2005 Koufax Awards: Best Series
I have been conducting the Koufax Awards for four years now. The nominations for Best Series this year are by far the most far ranging and difficult to compile I have yet encountered. The nominations run the full range of subjects. We have nominations about Iraq and Katrina, of course. Other nominations include SCOTUS, Latoyia Figueroa, Jeff Gannon, John Bolton, bird flu, Jamie Berube, Zarqawi, lobster sex and many, many other topics. Please read and enjoy.
I am still looking for URLs to Norbizness' Annotated Presidential Comments. If you can help please drop me a line or leave a comment most anywhere on the site and I will add it to the list. As always, if I have left anyone out (and the chances of that approach 100%) please let me know I will do my best to correct the error.
Here are the nominees:
Aetiology on Pandemic influenza
All Facts and Opinions for coverage of Catholic/Anglican Churches & Gays
All Spin Zone for coverage of Latoyia Figueroa
Americablog for coverage of the on Jeff Gannon/Guckert controversy (links on sidebar).
Americablog for coverage of the on Microsoft anti-gay controversy (links on sidebar)
Monkey at Annatopia for The Terrorist Mother Nature
Armando writing at DKos on the SCOTUS
Arms Control Wonk on the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator.
Basie! for interviews with former Presidential candidates Birch Bayh, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Wes Clark, Carol Moseley Braun, Bob Dole and George McGovern (links on sidebar)
Bayprarie at Our Word for Reproductive Rights Week in Review
Michael Berube for his posts about his son, Jamie
Bill in Portland Maine at DKos for Cheers & Jeers
Blanton's and Ashton's series on H.R. 550
Blogenlust's coverage of the endless list of Zarqawi lieutenants and al-Qa'ida number threes
Bitter Greens Gazette on Genetically Modified crops.
Blksista at the Booman Tribune for coverage of Katrina
BostonJoe for his series Advice for Batshit Loopy
BradBlog for 1) Diebold coverage, 2) Baker/Carter Commission coverage, 3) election reform, and 4) Vote rigging
David Brins of Contrary Brin for the series on Modernism and Enlightement: Parts 1-10, 11-15, and 16-17
By Neddie Jingo, for The John Mobberly Story
Matthew Carnicelli of the Democracy Cell Project for The Tao of Politics
The Carpetbagger Report for coverage of the Denver Three
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Steven Clemons of the Washington Note for coverage of the Bolton nomination
Creek Running North for Blog Against Racism Day
Danielle Crittenden writing at the Huffington Post for The Presidential IMs
Crooks And Liars for the Sunday Morning talk show video series
DarkSyde at DKos for Science Friday
The Dark Wraith for The 21st Century Opus 1 thru 4
Democracy Cell Project for coverage of Terri Schiavo
Dhonig at My Left Wing for the Daily Pulse posts
DoDo at European Tribune for Monday Train Blogging (more links at end of the linked post)
Devilstower at DKos for the Doomsday series
DriftGlass for Sunday Morning Comin' Down
Effect Measure for the The Lakoff posts. Links on sidebar)
Emptywheel at The Next Hurrah for coverage of the Judy Miller saga (series links within the linked post) and related matters. See also here, here, and here
eRiposte of The Left Coaster for his series on Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries
eRiposte of The Left Coaster for his series on WMDgate: Fixing Intelligence Around Policy
Facing South on the drowning of New Orleans
Faithful Progressive for the series on the Christian right, Extremely Influential: The Christian Right in America 2005
The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay. A better, direct link to the series is here.
Firedoglake for coverage of the Plame matter
First Draft for Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle
FTS for its series on 1) jack idema, 2) secret CIA prisons and 3) the london bombings (links on the sidebar of FTS).
