I know it’s probably a little early, but I wonder if you wouldn’t indulge me and suggest what you regard as the best posts of the year throughout the entire intartubeosphere, with a little write up on why, please.
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December 6, 2007
Best of the Year [Dan Collins]
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Comment by RonnieBobbyRicky&Mike on 12/6 @ 9:10 pm #
Bob Owens’s post about finding that expert guy about the Bradley FV and how Foer and pals had totally misrepresented the article to him to elicit the answer they wanted. Bob is a very dangerous man to the forces of evil.
Comment by JD on 12/6 @ 9:12 pm #
Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky & Mike. I have no idea why I keep wondering this, or how I might know it, but weren’t those names of the members of New Edition?
Comment by JD on 12/6 @ 9:14 pm #
I would vote for a trio of posts – Jeff G, Patterico, and Wuzzadem all had epic posts about the Gleens right around the same time. Patterico and Wuzzadem focused more on the sockpuppets, while Jeff G just went nuclear on Gleens use of
facts, BS links, etc … All in all, the Triple Crown for ‘07.Comment by RonnieBobbyRicky&Mike on 12/6 @ 9:15 pm #
Cool it now, JD. You’ve got to slow it down, brotha.
Comment by McGehee on 12/6 @ 9:19 pm #
Anyone who nominates something I wrote will get a lap dance from an armadillo.
Not the armadillo, but if you’ve had enough tequila you won’t care.
Comment by JD on 12/6 @ 9:19 pm #
You’ve got to be shitting me. It is sad that I can recall such a random useless piece of obscure trivia, yet I cannot ever remember my better half’s birthday or anniversary, and they happen on the same day every damn year.
Comment by JHoward on 12/6 @ 9:26 pm #
Would an Actus Compendium qualify? Inversely, I mean.
Comment by SarahW on 12/6 @ 10:09 pm #
Do Iowahawk’s parody/satire posts count? Or a Zombietime photoessay?
(I of course, vote for “hover bacon” )
Bob Owen’s collective posts on TNR seem worthy of end-if-year distinction.
Comment by BumperStickerist on 12/6 @ 10:15 pm #
My comment from July 11th at around 1:37pm was trenchant, man, trenchant.
Comment by Kevin on 12/6 @ 10:46 pm #
Google has a cool page. You type in a word, or a group of words, and it gives you a list of thousands of websites that contain those same words!
Neat.
Comment by clarice on 12/6 @ 11:33 pm #
You need categories. Best investigative journo blog; best humor blog, etc. For best humor, I nominate Iowahawk’s Foer article. Scott Ott is always good but Iowahawk’s latest is non pareil.
Comment by clarice on 12/6 @ 11:34 pm #
Best series, I nominate Durham in Wonderland.
Comment by Sean Mellison on 12/7 @ 12:51 am #
You really can’t go wrong with anything from this fine blog. The guy who runs that blog is a genius. Quite handsome, too.
Comment by Sean Mellers on 12/7 @ 12:55 am #
I agree with Mr. Mellison, though I must note that he failed to note how well-dressed the author of that particular blog is.
Comment by Sean M. on 12/7 @ 12:56 am #
Gee, thanks, mysterious strangers!
Comment by The Lost Dog on 12/7 @ 1:08 am #
“weren’t those names of the members of New Edition?”
I think there was a Kenny in there somewhere.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 12/7 @ 1:32 am #
Best post of the year?
Hmmmm….
Any post that says that the Islamo-Nazis will stop when George Bush is impeached.
And there are a LOT of those.
We all know that we had no problem with these seventh century throwbacks until Bush became president. And then HE REALLY PISSED THEM OFF!!! AND THEY CAME OUT OF HIBERNATION TO SHOW THE WORLD WHAT A DICKHEAD BUSH IS, AND HOW HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERY BAD THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD, FROM THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY!!!!!!!! SO CELEBRATE THOSE WHO KNOW THAT NO ONE MEANS US ANY HARM!!!!!
