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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 pr