Gottlieb, at My Left Wing for the Postcard series,
Ken Grandlund of Common Sense for coverage of health care
Green LA Girl for her series on Fair trade and Starbucks
Half Changed World on family and work
Bob Harris for the Poll of the Day
Horses Ass on Mike Brown and FEMA
Doug Ireland of Direland for coverage of international LGBT human rights
It's simple IF you ignore the complexity at MLW for Sabbath Time
Jerome a Paris at DKos for his series about energy markets
Jesus' General for the Yellow Elephant campaign
Jurassicpork for Assclowns of the Week
Ezra Klein for his posts on health care
Law Dork for coverage of the Senate's lynching apology resolution
The Rude Pundit for his Christ Weary series
Left I on the News has three nominations. The first is Resign Now, third is Intelligent Design
Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns, and Money for his Supreme Court coverage
Living the Scientific Life for Birds in the News
Susie Madrak for media coverage such as What About Bob?, Slicing Up The Media Pie, A Whole New World. Whither newspapers?, The Job Of A Journalist Is To Keep His Job, A Free and Unfettered Press, The Media Manifesto, Covering The Circus, The Insiders, Real Journalism, Basics, Earth Is Flat, Some Say, and About the Inky
Susie Madrak on Being Poor in America including Ghost Story, Dog Eat Dog, The Greatest Health Care System in The World, Maybe, Almost Absolutely Positive in a Tentative Way, the Last Time I Ask for Money, Class, Working Poor, and Clearing the Air
Eric Martin for The Sound of One Country Clapping, Part I, Part II
Meteor Blades, Jerome a Paris, and others at DKos for Energize America
PZ Myers for his series on sex. Invertebrate sex that is. Lobster sex Octopus sex Spider Kama Sutra Tentacle sex Tentacle sex, part deux, and Worm porn
Newsie8200 at My Left Wing has two nominations, first for media coverage and, second, for election coverage
No More Apples for coverage of the death of Col. Ted Westhusing in Iraq
Norbizness for his series of Annotated Presidential Comments
No Right Turn for coverage of sedition prosecutions
Katherine and Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings for coverage of the Graham Amendment
Obsidian Wings for coverage of 1 torture and rendition issues
David Neiwert of Orcinus for the "Unhinged, Unhonest" series about Michelle Malkin's book (links on David's sidebar)
Otterside for coverage of Katrina
Pam's House Blend for coverage of Freeper reaction to each new breaking Bush administration scandal
Pam's House Blend for the series on homophobic black pastors
Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon for coverage of the Men's Rights Movement
The Poorman for Keyboard Kommando Komics
The Poorman for the The Golden Winger Awards
Pooflingers for the Lying For Jesus series. The nominee asked that I had this link.
Raw Story for coverage of the Plame matter
Raybin at MLW for 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
Signs of the Apocalypse at The Reaction by Michael J.W. Stickings (links on his sidebar)
The Republic of T for the Zach file
Al Rodgers at Dkos for his Sunday Talk series
RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness appearing on the front page at MLW every day
The Rude Pundit for his Christ Weary series
Sadly, No! for An Assful of Secrets [note: sadly, no! collected all the episodes into a single post - much better than
hunting to and fro through the archives. good sense. ebw]
Science And Politics for a series on Lakoff/Understanding the Conservative Mind . The nominee asked that I add this link.
Scout Prime for coverage of New Orleans post Katrina
Shakespeare's Sister for coverage of the Downing Street Memo
Smintheus at DKos for Awaken the Mainstream Media
SusanG writing at DKos for her coverage of the Gannon/Guckert episode
Swing State Project for coverage of the The Hackett campaign
The Talking Dog, for the "Unlawful combatant interviews" (the six individual interviews are linked within the linked post). Please use caution, the links contains actual journalism
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization
Josh Marshall on the Niger forgeries
TBogg for his Johah Goldberg series
T. Rex's Guide to Life for
Nick Turse of TomDispatch.com for Fallen Legion
Laura Rozen of War and Piece for coverage of the Duke Cunningham scandal.
Laura Rozen of War and Piece on Katrina
War Liberal for coverage of the ongoing saga of Judge Roy Moore
Trish Wilson for coverage of the so called father's rights movement
Trish Wilson for her series on Breaking the Silence: Children's stories
James Wolcott of Tracer Fire for " How do you like it now, gentlemen? Part 1, Part 2 , and Part 3
World o' Crap for the Ultimate Wingnut series
Congratulations to all the nominees. We have now posted the nominations for 14of the 15 categories. While MB and Eric bask in the Florida sun, I will attempt to compile the last category (Best Bog, unsponsored division) and post the nominations soon. Once that is posted, all the categories will be opened for voting.
Comments open only for corrections and errata please. No votes just yet.
No matter what movable type says, I posted this not MB. All the blame is mine alone.
Dwight
Comments
How on Earth will people decide how to vote. There's so much good stuff here.
Posted by: Roxanne | March 2, 2006 01:16 PM
Yes, the truth is that trying to decide on a "best series" or a "best post" or even a "best blog" is a fool's errand. It just can not be done by any objective metric. There are at least 6 nominations in this category that I think are best in their own way.
I am just glad that the decision is not up to me.
Posted by: dwight Meredith | March 2, 2006 01:22 PM
The best way to access it is by using this category. The core of the "series as a series" was actually in 2004 during the campaign season, though.
