Here we go!
This is the category for best of the new crop of bloggers who bore their progeny blog sometime after January 1, 2005. The closest I personally have ever come to receiving a Koufax Award was when I was runner up in this category back when Dwight ran the first year's Awards out of the now defunct (but greatly missed) PLA. If only Roger Ailes had gotten that letter bomb I'd sent a few days earlier, it would have been all mine! All mine! Bwaa haa haa!
Anyway....
Below are the 120 +/- blogs nominated during the month of December. It is quite possible that I missed a one or two (or even a half dozen?), as I'm a little rusty (it has been a year since I last did all this.) So just drop me a note at wampum at nic-naa dot net, and I'll get it fixed before voting begins.
How this is going to work this year, is that I'm not opening comments just yet. This being one of the categories where a majority of the nominees are probably new to most readers, I'm forcing you all to spend at least a little time getting to know the nominees. I'll open up voting after some of the other categories are up, and will update with an announcement at that time.
This is for the first round of voting. The top 8-10 vote recipients (one vote per person, and yes, we have the technology to know if you're just clearing your cookies) will move on to the final round of voting.
Adventures in Ethics and Science (prior url)
The Adventures of the Smart Patrol
Aetiology (prior url)
Agitprop
The Anonymous Liberal
The Anticentenarian
Arvin Hil's Carnival of Horror
BagNewsNotes
Bats Left Throws Right
Battlepanda
Blind in Texas
Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
The Bluegrass Report
Blue NC
BobGeiger.com
Booman Tribune
Born at the Crest of the Empire
Bottle of Blog
Brother Kenya's Paradigm
Buridan's Ass
By Neddie Jingo
A Capitol Blog
Carrie's Bar & Grill
Conservative Truths
Contrary Brin
Cosmic Variance
Crazy Fingers
Dadahead
The Daily Curmudgeon
Danner, Keeps No Company
Daveawayfromhome
The Defeatists
Democracy Arsenal
Democracy Cell Project
Dharma Bums
Dictionopolis In Digitopolis
Dodecahedron
Dos Centavos
Driftglass
The Duck of Minerva
Dymaxion World
Dump Mike Ferguson
Effwit
Empire Burlesque
European Tribune
Evolving Thoughts
The Executioner's Thong
The Fat Lady Sings
Fired Up Missouri
Free the Captives Now
From the Rooftops
The Garlic
A Girl's Guide to the Universe & Other Misadventures
Good as You
Green LA Girl
The Happy Feminist
Healthy Policy
The Heretik
Human Voices
I Blame The Patriarchy
The Impolitic
Incomprehensible Demoralization
Inflatable Dartboard
In the Pink Texas
The Jeffersonian
Left in SF
The (liberal) Girl Next Door
Liberally Speaking
Liberal Truths
Living the Scientific Life (prior url)
The Low Road
Long Sunday
Lydia Cornell
Mad Melancholic Feminista
Making conservatives cringe since 1977
Malkin(s)watch
The Marigold Trail
Merlot Democrats
Mephistophocles
Mia Culpa
The Moquol
My Left Wing
Neil Shakespeare
The Next Hurrah
News Corpse
No Blood for Hubris
Olduvai George
The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks
On the Left Tip
Our Word
Patriot Daily
Pen & Sword
Phronesisaical
Pink Dome
Political Cortex
Pensito Review
The Petrelis Files
Political Cortex
Prawfsblawg
Printculture
Psychotic Patriot
The Questionable Authority
The Reaction
Republic of Dogs
Scout Prime
Scriptoids
Simply Left Behind
Some Watery Thoughts
Spittle & Ink
State of the Day
Stayin' Alive
Stop the Spirit of Zossen
Street Prophets
Sufficient Scruples
The Supreme Irony of Life
Talk2Action
The Tao of Politics
Taylor Marsh
The Terminal Velocity of Sausage
That's Another Fine Mess
Think Progress
Thou Shall Not Suck
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald
Yep, another Goddamned blog
Comments
A vote for Adventures in Ethics and Science.
(That's right, I voted for my own blog. Now I'll just have to live with myself...)
