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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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.
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?
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.Cool it now, JD. You’ve got to slow it down, brotha.
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.
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.
Would an Actus Compendium qualify? Inversely, I mean.
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.
My comment from July 11th at around 1:37pm was trenchant, man, trenchant.
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.
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.
Best series, I nominate Durham in Wonderland.
You really can’t go wrong with anything from this fine blog. The guy who runs that blog is a genius. Quite handsome, too.
I agree with Mr. Mellison, though I must note that he failed to note how well-dressed the author of that particular blog is.
Gee, thanks, mysterious strangers!
“weren’t those names of the members of New Edition?”
I think there was a Kenny in there somewhere.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Liz “Good Lord” Stephans, and anything she’s written this entire year.
Duh.
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
Yeah – I’ll get right on that, Dan…
“Or was it eating out of the toes of Sandy Burglar’s socks?”
Ew ew ew ew ew.
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..
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?
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
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?
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Thanks, BMoe!
Karl’s post on media coverage on Iraq, hands down.
Loggins & Messina’s hard-hitting expose of the “House at Pooh Corner” scandal.
Thanks, mishu!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
Thanks a mill, BJ. I greatly appreciate it.
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.
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.
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?
Speaking of Jeff, anybody seen him around anywhere?
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.
The very best post of the year will be the one you do discussing these.. um.. steel-plated plot devices.
Speaking of Jeff, anybody seen him around anywhere?
You can join us waiting for him over here.
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.
I nominate the reply to the
“Letter from Burma” over at Belmont Club.
Why? Because it tells it like it is without mincing words.
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.
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.