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The 2005 Koufax Awards: Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

This is the hardest of the nomination posts to compile, one reason I chose to do it early this year - hopefully you'll all feel sorry enough for me that you'll send much Pinot Noir and pad thai (well, maybe not together - pad thai goes better with Singha, which I'm also amenable to - or to which I'm amenable.) Or you could just send cash, in large, untraceable denominations.

Below are just under 300 urls for blog most deserving of wider recognition. There were many more, but I do admit to utilizing a litmus test this year: Atrios, AmericaBlog and Firedoglake have quite the following already. Maybe this category can be reserved for the little guys. I won't share with you the exact, very elaborate formula I used, but I'll give you a hint: In order to make the cut, you had to have fewer links than say, us! Very scientific, I know. Also, you have to have at least ostensibly written on lefty politics. If your blog is solely (pun, pun) on your favorite style of Birks, we suggest you submit your site to the Bloggies or Weblog Awards.

Since I've spent all but a few hours of the past 24 (yes, how dare I actually sleep during the 'Faxes), I'm sure that I must have missed a few nominations. I've posted an Open Thread, which will remain at the top throughout the first round of the awards.

Just as in the Best New Blog, I'm not opening comments or accepting votes via email at this time. There are a lot of really good blogs here, guys. Spend some time getting to know them, and be ready to make an informed decision come voting time.

As an aside, I don't generally nominate blogs myself, and this year I won't as well, as my suggestion, to be honest, is more a "moderate" in this political climate. However, with all that is going on in the Middle East these days, I think that Allison Kaplan Sommer's An Unsealed Room offers some excellent insight into life in Israel. You can't vote for her for a Koufax, but feel free to read her anyway.


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2 Political Junkies

3 Quarks Daily

The Abstract Factory

Acephalous

Adventures of the Smart Patrol

Adventus

Agiprop

akou

All Spin Zone

Alternate Brain

American Leftist

The American Sector

Angry Bear

Angry Old Broad

Ang's Weird Ideas

Anne Zook

Anne's Anti-Quackery & Science Blog

Apostropher

Archy

Arms and Influence

Arms Control Wonk

Arse Poetica

Attytood

Axis of Evel Knievel

Bag News Notes

Barely Legal

Bark Bark Woof Woof

Bark/Bite

Bartcop

BattlePanda

Beautiful Horizons

Bilerico

Bill's Big Diamond Blog

Bionic Octopus

Birmingham Blues

Black Prof

Black Feminism

Blah3

Blanton's and Ashton's

Blog Them Out of the Stone Age

Blue Girl in a Red State

Blue Meme

The Blue Republic

Blondesense

Bootstrap Analysis

Bouphonia

Brilliant at Breakfast

Brother Kenya's Paradigm

By Neddie Jingo!

Byzantium's Shores

Capitalist Pig vs. Socialist Swine

The Cassandra Pages

Circle Jerk at the Square Dance

Coalition for Darfur

Coeruleus

The Cognoscenti

Colorado Luis

Comments From Left Field

Common Sense

Conservative Truths

Contrary Brin

The Countess

Creek Running North

CT Blue

Curly Tales of War Pigs

Culture of Life News

Dadahead

Daily Dissent

The Daily Howler

The Dark Wraith Forums

David E's Fablog

Decorabilia

The Defeatists

Deltoid

Democratic Veteran

Demagogue

Den of Iniquity

Dependable Renegade

Dictionopolis In Digitopolis

The Disgruntled Chemist

Doctor Biobrain

Dodecahedron

Dohiyi Mir

Donkey O.D.

DovBear

Driftglass

Dynamics of Cats

Easter Lemming Liberal News Digest

Eccentric Star

Echidne of the Snakes

Effect Measure

Elaine Riggs

Electronic Darwinism

Elementropy

Enemy of the State

ePluribus Media

Ethel, the Early-Warning Frog

Everything Between

Expostulation

Facing South

Factesque

Faithful Progressive

The Fat Lady Sings

Five Wells

Flogging the Simian

Frogs and Ravens

From the Rooftops

The Galloping Beaver

The Garlic: All The Cloves Fit To Peel

Geeky Mom

The Green Knight

Grumpy Old Man

Half Changed World

The Happy Feminist

Happy Furry Puppy Story Time

Hoffmania!

I Blame the Patriarchy

I Cite

Iddybud

Idyllopus

Is That Legal

It's Morning Somewhere

Journalists Against Bush's B.S. (JABBS)

Jesse's Blog

Just A Bump on the Beltway

Keat's Telescope

The Kentucky Democrat

kid oakland

King of Zembla

Lance Mannion

Laughing Wild

Lawyers, Guns and Money

Lean Left

The Left Coaster

Left I on the News

Legal Fiction

Legally Blonde

Lenin's Tomb

Liberal Avenger

Liberal Street Fighter

Liberal Truths

Liberalism without Cynicism

Liberty Street USA

Limbo

Limited, Inc.