Posted by: Dr. Free-Ride | March 4, 2006 11:49 AM
They're all so good that I think Dr Free-Ride was actually resolving the dilemma of which to pick by simply voting for the first in the list.
There are so many good ones here that I'm going to pick one from the middle: Living the Scientific Life.
Posted by: PZ Myers | March 4, 2006 12:07 PM
PZ's right. This is very difficult. I love so many of these. So, I'll go with myself too, Phronesisaical, and join Janet in shame.
Posted by: helmut | March 4, 2006 12:54 PM
Think Progress
Posted by: Susan Nunes | March 4, 2006 01:21 PM
hey, peeps, i don't think that Living the Scientific Life qualifies as a "new blog"! i truly (truly!!) appreciate your support, but can you pretty please vote for me in a different category, you know, one that i do qualify for? there are seven of those categories and you can learn more about which they are by going here.
to the Koufax Award peeps; PLEASE remove Living the Scientific Life from this category, unless of course, i actually qualify for it (but i don't think i do!).
GrrlScientist
Posted by: GrrlScientist | March 4, 2006 01:47 PM
The Fat Lady Sings - only around for 6 months, and she shows up in 6 categories here!
Posted by: George | March 4, 2006 01:58 PM
Happy Feminist
Posted by: Kate | March 4, 2006 02:03 PM
Adventures in Ethics and Science has become my favorite.
Posted by: Super Sally | March 4, 2006 02:05 PM
BobGeiger.com
Posted by: Steve O | March 4, 2006 02:12 PM
Adventures in Ethics and Science. Yay!
Posted by: Kristin | March 4, 2006 02:13 PM
The Heretik
Posted by: Roxanne | March 4, 2006 02:22 PM
Phronesisaical ...because of the lovely pics, the range of reflections, and because, well, sometimes I don't get helmut.
Posted by: Lauren | March 4, 2006 02:44 PM
Dadahead
Posted by: Sirkowski | March 4, 2006 03:00 PM
Taylor Marsh is the best new blog. Nobody else has political podcasts, man. She rocks.
Posted by: Mark | March 4, 2006 03:14 PM
Happy Feminist.
Posted by: Ann Bartow | March 4, 2006 03:16 PM
Glenn Greenwald Unclaimed territory. What can I say: he's good.
Posted by: Michaelgalien | March 4, 2006 03:34 PM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald -- shining a bright light on the black hole that is congressional oversight
Posted by: The Captain | March 4, 2006 03:47 PM
Phronesisaical
Posted by: Anonymous | March 4, 2006 03:53 PM
BobGeiger.com
Posted by: Carol Urbanski | March 4, 2006 04:06 PM
Another vote for Adventures in Ethics and Science.
Posted by: Bill Hooker | March 4, 2006 04:56 PM
Adventures in Ethics and Science. Very thoughtful, not many posts that just link to something with hardly any comment, good posting rate, and best of all I can understand it with needing a translation from the American.
Posted by: potentilla | March 4, 2006 05:07 PM
Glenn Greenwald - Unclaimed Territory
Posted by: Washington | March 4, 2006 05:08 PM
The Anonymous Liberal
Posted by: Anonymous | March 4, 2006 05:22 PM
Think Progress because i already voted for one of my favorite on this list in another category.
Posted by: spyder | March 4, 2006 05:23 PM
Not anonymous, but not non descript: The Heretik
Posted by: The Heretik | March 4, 2006 05:25 PM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald.
Posted by: coldH2O | March 4, 2006 05:40 PM
Olduvai George
Posted by: Mark H | March 4, 2006 05:51 PM
Bob Geiger
Posted by: Sine.Qua.Non | March 4, 2006 05:53 PM
Phronesisaical
Posted by: Anonymous | March 4, 2006 06:00 PM
Olduvai George
Posted by: the_bone | March 4, 2006 06:05 PM
Unclaimed territory. Greenwald has been learned, incisive, and
first to go where the corporate media's so-called journalists
hardly ever do.
Posted by: rascalsout | March 4, 2006 06:16 PM
Agitprop
Posted by: mokawanis | March 4, 2006 06:19 PM
The Reaction -- by Michael J.W. Stickings.
