The 2005 Koufax Awards: Most Humorous Post
Here they are. No explanations necessary, I suspect. Comments closed until all categories are up.
Update: Fixed
2 Political Junkies: What if the Right is Right?
Acephalous: My Morning: A Play in One Uncomfortable Act
Annatopia: Homegrown Terror
And Doctor Biobrain's Response Is...: This Gay Thing
Arms Control Wonk: Baker Spring: The Great Sophist of All Sophists
Bobby Lightfoot and the Orchestra of Sweet Regret: Bobby Lightfoot's Asshole Celebrity Fight Week #1: My FIGHT With Wilford Fucking Brimley
Buck Hill: Also - Why Is There No Pornography On the Internet?
By Neddie Jingo: "It Is Mr. Wu's Considered Opinion"
Cargoweasel: A Joke
Chase Me Ladies, I'm With the Cavalry: Hitchens bellows at students, sobs uncontrollably
Chase Me Ladies, I'm With the Cavalry: The Bore's Craft
Circle Jerk at the Square Dance: Even I could tell Iraq would be a quagmire, and I lick my own ass
Crooked Timber: Taking a Stand by Belle Waring
Daily Kos: BREAKING: Congressional Dems to split with Party? by Smintheus
DailyKos: Dealing With Fitzmas by Georgia10
Daily Kos: The Wizard of Oil by dood abides
Daily Kos: I Worshipped a Squirrel by Bob Johnson
Fafblog! INTERVIEW WEEK 3: Fafblog Interviews TOM DELAY, FUGITIVE!
Fafblog! This Town Needs A War!
Fafblog! Update From the Hunt for Bin Laden
Fafblog! The Long, Jolly Slog
Fafblog! Zen of Iraq
Feministe: On Women and Blogging by Lauren
The Garlic: Top Ten Cloves: Things The Vatican Has Done To Make Good Friday Even Better
Good As You: Another day, another dropped AFA boycott
Good As You: Violence not funny, but ironic names always deliver
Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness: The Monsters of Ax Da President Tour 2005
Hugo Zoom: POWERLINE style
I Blame the Patriarchy: I Dislike Lucy
Jesus General: Less painful than a crucifix
The Kentucky Democrat: Interview with Tina Dupuy, Interview with Bob Wiltfong
Kung Fu Monkey: Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
Legal Fiction: The Knights Who Say Bias
Legal Fiction: The Great Scales of Objectivity
Living the Scientific Life: My Living Will
MadKane: Bush's Crawford Vacation Cannot Be Displayed
Melhi Ink: Melhi for Veep in '08!
Michael Berube: And now a word from our sponsor
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
The Miserable Annals of the Earth: Bush, Cheney Seek One Armed Man
My Left Wing: Herodotus Weeps
Neil Shakespeare: New Jesus Monument Sparks Controversy
Newscorpse: Desperate Whitehousewives Starring Laura "Leno"
No More Apples: Baghdad on the Bayou
No More Mr. Nice Guy! What the guck???
No More Mr. Nice Guy! Space (between Bush's ears): the Final Frontier
No More Mr. Nice Guy! The Missing Sock Problem
Obsidian Wings: I Still Know All About These Kittens by hilzoy
Pandagon: No, John, I'll Tell You What Women Want by Amanda Marcotte
Pharyngula: Link to me, or the Bible gets it! by PZ Myers
The Poor Man: Greate King George and Ye Olde Parchment Paladins
The Poor Man: The Adventures of Battle-Action Bush and the Keyboard Kommandos
The Poor Man: The Wanker-Wingnut continuum
Pulse: The 'Blame Black People First' crowd
The Rapture Clock: What God Told Bush
The Rude Pundit: Cheney At Auschwitz
Spittle & Ink: Sneak Peek at O'Reilly Factor for Kids II
Spittle & Ink: Preview of Chalabi's Speech to American Enterprise Institute
Suburban Guerilla: Woman, Thy Name Is Frailty
Suburban Guerilla: The Republican Ten Commandments
The Talent Show: Michelle vs. Michelle by Greg
The Talent Show: How It Went Down by Greg
Tbogg: Flowers for Goldberg
Tbogg: The All-nighter
Thou Shall Not Suck: Physics Lesson
Three Bulls: Handy! Clip and Save!