Linkmeister

Little Wild Bouquet

Living the Scientific Life

Loaded Mouth

Long Sunday

Looking for Someone to Lie to Me

Low on the Hog

The Low Rent Rat

Mad Kane's Notables

Mahablog

Making conservatives cringe since 1977

Malkin(s)Watch

Mark LeVine

Martini Republic

Media Girl

Meat-Eating Leftist

Merlot Democrats

Metacomments

The Moderate Voice

The Moquol

MoxieGrrrl

Murky Thoughts

Mykeru

My Left Wing

My Very Brain

Naked Under My Lab Coat

Needlenose

Neil Shakespeare

News Corpse

Newshog

Newsrack

The Next Hurrah

Night Bird's Fountain

Nitpicker

No Blood for Hubris

No Capital

No More Apples

No More Mister Nice Blog

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Norwegianity

Nothing New Under the Sun

Nur al-Cubicle

One Woman Wrecking Crew

One Good Move

The Opinion Mill

Opinions You Should Have

Pacific Views

Patridiot Watch

Patriot Daily Blog: thinkings

Pam's House Blend

The People's Republic of Seabrook

Pinko Feminist Hellcat

Political Animals

Political Cortex

Politics in the Zeros

Peace Tree Farm

Past Peak

A Perfectly Cromulent Blog

Phronesisaical

Posthegemony

Prairie Weather

Preemptive Karma

Prometheus6

Progressive Blog Digest

Progressive Gold

The Progressive Trail

PSoTD

The Psychotic Patriot

Pudentilla's Perspective

Pulse

Random Thoughts

The Reaction

Red Grange Run

Redneck Mother

Red State Diaries

Red State Rabble

Republic of T

Resistance

Rhinocrisy

Riley Dog

Rising Hegemon

Road To Surfdom

Saint Nate's Blog

Science And Politics

Scriptoids

Scrutiny Hooligans

Seeing the Forest

Shining Light In Dark Corners

The Sideshow

Simian Brain

Simply Left Behind

Sister Scorpion

SistersTalk

Sisyphus Shrugged

Skimble

Spontaneous Arising

Stayin' Alive

Steven Bates, the Yellow Doggerel Democrat

Stygius

Street Prophets

Stone Bridge

Suburban Ecstasies

Sufficient Scruples

Syria Comment

The Talent Show

Talk To Action

The Tattered Coat

Taylor Marsh

That Colored Fella

Theology&Geometry

Thoughts from Kansas

Thoughts of an Average Woman

Tiny Cat Pants

Tom Watson

To The Audient Void

Total Information Awareness

Unbossed

Under the Same Sun

Upon Further Review

Veiled 4 Allah

The Viscount LaCarte

Xpatriated Texan

xymphora

Waveflux

We Move to Canada

Whatever It Is, I'm Against It

WhirledView

Why Are We Back In Iraq?

Winding Road In Urban Area

Wis[s]e Words

World War 4 Report

World Wide Webers

Yelladog

Yep, another Goddamned blog

Comments

psotd

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Coalition for Darfur.
I would like to retract my vote and change it to this. I made a mistake.
Hard call but I have to go for the coalition.

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Can we just vote for all of them?

If not, I'll go for Norwegianity.

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Another self-vote alert: Phronesisaical.

But so many good ones... Norwegianity, 3 Quarks Daily, By Neddie Jingo!, Neil Shakespeare, Whirled View. I'd encourage any of you not as shameless as I to vote for these folks.

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Random Thoughts. No contest.

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The Fat Lady Sings
More people should be reading TFLS. A wonderful mixture of politics, humor and personal reflection.

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Living the Scientific Life!!! Great Blog!

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Hey,

I'm gonna give a shout out for Living The Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted). There are many different publications and places to gain scientific knowledge, and has compiled an impressive number of them here, interspersed by her own insightful writings. Definitely one of the best blogs around.

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Republic of T

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kid oakland.

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Dadahead

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Liberal Avenger

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Taylor Marsh, man. No contest.

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Phronesisaical is voted Most Deserving of Wider Recognition by me.

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Creek Running North.
I'd pay to read that blog if I had to.

-Jamie

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A harsh category indeed:
Preemptive Karma
gets my vote

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I vote for PastPeak. Ok a decidedly depressing main topic of OIL but Jonathan manages to make it fun and readable and even uplifting at times by dipping into politics and sociology and oh soooo much more.