Posted by: Jasmin | March 4, 2006 06:26 PM
I'll go for The Next Hurrah.
Posted by: Josh | March 4, 2006 06:29 PM
Unclaimed Territory: Glenn Greenwald
Posted by: dean | March 4, 2006 06:33 PM
My Left Wing (Duh!)
Posted by: Raybin | March 4, 2006 06:59 PM
New blog, started January 27, 2006. Can we get listed in the Best New Blogs catagory? www.postanapology.blogspot.com?
--Yes, next year. Dwight
Posted by: Post An Apology | March 4, 2006 07:02 PM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald.
Posted by: Unstable Isotope | March 4, 2006 07:05 PM
Scout Prime
Posted by: thel | March 4, 2006 07:13 PM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald
Posted by: Showman | March 4, 2006 07:28 PM
Some Watery Thoughts (Now Tart Juice)
Posted by: exacalacalac | March 4, 2006 07:36 PM
"The Fat Lady Sings" may be a freshman, but with
senior class and sophistication
Posted by: amy | March 4, 2006 07:40 PM
Some Watery Thoughts (now Tart Juice)
Posted by: exacalacalac | March 4, 2006 07:45 PM
My Left Wing, natch.
Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor | March 4, 2006 07:47 PM
My Left Wing
Posted by: eugene | March 4, 2006 07:48 PM
um, my left wing, please.
Thanks.
Posted by: sassy texan | March 4, 2006 07:55 PM
Doghouse Riley of Bats Left Throws Right. No question here.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 4, 2006 08:04 PM
Olduvai George
Posted by: IAMB | March 4, 2006 08:11 PM
The Fat Lady Sings
Posted by: oldwhitelady | March 4, 2006 08:23 PM
Neddie Jingo
Posted by: Wren Dishon | March 4, 2006 08:26 PM
I Blame the Patriarchy.
Posted by: virgotex | March 4, 2006 08:33 PM
Cosmic Variance
Posted by: MR | March 4, 2006 08:40 PM
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Posted by: P.D. | March 4, 2006 08:46 PM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald
Posted by: Fodor | March 4, 2006 08:53 PM
Cosmic Variance
Posted by: MR | March 4, 2006 08:55 PM
my left wing
Posted by: wu ming | March 4, 2006 08:56 PM
My Left Wing
Posted by: billybush | March 4, 2006 09:07 PM
My Left Wing
Posted by: Cathy | March 4, 2006 09:22 PM
I Blame The Patriarchy
Posted by: pinkko | March 4, 2006 09:23 PM
My Left Wing natch and duh
Posted by: caliberal | March 4, 2006 09:28 PM
Democracy Arsenal
Posted by: Minipundit | March 4, 2006 09:55 PM
Think Progress.
Posted by: Urizen | March 4, 2006 09:55 PM
The Psychotic Patriot
Posted by: JR | March 4, 2006 09:59 PM
Driftglass, with Adventures of the Smart Patrol right behind.
Posted by: Michael | March 4, 2006 10:19 PM
Everyone on the list and State of the Day
Posted by: creature | March 4, 2006 10:24 PM
Olduvai George! (condolences also).
Posted by: Jamie | March 4, 2006 10:46 PM
thinkprogress
Posted by: thingwarbler | March 4, 2006 10:47 PM
The Fat Lady Sings.
Posted by: The Fat Lady Sings | March 4, 2006 10:53 PM
My Left Wing. They're so good, I'm even willing to vote against myself.
Posted by: liberalgirlnextdoor | March 4, 2006 10:58 PM
Adventures in Ethics and Science.
Posted by: coturnix | March 4, 2006 11:11 PM
I Blame the Patriarchy.
Posted by: bitchphd | March 4, 2006 11:11 PM
My Left Wing
Posted by: Pluto | March 4, 2006 11:15 PM
Man, tough one.. I'll go with: My Left Wing.