TomDispatch: Tomgram: Nick Turse Offers the Seasonal Shopping List from Hell
The Whiskey Bar: Straight Judges Don't Wear Plaid
The Whiskey Bar: A Chorus Line
The Witlist: The Witlist Christmas Special
Yep, another Goddamned blog: "Nobody Move Or The Truth Gets It!"
Comments
There aren't enough riots in the Bible Belt, so I'm voting for my own sacrilegious work:
Pharyngula: Link to me, or the Bible gets it! by PZ Myers
Posted by: PZ Myers | March 4, 2006 01:06 PM
Bobby Lightfoot is insane, so I'm not sure he belongs in this category (or we shouldn't laugh at him, at least).
But my vote goes to: Bobby Lightfoot and the Orchestra of Sweet Regret: Bobby Lightfoot's Asshole Celebrity Fight Week #1: My FIGHT With Wilford Fucking Brimley
Posted by: helmut | March 4, 2006 01:26 PM
Pharyngula: Link to me or the Bible gets it!
Posted by: Torris | March 4, 2006 01:41 PM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
Posted by: Chris Clarke | March 4, 2006 01:45 PM
Michelle Maklin's The New Youth Craze
Posted by: eli | March 4, 2006 01:47 PM
This is easy: Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze was the best.
Posted by: Taylor Marsh | March 4, 2006 02:35 PM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze. I loved it. Dead on parody.
Posted by: pam | March 4, 2006 02:43 PM
Michelle Maklin's New Youth Craze.
Posted by: Lady Dominious | March 4, 2006 02:48 PM
As there are two blogs I absolutely adore nominated in this category as well as for most Humorous Blog - I'm splitting my vote. Twisty Faster of I Blame The Patriarchy for Most Humorous Post!
Posted by: The Fat Lady Sings | March 4, 2006 02:50 PM
It's a no brainer:
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
Posted by: GraceD | March 4, 2006 02:59 PM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
Posted by: Randy Paul | March 4, 2006 03:01 PM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi), The New Youth Craze
Posted by: JDC | March 4, 2006 03:11 PM
Crooked Timber: Taking a Stand by Belle Waring, because if I vote for PZ M*ers in any more categories, you may start to worry that I've been paid off.
Posted by: todd. | March 4, 2006 03:20 PM
Michelle Maklin's New Youth Craze
Michelle explains how evil emo music will lead kids to cutting.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/michellemalkin/2005/02/23/14604.html
Posted by: Michael Hussey | March 4, 2006 03:42 PM
Michelle Maklin's New Youth Craze
Posted by: Debbie | March 4, 2006 03:43 PM
If Myers can vote for himself, so can I:
Acephalous: My Morning: A Play in One Uncomfortable Act
You know that was damn funny, you're just ashamed to admit it.
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | March 4, 2006 04:02 PM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
Posted by: Ann Bartow | March 4, 2006 04:14 PM
Pharyngula: Link to me, or the Bible gets it! by PZ Myers
Posted by: The Captain | March 4, 2006 04:16 PM
breaking the trend, but Berube has been so funny for so long and to have a classic is like good cheesecake
Posted by: spyder | March 4, 2006 04:48 PM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
Posted by: The Heretik | March 4, 2006 05:28 PM
The Poor Man: The Adventures of Battle-Action Bush and the Keyboard Kommandos
Posted by: dean | March 4, 2006 06:11 PM
Michelle Maklin's New Youth Craze (Rox Populi)
Posted by: Sour Duck | March 4, 2006 06:17 PM
I'll go for Thou Shall Not Suck's important experimental work in the physics of sucking.
Posted by: Josh | March 4, 2006 06:17 PM
Michelle Maklin's The New Youth Craze.
Posted by: Lauren | March 4, 2006 06:17 PM
Jesus' General: Less painful than a crucifix
Posted by: Mark H | March 4, 2006 06:30 PM
Roxanne's Maklin post.