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Bartcop

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Phronesisaical

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Waveflux

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Norwegianity.

We worship the Wege!

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Norwegianity

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Thoughts from Kansas.

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The Reaction deserves wider recognition.

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phronesisaical

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NorWEG(E)ianity


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Centrisity.com

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The best site that only gets about 2K visits a day when it deserves 250 times that many is:

My Left Wing

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"Only... 2K visit per day"? I agree that My Left Wing ought to have more, but there are quite a few who would love that number.

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Dohiyi Mir

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Lawyers, Guns and Money

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Republic of T.

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This is a great big vote for "The Fat Lady Sings"...
Fabulous writing.

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The maha blog,, hands down...if your not reading this blog,,YOU SHOULD BE

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Dependable Renegade

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Effect Measure, without a doubt. The posts are always
top-class, and if the Reveres would ban that dipshit
Juan, it'd be perfect.

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Naked under My Lab Coat

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PastPeak

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phronesisaical

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kid oakland

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my left wing, for all the marbles

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Dependable Renegade

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Bootstrap Analysis gets my vote- (and she doesn't troll for them either)

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The Disgruntled Chemist. You should see what's going on over there right now.

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The Sideshow

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Lawyers, Guns and Money

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Dependable Renegade

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Legal Fiction

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Phronesisaical certainly deserves wider recognition. If he makes the cut, I want helmut to explain what the blog name means.

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The Galloping Beaver

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Why yes, I will vote for myself! It's Morning Somewhere

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Kid Oakland

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Tiny Cat Pants

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kid oakland

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Norwegianity, for adding some much needed leftiness to the land of Powerline and FratersLibertas.

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My Left Wing, natch.

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Thanks for the mention jacob, and completely understand the call.

As for me, I have to go with

The Sideshow

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Liberalism Without Cynicism

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Thrilled to death to see the Coalition for Darfur here.
Snark only goes so far and hasn't saved anything yet not has it in any way brought up the moral consciousness of anyone.

Coalition for Darfur.

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Akou.

no question.

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Echidne of the Snakes.

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Thoughts from Kansas.

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This one is really hard, I want My Left Wing but it's not struggling as much as Kid Oakland so I go for the KO.

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The Sideshow--Sorry about that, Wege!

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Norwegianity

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Has to be Tiny Cat Pants. Smart, thoughtful, makes me laugh my ass off, daily.

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One vote for Factesque.

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NTodd, please...with a side of fries:-)

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This one could give me headaches into next year. It comes down to three for me: Street Prophets, Bark Bark Woof Woof, and Dohiyi Mir. Given that Bobby just hit 100K hits at BBWW, I think I'm going to pass him over this year (sorry, Bobby!). And of the two, Street Prophets is probably far less well-known than NTodd at DM is.

So I guess that's where my vote's going to go: Street Prophets. (Now I'll probably get banned from BBWW and DM!)

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Lance Mannion

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I'm gonna put in a vote for me! The Fat Lady Sings, of course.

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For some reason I've been left off of the list even though most of my nominations came in this category, but I'll vote for myself anyway. I appreciate the nod for Best Writing and Best New Blog, but I was nominated in this category as well and I think it's overall the best fit. I don't want to be too ambitious after all, and I have another choice for best new blog and it ain't me (which left this as my only chance to vote for myself).

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The Disgruntled Chemist

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My Left Wing

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Fat Lady Sings.

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Creek Running North.

(You'll want to update the link. It's here now.)

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My Left Wing.

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Echidne of the Snakes.

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Dadahead

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Tough call, but of the blogs I like best on this list, I think the least-read one (for god knows what reason) is:

Creek Running North.

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the abstract factory

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kid oakland

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My Left Wing

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Echidne of the Snakes

She rocks!

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I Blame the Patriarchy

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So many deserving entries, but I'll go with Adventus by rmj. Deeply intellectual, spiritual, and political--all at the same time.

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most deserving of wider recognition:
Adventus

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I hereby (hurriedly, ineloquently, but nonetheless) vote Echidne of the Snakes for best writing, best blog, and most deserving of wider recognition (though she may already getting more of that). In the event that I can't do that--if I have to pick one category only per blog, say, and haven't read the rules properly (where would I find them?)--then I'll go with the latter category.

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Bark Bark Woof Woof

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Thoughts from Kansas

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Coalition for Darfur

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Coalition for Darfur

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Norbizness

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I'm voting for that big softie: The Wege.
Norwegianity
If he wins, we're all in line for a hug...

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Gonna have to vote for my daily reads:

Blanton's and Ashton's

Democratic Veteran

That Colored Fella

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NTodd at Dohiyimir

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Mahablog

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norwegianity!

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Way too many choices.

Enemy of the State.