Blog: Shakespeare's Sister. Printculture. The Agonist. The American Street.

Best Post: Descending into the Dark Ages
Best Group Blog: Seeing the Forest
Best Single-Issue Blog: The Well-Timed Period
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Thoughts of an Average Woman

Best Non-Sponsored Blog: My Left Wing, Prometheus 6
Best New Blog: My Left Wing
Best Blog Community: My Left Wing and Street Prophets
Best Group Blog: Big Brass Blog
Best Single Issue Blog: Talk Left (What else?)
Best Series: SusanG's Plamegate/Jeff Gannon Series at DailyKOS, culminating in J.D. Guckert/Jeff Gannon - These Are Your Lives! (with honorable mention to the Iraq War Grief Daily Witness, by RubDMC at My Left Wing and DailyKOS)
Best LGBT Blog: Pam's House Blend (not like she still needs my vote but if I hadn't been lagging I'd have voted for her so here it is anyway!)
Best Commenters: Eugene, Sassy Texan, and Wu Ming (all of My Left Wing and DailyKOS fame)
Best Writing: Hunter, at DailyKOS
Best Humor Blog: Jesus' General
Most Humorous Post: No doubt, it's The Wizard of Oil, by Dood Abides
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: My Left Wing, Prometheus6.

I'm still pondering the "Best Post" category. It's tough, this year.

I feel compelled to point out that by excluding a "Best Ethnic Blog" category, a number of highly talented writers who write about political issues from the perspective of their ethnic/racial communities get drowned out by the more mainstream blogs. Blogs written by those who are not trying to hide the nuanced perspectives on mainstream politics that may arise because of their racial or ethnic backgrounds, like Prometheus6, Black Feminism, Latino Pundit or even my own baby blog Political Sapphire play an important role in developing effective political strategy, so please reconsider the omission for next year. Thanks!

*Best Blog Community: TPM Cafe (http://www.tpmcafe.com/)
*Best Expert Blog: Effect Measure (http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/)
*Best Local Issue Blog: Sphere (Long Island Sound) (http://thissphere.blogspot.com/)
*Best Series: Starbucks [Fair Trade] Challenge at green LA girl (http://greenlagirl.com/category/fairtrade/starbucks-challenge/)
*Wider Recognition: Bootstrap Analysis (http://nuthatch.typepad.com/ba)

Best Commenter: a href="http://www.dohiyimir.org/">NTodd.

Ack, forgot the stupid begin tag. you would think I never posted a link before...

Best Commenter: NTodd.

No coffee yet is my only excuse...

From the epicenter of hyper-local weblogging, Greensboro, NC...
Best Group Blog: Greensboro101.com

Most informative blog: DNC Kicking Ass blog

Most artistic/original: nightbirdsfountain.blogspot

Most thought provoking: frameshopisopen

Best Post:
Melting the Skin Off of Children, by Hunter @ DKos

Yeah, in the last thread I nominated half a dozen posts for Best Post. Including 4 of my own.

But Melting the SKin Off of Children is by far the best post I'VE read all year. And if you read it, I'm almost SURE you'll agree.

Best Blog: Lance Mannion

Best Writing: Lance Mannion

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Blue Girl in a Red State

You've got to consider Philalethes's ">Bouphonia for best writing, and maybe best specialist (he's somewhat wide-ranging but basically writes about environmental issues.)

Three series at Left I on the News to nominate for Best Series:

The "exit strategy" that isn't - analyzing how all the major "successes" of the U.S. military against insurgents in Iraq are achieved with airpower and tanks which are never going to be left in the hands of Iraqis
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Resign. Now. - Calling on Bush, Cheney, and the entire gang to resign.
1 2 3 4 5 6

The "Disappeared" - a multiyear series dedicated to remembering Iraqis like Amer al-Saadi who have been jailed, typically in solitary confinement, for nearly three years, after surrendering voluntarily to the Americans, and not yet charged with any crimes, but against whom crimes (violations of the Geneva Convention) are being committed on a daily basis.
1 2 3 4

Best New Blog & Most Deserving of Wider Recognition goes to "Making Conservatives Cringe."

Fred Bieling's an Iraq War vet and a dedicated blogger. Fred also blogs at Syracuse Progressive with Jude Nagurney Camwell aka progressive blogger Iddybud who also deserves recognition for her prolific writing. She is a guest blogger on John Edwards' One America blog, which also deserves an award in whatever category would fit.

