This is all about how Unfogged wasn't nominated, isn't it?
You betcha!
No, I kid. This is all about how I failed con law 1.
It's obviously going to be a sweep.
You really think this is going to make up for that Nader vote?
How was Unfogged not nominated for Best Community or whatnot? By the very power of our obsession, we could've lost handily to Kos and his Daily minions!
On another note, I oppose on principle the attribution of deconstructive method to the likes of Althouse. She is no thinker of things subtle and sublime, but merely another run-of-the-mill hypocrite.
Of course, since it's Althouse's notoriety that is driving TMV's votes, she can still claim a moral victory.
I'm not sure that anything other than ludicrous risibility was being attributed to Althouse.
Her ability to claim victories is, I admit, quite impressive.
This gets better and better. In response to a commenter who wonders how Althouse could be losing to a blog with less traffic, she writes,
Goesh: What you need to know is that numerous bloggers who hate me have posted telling people to go vote for TMV. Before that happened I was way ahead.
It was that damn campaigning, which she would never stoop to.
Applying deconstructive reading to Althouse reveals profound and unconcious existential despair, pretty much every single time, and is thus to be avoided.
Althouse's sense of what invalidates (other blogs campaigning for TMV) and what doesn't (her own daily exhortations, her commenters voting from multiple computers) is fun, but the real treat in that line Ogged quotes is "hate." Who hates her? I'm pretty sure we just think she's ridiculous.
What are y'all's guesses on what % serious she is about this award?
Yeah, the "hate" thing struck me too. It makes me think the answer to 13 should be higher than one would like.
Wow, read on. Apparently it's not possible that like eight blogs linking to that poll could produce a swing of 2000 votes. Must be some kind of electronic treachery. The script was sent in code via Padilla's twitching.
Even if she's just joking, she's doing so with such a spectacular lack of, let's say, sprezzaturaUngezwungenheit that she deserves to be mocked anyway.
Yeah, Pogo, failing to understand blog traffic. Pogo, totally convinced. Pogo, dismissive of all dissent, and trying to be funny. I'm not saying that Pogo is Ann Althouse, of course.
Do I get any moral credit around here for the fact that I haven't bothered to post on my blog, let alone beg for votes, since I got nominated for best liberal whatever it is?
This comment is not a plea for votes. It's a plea for praise.
It's not what she deserves that I'm curious about. It's the state of her soul.
"One should have wit, but not want to have it. Otherwise one gets persiflage, the Alexandrian style of wit." Preach on, brother Friedrich.
It's a plea for praise.
I admire you so much, I'm not going to vote for you, for respect of your principles.
I hope she's furiously petitioning whoever's holding those awards to invalidate all votes referred by Atrios. We have the technology, y'know.
Also, I'm pretty sure Pogo is misremembering the numbers.
Boy, if Pogo and Althouse were revealed to be identical, that would be a Christmas miracle.
22: Excellent, thank you. There are better candidates on the list, I'm sure.
Now, if it were a vote for best liberal blogger, that'd be another thing. Also, why don't they have a "best feminist blog" candidate?
if Pogo and Althouse were revealed to be identical, that would be a Christmas miracle.
It would be so very sweet. Unfortunately, I don't think they are.
But think about it. Althouse is up for "best centrist blog". Pogo is a member of the extreme middle. It all adds up.
It would be even more sweet because Pogo's own blog features a recent slam against sock puppetry. But also much more unlikely.
I just now took advantage of the "multiple computer" loophole.
This whole award system seems to be pretty obviously set up by conservatives. In the "best blog" category, I feel like there was a definite tokenism going on with the liberal blogs that were included. (Not that something like Atrios or TPM is, finally, "good.")
jesus, I just went over there and looked at all of the ballots.
I conclude that either
1) I live a very sheltered life over here in liberal blog-land, and so have a distorted view of the prominence of TPM, TPMCafe, ObWi, Atrios, Drum, Crooked Timber, Greenwald, Digby, Yglesias, Ezra K, Billmon, DeLong, TAPPED, and so on; or
2) those ballots are skewed *way* to the right.
In best blogospheric tradition, I shall opt to believe 2.
oh, and I voted for you, BPhD, cause that's just how I feel about you, though I didn't think the category made a whole lot of sense.
Now, if it were a vote for best liberal blogger, that'd be another thing.
surely you mean "bloggress"?
These 'Weblog Awards' are being put on by one of the few remaining Powerline-level Bush-worshipper blogs. Hence, to them, Althouse is a centrist.
Has Unfogged ever won or even been nominated for a blog award?
Unfogged has been the secret, unrevealed winner of every single blog award thus far devised.
Unfogged was nominated for some award hosted by fistfulofeuros, I think. Best overseas blog or some such.
32: One of the major sponsors of the award is Wizbang!, a blog so jaw-droppingly awful even most of the right doesn't take them seriously. You're right to believe 2.
Thanks, world's tallest man. How tall is he? He's 7 foot 8.95, just 2 mm taller than the guy who -- before Bao grew -- was the world's tallest man. That's got to be annoying for Mr. Second Tallest.
Empathy!
Ann is at a conference today.
Yeah, I am here with Jonah Goldberg and a bunch of other conservatives... talking about conservatism. If you've ever really wanted proof that your humble blogger is not particularly conservative, you should see me in this context!
What a strange and magical universe, where being a speaker at a conference for conservatives makes you more of a centrist! "I'm in Cuba at a rally for Castro... if you ever wanted proof that I'm not a Communist, you should see me in this context!"
I think it's technically "blog bitch."
Thanks, KB, although you know that vote is gonna ruin my streak.
Oy. Madison's only a lonely outpost if you confine yourself to batshit insane drivelling on blogs.
...waitaminnit...