If I remember correctly, Bill Clinton had the “peaceful Islamo-Nazis” eating out of the palm of his hand. Or was it eating out of the toes of Sandy Burglar’s socks?
Really. Who the heck knows? It’s very hard to define “best” when it comes to blogs.
It’s been a long time since we heard from JG, but I would put almost any of his posts in the queue for “best”.
Anyone who can put “andy” (actus?) into a saliva spitting frenzy gets my vote. If I were a Democrat, I would give Jeff all six of my votes.
Comment by Belvedere jones on 12/7 @ 2:13 am #
Seems to me blogging of any note is rather fluid. Though, for example, one could point to the initial typeface post during Rathergate as pivotal, picking one post is tough.
As mentioned, Bob Owens onTNR was strong, as was Durham in Wonderland. Man, talk about relentless.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 12/7 @ 7:40 am #
I second everyone’s nomination of the Durham in Wonderland series. What LGF’s busting of CBS’s phoney Bush memos was to 2004, that guy was to 2007. He gave fresh inspiration to all bloggers that they too can be first rate citizen journalists. Except for the part where he spent thousands of his his own money, flying back and forth doing actual research, that is. But hey, that’s more than many MSM journalists did, too.
Comment by BumperStickerist on 12/7 @ 8:09 am #
Bill Ardolino is deserving of some end-of-year bloglove.
For a time he was a cohost on RightTalk radio with Jeff G. Bill later went and got his ass over to Iraq and did some good work there. I think Bill took his reduction in stature very, very well. Well done, Bill.
Comment by EasyLiving1 on 12/7 @ 8:27 am #
Liz “Good Lord” Stephans, and anything she’s written this entire year.
Duh.
Comment by T-web on 12/7 @ 9:13 am #
These two posts from Instapunk on the use of profanity in left vs. right blogosphere are absolutely fantastic. The basic point was that, based on a search of the most popular blogs, the left uses George Carlin’s seven dirty words about 1800% more often than the right, and that shows a lack of well-formed thought and argument.
They’re made all the better by the fact that so many on the left couldn’t refute his point and just swore at him.
http://www.instapunk.com/archives/InstaPunkArchiveV2.php3?a=991
http://www.instapunk.com/archives/InstaPunkArchiveV2.php3?a=992
Comment by mojo on 12/7 @ 9:34 am #
Yeah – I’ll get right on that, Dan…
Comment by Andrew on 12/7 @ 9:47 am #
“Or was it eating out of the toes of Sandy Burglar’s socks?”
Ew ew ew ew ew.
Comment by The Ouroboros on 12/7 @ 10:03 am #
I gotta go with the piece by Iowahawk’s guest blogger, Dr Kahlid Ahmed M.D. entitled “Well, That Didn’t Work Out So Great”.
Classic Iowahawk… I think’s he’s funnier than Ott though somewhat more longwinded..
Comment by Bender Bending Rodriguez on 12/7 @ 10:14 am #
Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky & Mike. I have no idea why I keep wondering this, or how I might know it, but weren’t those names of the members of New Edition?
Why no love for Ralph Tresvant?
Comment by Semanticleo on 12/7 @ 10:18 am #
I nominate every post demonstrating the futility of the Regressive’s optimism about ‘Victory’ in Iraq.
Oh, this is a further demonstration of repudiation of the boy president, Mr. Bush.
Let’s see his response to military families………
“A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll shows that Fletcher’s skepticism about the war reflects a growing disenchantment within the broader military community, long a bastion of support for the Bush administration and Republicans. Among active-duty military, veterans and their families, only 36 percent say it was worth going to war in Iraq. This compares with an Annenberg survey taken in 2004, one year after the invasion, which showed that 64 percent of service members and their families supported the war.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20071207/pl_bloomberg/a9ebp4zm28g8
Comment by Squid on 12/7 @ 10:48 am #
Cleo, I’m not sure that a news article from Bloomberg really counts as a blog post for the purposes of Dan’s request. Nice try, though. It’s good to know that you haven’t given up hope of being a valued contributor to the community.