One more series for Best Series:

Intelligent Design

"Intelligent design"...isn't (and what it is is blasphemy)
Intelligent design: an assault on religion
Pat Buchanan: Unintelligent, and disingenuous

Best Blog
Eschaton
Billmon
Shakespeare's Sister
Suburban Guerrilla
Crooks and Liars

Best Blog - Pro Division
Attytood
James Wolcott

Best Writing
Billmon
Michael Berube
By Neddie Jingo
Bouphonia
The Poor Man
The Tattered Coat

Best Post
Tattered Coat: The Great Rovian Sit n' Spin
Tattered Coat: On Looking at Photographs of the New Orleans Dead
Tattered Coat: Cognitive Dissonance, the Bush Administration, Cindy Sheehan, and the War in Iraq
Tattered Coat: Another Military Blogger Silenced

Best Series
Shakespeare's Sister / Big Brass Alliance on The Downing Street Memo

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
The Tattered Coat
By Neddie Jingo
Bouphonia
Republic of T
Lance Mannion
Tom Watson
The Heretik

Best Commenter
Susie Shedd on Tattered Coat (example)

Self-nominations for Best Post, all from Left I on the News. Yes, there are a lot. I do a lot of original writing, and most of it is not duplicated on any other blog:

A tale of two generals
The "opposition" party: transcript (and analysis) accomplished!
The "exit strategy" in Iraq is a sham
Resign. Now.
Intelligent design: an assault on religion
What is a life worth? And to whom?
Posada Carriles - why he matters
Birds and politics - the Tale of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
John McCain - war criminal
The war didn't end yesterday
Did the administration believe in Iraqi WMD?
Terrorist sneaks across U.S. border
"Expert" analysis
Assessing the antiwar movement
Terrorism...and other problems
The function of blogs
WMD - The lies continue
Am I the only one who thinks members of the Iraqi military and resistance fighters are human beings?

I'd like to nominate legallyblonde for best new blog

best new blog, Street Prophets
best community blog, Street Prophets
most deserving of wider recognition, Street Prophets

Best new- Firedoglake

Humorous- Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry

Humorous post- Hitchens bellows at students, sobs uncontrollably

Best writing Alicublog

best blog: americablog
best community blog: my left wing
best sponsored/corporate blog: bloggermann by keith olbermann at msnbc
best group blog: myDD
best new blog: my left wing
best coverage of state or local issues: off the kuff, focusing on texas state elections
best expert blog: informed comment, needed now more than ever
most humorous blog: jesus's general
best series: the terrorist mother nature series by monkey at annatopia.com - yall have got to read that series - it's friggin' hilarious!
funniest/most humorous post: homegrown terror by monkey at annatopia.com - another classic, very very funny!

For Best Writing: The Tattered Coat http://tatteredcoat.com
Matt never confuses eloquence with gas production.

For Best Post: The Tattered Coat, "On Looking At Photographs of the New Orleans Dead" http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2005/09/08/on-looking-at-photographs-of-the-new-orleans-dead/

And if you DO decide to have a "Best Blog Design" Category, i'd nominate Tattered Coat about a hundred times -- it's simple, elegant, easy to navigate and supremely easy on the eyes.

Humorous post- The Instapundit- a master of the bore's craft

Best Blog
Pharyngula: http://www.pharyngula.org

Best Group Blog
Panda's Thumb: http://www.pandasthumb.org

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Science and politics: http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com
Capitalist Pig vs. Socialist Swine: http://pig-vs-swine.blogspot.com
Buridan's Ass: http://www.buridansass.com

Best Expert Blog
The Loom: http://www.corante.com/loom

Best New Blog
Buridan's Ass: http://www.buridansass.com
Aetiology: http://www.aetiology.blogspot.com
Franks Atheistic Ramblings: http://franksatheisticramblings.blogspot.com

Best blog: BAGnews
Most humorus blog: Spittle and Ink
Most humorous post: Preview of chalabi's AEI speech, Spittle and ink
Best writer: bill scher, liberal oasis

Best new blog & Blog deserving of more recognition: THE MOQUOL! Dr. Tom More is the only blogger that keeps me from tearing my remaining hair out in frustration at the sham-ridden politics infecting our nation.