--- thanks very much. I added it to the list. It was the last URL of the hundreds I needed. I do not know why it was so hard for me to find. Dwight
Posted by: norbizness | March 2, 2006 03:32 PM
Wow - I am absolutely overwhelmed! Thanks so much. And I agree about how wonderful the work is. I am really enjoying reading everything.
I noticed the link for my nomination takes whoever's interested away from my blog. I have gathered everything together here in one place. Could you please update the link so people interested in reading my work will have an easier time of it?
Thank you - I cannot tell you how much this all means to me!
--- I added the direct link. I hope that helps. Dwight
Posted by: The Fat Lady Sings | March 2, 2006 04:02 PM
This may be a better link for my series than the Technorati Search: http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2006/03/looking-for-politics-on-science-and.html
-- I added the link.
Dwight
Posted by: coturnix | March 2, 2006 04:53 PM
Among the missing: I nominated AdvisorJim, Confessions of a Former Dittohead, DailyKos, Carnacki, Got A Happy Story, DailyKos, and *me* (and so I don't feel overly self-promotional, a couple of other people did too) for Saturday Morning Garden Blogging, DailyKos.
So it's easier to find, I posted these in the December 17 nomination thread.
Posted by: Frankenoid | March 2, 2006 05:39 PM
Same boat as coturnix... the permalink for my "Lying for Jesus" series is thus:
http://pooflingers.blogspot.com/2005/08/hovind-files-lying-for-jesus.html
Thanks.
-- I added the link. Dwight
Posted by: IAMB | March 2, 2006 06:20 PM
Raybin at MLW, not MLF.
: )
fixed now; sorry. Why didn't spellchecker catch that? :> Dwight
Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor | March 2, 2006 10:52 PM
Any chance I can consolidate my two nominations into one, for general Judy Miller obsession? I'd add this post:
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2005/11/what_libby_want.html
And this one:
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2005/10/sweet_judy_blew.html
And this one:
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2005/07/is_this_judy_mi.html
And call it a day.
If I were so allowed.
---- Can Do. I will make the changes right now. Dwight
Posted by: emptywheel | March 2, 2006 11:42 PM
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but from where the sick come originally???
to know the true
take a pill, blu or red
here—
http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com/archive.php?eid=1279
vik from milan
Posted by: guerrilla radio | March 3, 2006 05:34 PM
In a world dominated by the products of invertebrate copulation, it's a crying shame that this issue receives so little attention in the blogosphere.
PZ Myers for his series on sex. Invertebrate sex that is. Lobster sex Octopus sex Spider Kama Sutra Tentacle sex Tentacle sex, part deux, and Worm porn
Posted by: PZ Myers | March 4, 2006 12:38 PM
I vote for The Fat Lady Sings. This series on Subic Bay was LOL funny and brought back memories from days long past as a West Pac sailor.
Posted by: George | March 4, 2006 01:50 PM
Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns, and Money for his Supreme Court coverage
Posted by: Roxanne | March 4, 2006 02:02 PM
If a person votes for "PZ Myers for his series on sex," and only a regular expression vote counter sees it, does it make a sound?
Posted by: todd. | March 4, 2006 03:17 PM
Hi,
I would like to cast my vote for Living the Scientific Life for Birds in the News.
Regards,
Scott Lewis
Posted by: Scott Lewis | March 4, 2006 03:20 PM
Birds in the News, Living the Scientific Life.
Dr. GrrlScientist should be duly compensated for that ongoing labor.
-Jamie
Posted by: Jamie | March 4, 2006 03:46 PM
Jaime Berube's life and times by his father Michael Berube (and occassional comments from his mother and brother) are such good sharings.
Posted by: spyder | March 4, 2006 05:18 PM
Although I'm not certain it counts as a "series," I'll go with the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Posted by: the_bone | March 4, 2006 06:17 PM
This is IMPOSSIBLE. But, alas, I must:
David Brins of Contrary Brin for the series on Modernism and Enlightement: Parts 1-10, 11-15, and 16-17
Posted by: Sine.Qua.Non | March 4, 2006 06:32 PM
A lot of good stuff here, but I'll go with Signs of the Apocalypse at The Reaction.
Posted by: Jasmin | March 4, 2006 06:44 PM
Pooflingers Anonymous for the "Lying for Jesus" series.
Posted by: IAMB | March 4, 2006 06:45 PM
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.
Posted by: Minipundit | March 4, 2006 07:07 PM
Modesty be damned all to hell, I'm going to be a shamelessly arrogant prick and vote for my very own Civil War series. :-)
Posted by: Raybin | March 4, 2006 07:16 PM
Berube on Jamie
Posted by: ana | March 4, 2006 07:17 PM
firedoglake coverage of Plame
Posted by: thel | March 4, 2006 07:26 PM
"The Fat Lady Sings" gets another vote!