Posted by: Hubris | March 4, 2006 06:40 PM
Jesus General: Less painful than a crucifix
(this is perversely hilarious)
Posted by: Sine.Qua.Non | March 4, 2006 06:52 PM
The Poor Man: The Wanker-Wingnut continuum
Posted by: pinkko | March 4, 2006 07:16 PM
The Wizard of Oil by dood abides
Posted by: Raybin | March 4, 2006 07:19 PM
Dealing With Fitzmas by Georgia10
Posted by: thel | March 4, 2006 07:29 PM
The Wizard of Oil, by dood abides (first posted at MLW, damn it!!! and I have the time stamp to PROVE IT!)
MLW post:
(+) The Wizard of Oil
by: dood abides
December 12, 2005 at 17:58:02 America/Los_Angeles
Daily Kos version:
The Wizard of Oil
by Dood Abides
Mon Dec 12, 2005 at 06:04:30 PM PST
Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor | March 4, 2006 07:59 PM
Judging by other comments, the Maklin juggernaut looks unstoppable, but I vote for the Wanker-Wingnut Continuum by The Editors.
Posted by: MattT | March 4, 2006 08:09 PM
My Left Wing, Herodotus Weeps
Posted by: eugene | March 4, 2006 08:21 PM
My Left Wing: Herodotus Weeps
Posted by: sassy texan | March 4, 2006 08:32 PM
The Poor Man: Greate King George and Ye Olde Parchment Paladins
Posted by: GTinMN | March 4, 2006 08:44 PM
Living the Scientific Life: My Living Will
Posted by: IAMB | March 4, 2006 08:52 PM
Neddie Jingo's Mr. Wu
Posted by: Wren Dishon | March 4, 2006 09:00 PM
MadKane: Bush's Crawford Vacation Cannot Be Displayed
Posted by: oldwhitelady | March 4, 2006 09:11 PM
DailyKos: Dealing With Fitzmas by Georgia10
Posted by: FranM | March 4, 2006 09:24 PM
Michelle Maklin's - Roxanne
Posted by: Jody Colley | March 4, 2006 09:26 PM
"the wizard of oil" by dood abides
Posted by: wu ming | March 4, 2006 09:38 PM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
Posted by: PSoTD | March 4, 2006 09:39 PM
I haven't voted for PZ yet, since he seems to be running away with a lot of these, but "Link to me, or the Bible gets it!" gets my vote.
Posted by: Urizen | March 4, 2006 10:10 PM
Pharyngula: Link to me, or the Bible gets it! by PZ Myers
...I think PZ Myers is dreamy. You know, in a dumpy, I've let myself go but I still have a high probability of showering on any given week sort of way.
Posted by: Mike | March 4, 2006 10:22 PM
Michael Berube: And now a word from our sponsor
Posted by: coturnix | March 4, 2006 10:51 PM
Pharyngula: Link to me, or the Bible gets it! by PZ Myers
Posted by: astroprof | March 4, 2006 10:54 PM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
Funniest thing I read all year. Hands down great stuff!!
Posted by: Leo Strauss | March 4, 2006 11:11 PM
Arms Control Wonk: Baker Spring: The Great Sophist of All Sophists
Posted by: Michael Roston | March 4, 2006 11:19 PM
whiskey bar's "a chorus line"
Posted by: thingwarbler | March 4, 2006 11:30 PM
Pandagon: No, John, I'll Tell You What Women Want by Amanda Marcotte
Posted by: bitchphd | March 4, 2006 11:36 PM
Michael Berube: And now a word from our sponsor. Because dammit, I was on fire in the comments.
Posted by: Orange | March 4, 2006 11:40 PM
Fafblog: This Town Needs A War.
ash
['They're still lookin' too.']
Posted by: ash | March 5, 2006 12:06 AM
Kung Fu Monkey: Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
I'm too crazy for my shirt, too crazy for my shirt, so crazy it huuuurts...
Posted by: Paul | March 5, 2006 12:06 AM
the dood! Wizard of Oil. Thanks dood. I really hope you win this one!
