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, Gulag; Abyss; Motorcade; and Grassy Knoll
Ken Grandlund of Common Sense for coverage of health care
Green LA Girl for her series on Fair trade and Starbucks
Hairy Fish Nuts desperate
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
Old Town Review on Medicare
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
Pen-Elayne for Estrogen Month
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
TIA for the Fog of Withdrawal
T. Rex's Guide to Life for With Site Visitors
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