Posted by: amy | March 4, 2006 07:30 PM
I'll vote for Katherine and me on the GRaham Amendment. Also, would it be possible to change the links for our torture and rendition stuff? The ones you have are sort of broken -- they lead to all kinds of off posts on haiku and stuff. (Thanks to Gray Farber for pointing this out to me.) Better ones are:
Torture: http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/torture_and_detention/index.html
Rendition: http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/maher_arar/index.html
Thanks for all your work.
Posted by: hilzoy | March 4, 2006 07:48 PM
RubDMC for the incomparable Iraq War Grief Series on MLW's front page, daily.
DAILY, man. Dude is COMMITTED.
Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor | March 4, 2006 07:50 PM
The Talking Dog is always insightful, and
his interviews with detainees' lawyers have
caused a national outrage. Well, they're worth
reading, anyway.
Speaking of Guantanamo, the 2oth hijacker at Gitmo
was reportedly tortured with sleep deprivation,
dehydration, forced standing, sexual humiliation,
attack dogs and Christina Aguilera songs.
Those bastards.
Posted by: Britney | March 4, 2006 07:59 PM
Josh Marshall on Social Security
Posted by: MattT | March 4, 2006 08:01 PM
RubDMC Iraq War Grief Daily Witness
Posted by: Cathy | March 4, 2006 08:08 PM
RubDMC's Iraq War Grief
Posted by: eugene | March 4, 2006 08:10 PM
RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness appearing on the front page at MLW every day - incredible. This man knows how to support the troops and the rest of the world.
Posted by: sassy texan | March 4, 2006 08:16 PM
The Rude Pundit for his Christ Weary series
Posted by: pinkko | March 4, 2006 08:26 PM
firedoglake on the Plame affair
Posted by: Wren Dishon | March 4, 2006 08:36 PM
Bill in Portland Maine at DKos for Cheers & Jeers
Posted by: FranM | March 4, 2006 09:05 PM
Um, in an act of very bad form and poor sportsmanship, I am writing in my own series on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General and his role as the architect of the Bush Torture Policy last December and January.
I know it was not nominated, but I think it was my best work.
Posted by: Armando | March 4, 2006 09:07 PM
RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness. we must face this evil with our eyes open.
Posted by: wu ming | March 4, 2006 09:29 PM
Scout Prime for coverage of New Orleans post Katrina
Posted by: virgotex | March 4, 2006 09:40 PM
I give my vote to Norbizness for his Annotated Presidential Comments
Cheers,
Zach Jones
Posted by: zachjones4 | March 4, 2006 09:47 PM
Pooflinger for the Hovind chronicles. That cost a lot of brain cells (for him, not me).
Posted by: argy stokes | March 4, 2006 09:53 PM
Darksyde's Science Friday.
Posted by: Josh | March 4, 2006 09:59 PM
And I thought I was strange for sitting longingly in the corner at sex parties with a bucket of squid:
PZ Myers for his series on sex. Invertebrate sex that is. Lobster sex Octopus sex Spider Kama Sutra Tentacle sex Tentacle sex, part deux, and Worm porn
Posted by: helmut | March 4, 2006 10:13 PM
Ezra Klein on health care.
Posted by: Urizen | March 4, 2006 10:14 PM
Michael Berube for his posts about his son, Jamie
Posted by: astroprof | March 4, 2006 10:40 PM
Americablog for their work on Gannon/Guckert
Posted by: kathyp | March 4, 2006 10:42 PM
I shall continue the trend and vote for myself - The Fat Lady Sings!
Posted by: The Fat Lady Sings | March 4, 2006 10:43 PM
This is the only category in which I will vote for myself (I will have ample opportunity to vote for others in the finals), so: Science And Politics on 'Understanding America'.
Posted by: coturnix | March 4, 2006 11:01 PM
World O'Crap's Ultimate Wingnut Challenge is to reality series and partisan morons what The O'Reilly Factor is to falafels and...partisan morons...Simply one of the best, most incisive, and utterly hilarious flensings of the Right Wing Blogosphere seen in 2005.
Posted by: Scott C. | March 4, 2006 11:03 PM
There they are, right under each other: Firedoglake for coverage of the Plame matter, and First Draft for Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle. Love both of those ongoing bits. Now, which to pick? And the winner is...
Firedoglake for their incredible efforts on Plame.
Posted by: thingwarbler | March 4, 2006 11:05 PM
Blogenlust's coverage of the endless list of Zarqawi lieutenants and al-Qa'ida number threes
Posted by: oldwhitelady | March 4, 2006 11:11 PM
Pharyngula's invertebrate sex series!