Posted by: beagleandtabby | March 5, 2006 12:08 AM
The Rude Pundit: Cheney at Auschwitz
Posted by: neurophius | March 5, 2006 01:06 AM
Kung Fu Monkey: Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
Posted by: Jared Axelrod | March 5, 2006 01:45 AM
The Wizard of Oil by dood abides
Posted by: billybush | March 5, 2006 02:23 AM
Kung Fu Monkey: Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
Posted by: m1k3y | March 5, 2006 02:44 AM
Definitely the Kung Fu Monkey: Crazification Factor
Don't you dare kill Obama.
Posted by: DMc | March 5, 2006 03:12 AM
Pharyngula: Link to me, or the Bible gets it! by PZ Myers
Posted by: shayera | March 5, 2006 03:13 AM
Pharyngula. Link to me, or the Bible gets it!
The comments rival the actual entry for entertainment value.
Posted by: Jules | March 5, 2006 03:18 AM
Kung Fu Monkey, Crazification factor.
Posted by: Thomas Gordanier | March 5, 2006 04:38 AM
The Whiskey Bar: Straight Judges Don't Wear Plaid
Posted by: :-D | March 5, 2006 06:22 AM
The Rude Pundit - Cheney at Auschwitz.
Good for a blood-curdling chuckle at sex and Death Vadar. The darkest, most truthful humor of all.
Posted by: radlib1 | March 5, 2006 06:24 AM
Kung Fu Monkey: The crazification Factor for sure. I've read it over and over again and it's just as funny every time.
Posted by: vaglin | March 5, 2006 07:24 AM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
Posted by: upyernoz | March 5, 2006 08:53 AM
Suburban Guerilla: The Republican Ten Commandments
Posted by: Judi | March 5, 2006 09:09 AM
Kung Fu Monkey: Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor.
Rogers gets it.
Posted by: sean | March 5, 2006 09:14 AM
Michelle Maklin (Rox Populi): The New Youth Craze
Posted by: PansyFaye | March 5, 2006 09:37 AM
The Poor Man: The Adventures of Battle-Action Bush and the Keyboard Kommandos
Posted by: Donna | March 5, 2006 09:59 AM
Tbogg, The All-nighter
Posted by: egregious | March 5, 2006 10:35 AM
Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness: The Monsters of Ax Da President Tour 2005
Posted by: Paul the Spud | March 5, 2006 10:38 AM
I vote for the Kung Fu Monkey and "The Crazification Factor."
Mad, Pulp Bastard - out!
Posted by: Bill Cunningham | March 5, 2006 10:47 AM
Michelle Maklin
Laughed till it hurt....ouch!
Posted by: neoJoe | March 5, 2006 11:30 AM
The Poor Man: The Wanker-Wingnut continuum
Posted by: Rob | March 5, 2006 11:37 AM
Michelle Maklin, The New Youth Craze
Posted by: TravisG | March 5, 2006 11:40 AM
Crooked Timber: Taking a Stand by Belle Waring. The Maklin piece was outstanding, but the largest part of that lay in the comments received.
Posted by: reiii | March 5, 2006 11:42 AM
The Poor Man: The Adventures of Battle-Action Bush and the Keyboard Kommandos
Posted by: scott pilutik | March 5, 2006 12:15 PM
the crazification factor - explains everything you need to know about american politics...
Posted by: jerichothebard | March 5, 2006 12:28 PM
My Left Wing, Herodotus weeps (Raybin)
Posted by: sharon | March 5, 2006 01:08 PM
Suburban Guerilla -- Republican Ten Commandments.
Posted by: flory | March 5, 2006 01:16 PM
The Garlic
Posted by: JTD | March 5, 2006 01:56 PM
27% of voters say "Kung Fu Monkey, Crazification factor."
Posted by: Hadyn Green | March 5, 2006 02:31 PM
The Poor Man: The Adventures of Battle-Action Bush and the Keyboard Kommandos. Made me giggle like an idiot.
