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February 23, 2005
Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Wampum announces the 2004 Koufax Weblog Award Winners:
Wampum: 2004 Koufax Award Winners:
Best Blog – Non-Sponsored Division: Daily Kos.
Best Blog – Pro Division: Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall.
Best Writing: Hullabaloo by Digby.
Best Post: l If American Were Iraq, What Would it be Like by Professor Juan Cole of Informed Comment.
Best Series: The Rise of Pseudo-Fascism by David Neiwert at Orcinus and Cheers and Jeers by Bill in Portland Maine at the Daily Kos.
Best Group Blog: Jerome Armstrong, Chris Bowers, and the many diarists at MyDD.
Most Humorous Blog: J.C. Christian’s Jesus’ General.
Most Humorous Post: the Poorman’s Poker with Dick Cheney.
Best Expert Blog: Informed Comment won the vote to become a two-time Koufax Award winner for Best Expert Blog.
Best Single Issue Blog: Jeralyn Merritt’s Talk Left and Scott Henson’s Grits for Breakfast.
Best New Blog: Amanda Marcotte of Mouse Words.
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Suburban Guerrilla.
Best Commenter: Meteor Blades is knonw for his guest blogging at Kos and for his writing at Liberal Street Fight.
Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
During the voting, Amanda of Mouse Words promised: "If I win, I will make a massive ass out myself, with drunken speechifying and boobies."
She delivers on the boobies:
But where is the speechifyin'?
Posted by DeLong at February 23, 2005 04:32 PM
Comments
I agree with almost all of those winners. Where's Brad DeLong?
Posted by: Unstable Isotope at February 23, 2005 05:31 PM
Brad, the link for Juan Cole's entry is incorrect. It should end with ".html", not ".htm"
http://www.juancole.com/2004/09/if-america-were-iraq-what-would-it-be.html
Posted by: anonymous coward at February 23, 2005 05:39 PM
You was robbed! But that's a terrific list all the same...
Posted by: Scott Lemieux at February 23, 2005 07:01 PM
What happened to the category for most intelligent blog?
Last I checked, it's Brad DeLong's.
Posted by: Movie Guy at February 23, 2005 08:35 PM
(Psst, don't let it go to his head. :) )
Posted by: Mandos at February 23, 2005 08:47 PM
"Vell vat did Docteur DeLong expect? Zat he would win? Impossible! Ze cybervoters, zey are a rabble."
- attributed to Valery Giscard d'Estaing by P. Gourinchas
Posted by: MTC at February 23, 2005 11:05 PM
Next year, they need more categories of expert blogs. Cole and DeLong are both experts in their fields, but those fields are so different that it hardly makes sense to have to choose.
Special props to two of the winners: Meteor Blades, whose posts at Daily Kos have always been worth reading, and Digby, who reminds me of nobody so much as Dylan as he was in the early 1960s, in his insight, intensity, and his way with words.
I'm a bit disappointed that Fafblog! didn't win Most Humorous Blog, but Gen. J.C. Christian, Patriot, is a pretty good choice too.
Posted by: RT at February 24, 2005 06:05 AM
Damn! I've got to take a speed reading course.
Posted by: Stuart at February 24, 2005 08:26 AM
Err... did Brad DeLong win the Koufax from 2002? Or was it 2003? Or am I misremembering?
Posted by: Julian Elson at February 24, 2005 10:09 AM
You was robbed!
You coulda been a contenda!
Just kidding. I voted for you and Sommerby in the single issues catagories, and I'm sorry neither of you won. But big congrats to the winners, they are all well deserving!
And Giblets will prevail, eventually.
Posted by: Aaron at February 24, 2005 01:36 PM
The left congratulating itself for Juan Cole would be like the right congratulating itself for Donald Luskin. Y'all have taken leave of your senses.
Posted by: Arnold Kling at February 24, 2005 02:02 PM
Uh, could you point to an article in which Juan Cole does the equivalent of trying to make a point by using a graph of the reciprocal of the number he meant to cite?
Cole may be somewhat more left than center-left... but he's not an idiot.
Posted by: Auros at February 24, 2005 02:09 PM
My pet peeve against this (otherwise very good) blog: dumping course materials that are not particularly connected with topics under discussion.
Sometimes these materials are interesting, but more often than not just incomprehensible for the outsider.
Posted by: piotr at February 24, 2005 04:46 PM
Hey Kling, it wouldn't be too hard to come up with comparative lists of what Cole's been right and wrong about; we've got a few years' worth of his blog archives to dig through.
So, what's he been wrong about? I'll let you go first.
Posted by: RT at February 25, 2005 09:50 AM
There should be "Most Humorous Commentators" category (since the quality of the comments is usually a function of the quality of the blog, the atmosphere and all that) -
undisputed winner sgottabe Unfogged. Them folks is mighty funny.
Posted by: radek at February 25, 2005 03:11 PM
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