Posted by: Torris | March 4, 2006 11:19 PM
I'm voting for Jamie.
Um, I mean Michael Bérubé's series on Jamie Bérubé.
Posted by: Chris Clarke | March 4, 2006 11:21 PM
Definitely Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns, and Money for his Supreme Court coverage.
Posted by: bitchphd | March 4, 2006 11:41 PM
Michael Bérubé's post about Jamie
Posted by: Orange | March 4, 2006 11:45 PM
RubDMC My Left Wing
Posted by: beagleandtabby | March 4, 2006 11:52 PM
First Draft for Holden's Obsession
I couldn't live without it.
Posted by: Buggyq | March 4, 2006 11:59 PM
There we go!
Josh Marshall, social security privatization.
ash
['I can spell that!']
Posted by: ash | March 5, 2006 12:01 AM
RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness @ MLW
Posted by: billybush | March 5, 2006 12:13 AM
HorsesAss.org on FEMA's Mike Brown. It was this story that hastened Brownies ouster, saving untold lives, and set off the cronyism meme to boot. A big scoop for a local blog.
Posted by: Josh | March 5, 2006 12:20 AM
Jesus' General for Operation Yellow Elephant. Some day, some where, some chickenhawk wingnut is gonna break down and enlist-- and OYE will be there when it happens!
Posted by: Sandia Blanca | March 5, 2006 12:21 AM
First Draft/Holden's obsession with the Gaggle
Posted by: gosprey | March 5, 2006 12:27 AM
firedoglake
Posted by: neurophius | March 5, 2006 12:42 AM
DarkSyde
Posted by: RBH | March 5, 2006 01:01 AM
Norbizness
Posted by: JenM | March 5, 2006 01:13 AM
My darling blogmate, Holden, for his obsession with the gaggle. Holden was gaggling before it was cool.
A.
Posted by: Athenae | March 5, 2006 01:21 AM
Firedoglake on the Plame Affair.
Posted by: flory | March 5, 2006 01:23 AM
Bayprairie at Our Word for Reproductive Rights Week in Review because there is a war against women in this country and few others have led the charge against this war like Bayprairie has. Moiv should have been nominated for the same reasons and because she fights the good fight every single day. We couldn't be in better hands than in these two womens.
Posted by: caliberal | March 5, 2006 01:37 AM
SusanG for the Gannon/Guckert series.
Posted by: anonymous | March 5, 2006 02:00 AM
Firedoglake for Plame coverage
Posted by: siun | March 5, 2006 02:12 AM
First Draft for Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle
Posted by: shayera | March 5, 2006 02:35 AM
Pharyngula's Invertebrate Sex Series.
Posted by: Jules | March 5, 2006 03:05 AM
firedoglake - plame
Posted by: op99 | March 5, 2006 03:15 AM
firedoglake for Plame
Posted by: radlib1 | March 5, 2006 03:50 AM
PZ Meyers - Invertebrate Sex is all I can afford these days...
Posted by: Ken | March 5, 2006 05:42 AM
SusanG writing at DKos for her coverage of the Gannon/Guckert episode
In a way I wanted to vote for other nominees more but how could I?
This work is practically historical, and may be said to have driven one of the most interesting and strange, not yet fully explained, political stories around. This bizarre reality is sure to long be an interesting non-enigma and historical asterixe. Also proof of concept for open source reporting.
Posted by: pyrrho | March 5, 2006 06:20 AM
Firedoglake for coverage of the Plame matter
Posted by: :-D | March 5, 2006 06:30 AM
PZ Myers for all his unerring devotion to tentacle sex :-)
Posted by: SusanC | March 5, 2006 06:37 AM
Republic of T.
Posted by: barb | March 5, 2006 07:37 AM
Birds In The News
Posted by: Princewince | March 5, 2006 07:46 AM
The Fat Lady Sings - Subic Bay
Posted by: Anita | March 5, 2006 07:47 AM
Throwing myself a bone...
Ken Grandlund of Common Sense- Health Care series
Thanks for the nomination.
Posted by: ken grandlund | March 5, 2006 08:54 AM
Firedoglake for coverage of the Plame matter
Posted by: Judi | March 5, 2006 08:58 AM
By Neddie Jingo! for his series abour one hard scrabble sumbitch, John Mobberly, and the history that is all around us.
see his latest post from 2006 03 03, on an 18th cent. log cabin in his neighbourhood, w/ great photos. Brilliant!
Posted by: rameau's nephew | March 5, 2006 09:17 AM
Trish Wilson for coverage of the so called father's rights