Posted by: Charlotte Smith | March 5, 2006 02:35 PM
Rude Pundit
Posted by: emma | March 5, 2006 02:36 PM
Kung Fu Monkey: Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
Posted by: Bill Humphries | March 5, 2006 03:06 PM
2 Political Junkies: What if the Right is Right?
(shamelessly voting for me)
Posted by: Maria in Pgh | March 5, 2006 03:16 PM
tbogg - all nighter but it's hard to pass up the poorman's 'adventures of battle action bush..."
Posted by: mustang sally | March 5, 2006 03:19 PM
The New youth Craze--funniest this year!
Posted by: Geoff | March 5, 2006 03:21 PM
Interview with Wiltfong
Posted by: Daniel | March 5, 2006 04:18 PM
Crazification factor!
Posted by: Darius | March 5, 2006 04:38 PM
The Rude Pundit: Cheney At Auschwitz
Posted by: TF-MA | March 5, 2006 04:39 PM
Kung Fu Monkey, "Crazification Factor"
Posted by: spex | March 5, 2006 05:28 PM
Tbogg: Flowers for Goldberg
I cried while reading Flowers for Algernon, and I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes while reading Flowers for Goldberg.
Posted by: profbacon | March 5, 2006 05:46 PM
Acephalous: My Morning: A Play in One Uncomfortable Act
Posted by: djn | March 5, 2006 06:13 PM
(Nice to be nominated, even if I do suspect that the culprit resides under my own roof.)
As a parodist, myself, I'm a sucker for political song parodies, so I have to vote (and hold aloft my flicked at full flame Bic) for...
No More Apples: Baghdad on the Bayou
:)
Posted by: Melhi | March 5, 2006 06:15 PM
Hahaha, Michelle Maklin, especially if you include the comments. (Although for exquisitely deranged satire, the collective commentary of a Michael Bérubé post is hard to match.)
Posted by: cloudsplitter | March 5, 2006 06:51 PM
Flowers for Goldberg
Posted by: Archibald | March 5, 2006 07:09 PM
The Wizard of Oil; dood abides
Posted by: Frankenoid | March 5, 2006 07:32 PM
TBogg and norbizness on the same ballot-that's
tough.
Vote: TBogg-The all-nighter.
(I'm really sorry that TBogg's stuff about Hannity's
dating service didn't get nominated.)
Posted by: Vivian | March 5, 2006 07:44 PM
Kung Fu Monkey: Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
(Sorry Norbiz.)
Posted by: Montag | March 5, 2006 08:08 PM
"Nobody Moves or the Truth Gets it," at Yep, Another Goddamned Blog.
Posted by: jurassicpork | March 5, 2006 08:42 PM
Suburban Guerrilla - Susie Madrak
Posted by: Anonymous | March 5, 2006 08:54 PM
Michelle Maklin, The New Youth Craze – Even funnier than the other Michelle.
Posted by: fred | March 5, 2006 09:06 PM
Billmon is pretty funny with his chorus line skit and its
and its dialogue coach.
Posted by: Jerry | March 5, 2006 09:44 PM
I'm voting for acephalous, for two categories: 1) most humorous post (for "My Morning: A Play in One Uncomfortable Act) and 2) most deserving of wider recognition
Posted by: Stephen | March 5, 2006 10:02 PM
Pharyngula: Link to Me or the Bible Gets It.
Posted by: afarensis | March 5, 2006 10:55 PM
Feministe: On Women and Blogging by Lauren
Posted by: Anonymous | March 5, 2006 11:01 PM
Michael Berube - Now a word from our sponsor
Posted by: StlInquirer | March 5, 2006 11:13 PM
There can be no question. Dood Abides' "The Wizard Of Oil." The tough Russian judge gives it a 10 for technical merit, style, execution, and casting Condi Rice as the Wicked Witch.
Posted by: Omir the Storyteller | March 5, 2006 11:14 PM
The Poor Man's Battle Action Bush and the Keyboard Commandoes
Posted by: nereus | March 6, 2006 12:02 AM
Fafblog! Zen of Iraq
Posted by: ars | March 6, 2006 12:20 AM
Kung Fu Monkey's Crazification Factor.