Posted by: Deano | March 4, 2006 11:20 PM
Dadahead
Posted by: jason | March 4, 2006 11:22 PM
Adventures in Science and Ethics
Posted by: Todd Crane | March 4, 2006 11:28 PM
My Left Wing
Posted by: beagleandtabby | March 4, 2006 11:33 PM
Spirit of Zossen.
ash
['.']
Posted by: ash | March 4, 2006 11:51 PM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald. An instant hero for his cogent analysis and brilliant mind.
Posted by: Sandia Blanca | March 4, 2006 11:52 PM
Glenn Greenwald - Unclaimed Territory. A new must read for me.
Posted by: Kathleen in CO | March 4, 2006 11:54 PM
Think Progress
Posted by: mpower1952 | March 5, 2006 12:20 AM
The (liberal) Girl Next Door
Posted by: neurophius | March 5, 2006 12:31 AM
the fat lady sings
Posted by: cooper | March 5, 2006 12:42 AM
Scout Prime.
Nobody's done a better job on NOLA
Posted by: flory | March 5, 2006 01:02 AM
dymaxion world
Posted by: battlepanda | March 5, 2006 01:13 AM
Anonymous Liberal.
Posted by: Laura | March 5, 2006 01:17 AM
Think Progress
Posted by: anonymous | March 5, 2006 01:47 AM
My Left Wing
Posted by: shayera | March 5, 2006 02:23 AM
The Fat Lady Sings
Posted by: Missouri Mule | March 5, 2006 02:50 AM
The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks
Posted by: Miz BoheMia | March 5, 2006 03:08 AM
My vote is for The Duck of Minerva
Posted by: Rob Kevlihan | March 5, 2006 03:15 AM
Battlepanda
Posted by: pansauce | March 5, 2006 03:16 AM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald
Posted by: op99 | March 5, 2006 03:26 AM
Unclaimed Territory/ Glenn Greenwald
Posted by: Polly | March 5, 2006 03:28 AM
Glenn Greenwald - Unclaimed Territory. A laser-guided buzzsaw through the b.s. of policy and politics.
Posted by: radlib1 | March 5, 2006 05:26 AM
Driftglass
Posted by: Babba | March 5, 2006 05:29 AM
Mia Culpea
Posted by: :-D | March 5, 2006 06:13 AM
Taylor Marsh
Posted by: Jazzcat | March 5, 2006 07:18 AM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald
Posted by: RH | March 5, 2006 07:34 AM
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Posted by: thomas | March 5, 2006 07:45 AM
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Posted by: thomas | March 5, 2006 08:01 AM
Anonymous Liberal
Posted by: Judi | March 5, 2006 08:23 AM
Glenn Greenwald - a rising star
Posted by: Sprinkles | March 5, 2006 08:49 AM
COunt a vote for Mia Culpa please!
Posted by: Pidomon | March 5, 2006 08:55 AM
The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks
Posted by: ken grandlund | March 5, 2006 08:58 AM
The Next Hurrah
Posted by: Donna | March 5, 2006 09:01 AM
by neddie jingo
Posted by: rameau's nephew | March 5, 2006 09:03 AM
Unclaimed Territory.
Posted by: Thomas Allen | March 5, 2006 09:15 AM
Phronesisaical
Posted by: CKR | March 5, 2006 09:38 AM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald.
Posted by: Coldblue Steele | March 5, 2006 09:53 AM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald
Posted by: SouthieFL | March 5, 2006 09:57 AM
Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald
Posted by: Mattsmom | March 5, 2006 09:57 AM
The Heretik
Because he rocks.
Posted by: stacyb | March 5, 2006 10:06 AM
www.bagnewsnotes.com
Posted by: Robert Simmons | March 5, 2006 10:14 AM
Glenn Greenwald's unclaimed territory
Posted by: rev.paperboy | March 5, 2006 10:23 AM
Phronesisiacal
Posted by: Wesley | March 5, 2006 10:25 AM
Driftglass.
Posted by: Paul the Spud | March 5, 2006 10:28 AM
Unclaimed Territory.
Posted by: Joe S. | March 5, 2006 10:33 AM
Unclaimed Territory
Posted by: neoJoe | March 5, 2