Is there a Special Olympics for commenters?
Comment by A fine scotch on 12/7 @ 11:05 am #
Squid,
Since Major John is currently dissatisfying his family, I’ll say it: Don’t engage the Telephone Pole.
Plus, Miss Cleo is still pissed she’s never reached the level of idiocy from actus/andy/monkyboy’s Balloon Fence classic from last year.
Comment by JD on 12/7 @ 11:08 am #
Miss Cleo – If you keep praying, really hard, maybe, just maybe, things will do an about face in Iraq and we will start losing. Oh, how it must pain you to see success. Why do you want us to lose so badly?
Comment by serr8d on 12/7 @ 11:10 am #
Well, of course our host’s post on the Semiotics of “Scott Thomas†is a nominee.
As are Iowahawk’s two posts on the lovely and talented Amanda Marcotte.
The first, to expand your brain and improve overall synaptic and cognitive functionality; those others will improve your cardiac health through laughter.
Still, the best medicine.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/7 @ 11:12 am #
People: Have some respect for semiconsious!
Imagine how many positive news stories from Iraq she had to dig through to get to that poll. Hard work, that!
Oh and semantics clueless: how much of that poll reflects their rejection of Bush and how much reflects their weariness with all of the negative carping from the left, the media and Congress?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Comment by serr8d on 12/7 @ 11:13 am #
Oh, Iowahawk’s posts…first one here;
the next one immediately follows the first.
To have two subsequent posts of such caliber is, in itself, worthy and outstanding.
Comment by B Moe on 12/7 @ 11:23 am #
JG and Karl both had some good readin’ chin-rubbers, I would have to do some research to pick out a favorite serious post. For flat-out low brow greatness I would go with Wuzzadem’s banjo pickin sock puppets, I think.
Comment by Karl on 12/7 @ 11:24 am #
Bill Roggio’s new Iran’s Ramazan Corps and the ratlines into Iraq. As with the turnaround in Anbar, he’s way ahead of the MSM curve.
I also found Amber Taylor’s observations on The Relationship Between Bloggers and Commenters to be particularly astute.
Comment by Karl on 12/7 @ 11:25 am #
Thanks, BMoe!
Comment by mishu on 12/7 @ 11:33 am #
Karl’s post on media coverage on Iraq, hands down.
Comment by mojo on 12/7 @ 11:45 am #
Loggins & Messina’s hard-hitting expose of the “House at Pooh Corner” scandal.
Comment by Karl on 12/7 @ 12:20 pm #
Thanks, mishu!
Comment by Dan Collins on 12/7 @ 12:38 pm #
mojo, I hope you’re not pissed at me. I’m asking not so much because anyone cares what I say on the matter, but because I really am interested in finding out about stuff that I might have missed.
Comment by JD on 12/7 @ 12:45 pm #
I think that Karl’s tour de force on the media perfidy in covering Iraq should be included on anyone’s list of best posts of the year.
Comment by dicentra on 12/7 @ 12:54 pm #
This thread. over at Ace of Spades, wherein the Moron Horde takes on two self-righteous vegans, had me laughing so hard I lost control of my bodily functions.
Not so pretty on my side of the screen, but it was hilarious on the other.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/7 @ 1:00 pm #
The Big Picture by Karl and Jeff G’s analysis of Beauchamp. I’ll have to go with serr8d’s suggestion of Iowahawk’s Panda-manium E-Mails as funniest.
I’d also like to give a special award to Mike Hendrick’s “Why I Still Ride” which might have been the most moving post of the year.
Semamticlipart? Thread jacker of the year.
Comment by Karl on 12/7 @ 1:22 pm #
Thanks, JD & BJTexs!