http://www.moquol.squarespace.com/

Best group blog:
Bookslut! Makes me feel like folks are still reedin' good.

http://www.bookslut.com/blog/

best writing: By Neddie Jingo
best post: "Departed This Life" by Neddie Jingo
most deserving of wider recognition: Neil Shakespeare
best single issue blog: Clusterfuck Nation by Howard Kunstler

Thanks to those of you who nominated me (and unsolicited I might add). I was touched. Here are some other deserving folks:

Best Blog - Political Animal, Andrew Sullivan, Digby

Best Pro Blogger: Kevin Drum, Matthew Yglesias, Andrew Sullivan

Best Blog Community - TPMCafe

Best Single Issue Blog - The Daily Howler

Best Group Blog - Tapped, The Reality Based Community (Mark Kleiman), The Left Coaster

Best Writing: Digby

Best Commenter: PollyUSA

Best Series: Eriposte at Left Coaster on the Niger Forgeries

Best New Blog - Unclaimed Territory--Glenn Greenwald

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: The Reaction--Michael Stickings

Best Blog Community
BlondeSense

Best Group Blog
BlondeSense

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
BlondeSense

Best Blog
BlondeSense

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:

The Carpetbagger Report
www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com

Most Humorous Post: Hubris, "Shit Sandwich Suprisingly Tasty; I Give It A B+"

Best Single Issue Blog: Coalition for Darfur

Best State or Local issues: Rhode Island's Future

Another nomination for best post -- By Neddie Jingo! Our Harvest Being Gotten In

Best Blog - BOPNews
Best Writer - Stirling Newberry
Best Blog Deserving Wider Recognition -
Once Upon a Time (Arthur Silber)

Best Blog: Atrios' Eschaton

Best Blog -- Pro Division: Sirotablog

Best Blog Community: Daily Kos

Best Writing: Ezra Klein

Best Single Issue: Feministing

Best Group Blog: TAPPED

Most Humorous Blog: The Poor Man

Best Expert Blog: Mark Schmitt's The Decemberist

Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: Left in the West (MT)

Best Blog(s):

The Carpetbagger Report
Americablog
Think Progress
Talking Points Memo
Daily Kos
The Raw Story

Best Writing: James Wolcott

there were many humorous posts this year. but The New Youth Craze was by far the funniest.

I nominate blah3 for an award. Perfect pitch, perfect blend of news and comment, froma musician, of course.

Blah3 is my web portal and never disappoints.

Best blog: Majikthise, Ezra Klein, Bitch, Ph.D., Michael Berube, Crooked Timber, Pharyngula

Best writing: Michael Berube, Feministe, Shakespeare's Sister

Best group blog: Crooked Timber, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Best expert: Pharyngula, Chris C. Mooney, Brad Delong, The Decembrist

Best series: Obsidian Wings on torture

Most humorous: Fafblog!, Girls Are Pretty, Fanatical Apathy

Deserving wider recognition: 3 Quarks Daily, Deepen The Mystery, The American Sector, Dynamics of Cats, Caolionn O'Connell

Most humorous post: What god Told bush by The Rapture Clock

Warning: extremely obscene language

Almost forgot:

Most humorous: The Poor Man

Best Series: Arthur Silber - On Torture

I nominate David Sirota for Best Writing. David has
a special talent for writing great articles that get
right to the point. Interesting. Great reading.
http://www.workingforchange.com/blog

Best blog: Majikthise
Best expert blog: Pharyngula
Best single-issue blog: The Countess, who concentrates on family law and custody
Best series: The Countess's ongoing series about the documentary Breaking the Silence

I nominate my own blog for 'Most Deserving of Wider Recognition'

a href="http://yakimagulagliterarygazett.blogspot.com/">Yakima Gulag Literary Gazett
and in my humble opinion that is not pointless narcisim, small though my readership is, it is very cosmopolitan and cutting edge. I cover topics related to the gulag I live in and to the Balkans, principally Bosnia Hercegovina and Croatia.
I nominate for Best Blog,

Science and Politics
for best blog, the guy has brainpower that won't quit!
He covers so many things that you could spend days and days reading his blog alone. He is almost too much.
for best single issue blog, I nominate
EastEthia