And at this point I’m launching a pre-emptive thanks to everyone who liked “The Big Picture(s).” I’m dead chuffed that anyone thought to mention it.
Comment by Bender Bending Rodriguez on 12/7 @ 1:44 pm #
I’m dead chuffed that anyone thought to mention it.
I warned you that listening to Art Brut would turn you English. Join the club, my son! The Big Pic(s) and Jeff’s Beauchamp stuff were brilliant…
…but for pure hilarity, I’d have to nominate the 150-odd posts that John and Tim at Balloon Juice did on topics that they know nothing about while linking articles that say the opposite of what they think they said.
Comment by macgruder on 12/7 @ 2:09 pm #
iowahawk’s parody of the marcotte emails was the best post in several years.
durham in wonderland’s posts on the duke case were in many ways the embodiment of why blogging can be a moral force for change.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/7 @ 2:54 pm #
Dicentra: VJay’s long rant a #110 nearly had me peeing myself. Those two poor leaf eaters had no idea what kind of a chipper they walked into.
Unless, of course, they had tried to pull that here. Can you imagine unleashing BMoe, Alpuccinno, happyfeet, McGehee, JD, Darleen, Maybee and some of the other sharp knives in this wood block on those poor dears?
Heh, it would have been a gutting!
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/7 @ 3:01 pm #
I think smegmaticleo has got the makings of a point, there: sometimes the best commentary is provided by life:
Ex-Bill Clinton mistress may vote for Hillary
Comment by Mike on 12/7 @ 3:12 pm #
Thanks a mill, BJ. I greatly appreciate it.
Comment by JD on 12/7 @ 3:20 pm #
BJ – You are really going out on a limb by calling me sharp. I am going to launch a pre-emptive RACIST just in case.
And, Kyoto.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/7 @ 3:21 pm #
Mike:
A good friend of mine is a big, tough, longhaired, potbellied biker dude of almost 40 years. I sent him your piece and he told me he had tears in his eyes after reading it. My wife, who hates motorcycles with a white hot passion, got all chocked up when I read her your piece.
It’s because, in addition to having been really well written, we all knew it came from the heart.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/7 @ 3:24 pm #
JD: If you haven’t read the comments … well … just take a bathroom break before doing so.
Just think about 2 vegans comming to this looney bin with the pompous arrogance of true believers. The thought of the reponses makes me wiggle like a puppy. Can you just imagine what Jeff would do to them?
Comment by A fine scotch on 12/7 @ 3:31 pm #
Speaking of Jeff, anybody seen him around anywhere?
Comment by JD on 12/7 @ 3:39 pm #
Mike – Being a rider myself, that was one of the most moving posts I can recall.
BJ – my single favorite movie scene of all time is in PCU, where they pelt the vegans with raw ground beef. Dead cow raining from the skies. Priceless.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/7 @ 3:52 pm #
The very best post of the year will be the one you do discussing these.. um.. steel-plated plot devices.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 12/7 @ 3:53 pm #
Speaking of Jeff, anybody seen him around anywhere?
You can join us waiting for him over here.
Comment by cynn on 12/7 @ 6:31 pm #
I will say that Karl did indeed do yeoman’s work on the media post. I wish there had been a comprehensive response, but kudos anyway.
Comment by MarkH on 12/7 @ 8:08 pm #
I nominate the reply to the
“Letter from Burma” over at Belmont Club.
Why? Because it tells it like it is without mincing words.
Comment by JD on 12/7 @ 8:33 pm #
Any post that gets andy, Caric and his tebagging buddy timmah, that ass wipe from instaputz, and smegmakkkleo mooning everone in the same comments thread is a good post.
Comment by JD on 12/8 @ 9:41 am #
dicentra & BJ – Thanks for that link to the bean-eater post. Thought of the day ….
Make the world a better place,
Punch a vegan in the face.
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