For best regional or city blog, I nominate
a href="http://www.carniola.org/theglory/index.htm">The Glory of Carniola
He covers the Carniola region of Slovenia

and

Sarajevo1878-1918
This is in Bosnian but if you need to know anything about that era in the history of Sarajevo, boy is it a place to go, and it has wonderful pictures, which alone would be worth the visit

Best Blog (especially for information as well as great people): DNC Kicking Ass blog

Best Blog - Eschaton
Best Blog Pro Division - Talking Points Memo
Best Blog Community - Huffington Post
Best Writing - Legal Fiction
Best Post - Chapter 11: Ann Coulter's Iraq War Argument Files for Bankruptcy
Best Series - Hairy Fish Nuts - Tracking the word desperate
Best Single Issue Blog - Drug WarRant
Best Group Blog - Think Progress
Most Humorous Blog - Jesus' General
Most Humorous Post - The Poor Man - Wingnuttery vs. Wankery
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition - DARE Generation Diary
Best Expert Blog - Talk Left
Best New Blog - Hominid Views, Pike Place Politics
Best Coverage of State or Local Issues - Horses Ass
Best Commenter - theher

Best New Blog: The Moquol (www.moquol.squarespace.com)

One more nomination I forgot for Best Series:

Horses Ass on Mike Brown and FEMA

I hereby nominate:

Legal Fiction (www.lawandpolitics.blogspot.com) for
Best Blog
Best Writing
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

And I also nominate Ezra Klein for Best Series for his absolutely incredible yeoman's work on international health care systems --- The Health of Nations.
http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/health_of_nations/index.html

As you were.

Best Blog: NTodd's DohiyiMir: Excellent podcasts, professional photos, humor, political and historical insight, and superb slaying of trolls. What more could one want?
Best Blog -- Pro Division: Americablog
Best Blog Community: TPMCafe
Best Writing: Orcinus
Best Series: Americablog
Best Single Issue Blog: The Washington Note Steve Clemons (on Bolton)
Best Group Blog: First Draft
Most Humorous Blog: Dependable Renegade
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: DohiyiMir
Best Expert Blog: Pharyngula
Best New Blog: Dependable Renegade
Best Coverage of State or Local Issues: YellowDoggerelDemocrat Stephen Bates (Houston,Tx)

Oops, Anon at 3:50 was me.

[not a problem, nominations may be made anonymously. ebw]

Others for the Best Blog category besides Huffington Post:

News from Underground (Mark Crispin Miller's site)
Science and Politics
Random Thoughts: Unfair and Unbalanced (my own site)

[links please. ebw]

Oops! I meant to self-nominate this thing for most humorous post, not most humorous blog.

But while I'm here, I'd also like to nominate, for Best Blog, Bitch.Ph.D.; I Blame the Patriarchy; Lance Mannion; Sadly, No!; Majikthise; Pharyngula; firedoglake; Kevin Drum; The Poor Man; Hullabaloo; Making Light; Shakespeare's Sister; and Billmon's Whiskey Bar.

For Best Pro Blog, James Wolcott, Talking Points Memo, and David Neiwert (Orcinus).

For Most Humorous Blog, the very manly General J. C. Christian, Norbizness, Opinions You Should Have, Fafblog, and The Poor Man.

For Best Writing: Chris Clarke of Creek Running North, James Wolcott, Lance Mannion, the Rude Pundit, and Shakespeare's Sister.

Best Commenter: Chris Clarke, Norbizness, and of course Paul Deignan. (Only kidding about that last one!)

Best Group Blog: AmericaBlog, Crooked Timber, Pandagon, Feministe, and Lawyers, Guns, and Money.

Best Expert Blog: Cosmic Variance, Pharyngula, Talk Left, Informed Comment, Brad DeLong.

Most Humorous Post: The Wanker-Wingnut Continuum, by The Editors.

And one more self-nomination for "Bush Calls for Disassembling Gitmo." For best post.

[right. i'll just wip out my pomo-digi-chainsaw and surgically extract that post from the surrounding log, er, blog. ebw]

One more...

Best group blog: http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/

Best New Blog and Best Writing:

http://madashell2005.blogspot.com/

What about those of us who are thinking of going pro, but we just haven't made up our minds?

[don't worry. be happy. write well. ebw]