The sad thing about this is that the limit votes to 1 per IP address per 24 hours, and I actually thought about reconfiguring my router to use the other 3 IP addresses I have allocated so I could vote 4 times.

Posted December 6, 2005 12:25 AM by Rich McAllister

Ach. As usual, there's no category for Best Comment Threads, much less one for Best Spontaneous Outbursts of Formal Poetry, or Best Parodies and Pastiches, or any of the other local specialties.

Eh. It's a poll. As Patrick says, "Life Imitates High School." Really, I just wish there were parity of egoboo for excellent weblogs like Languagehat and Pharyngula, whose subject matter is unregarded by most best-of polls.

Posted December 6, 2005 12:30 AM by Teresa Nielsen Haydent

I'd like to vote, but I'm not willing to install Flash to do so...

Posted December 6, 2005 1:02 AM by Julia Jones

Ick ick ick. It's run by Wizbang, one of the most odious blogs in all Dementia.

And they can't even spell "Hullabaloo."

Posted December 6, 2005 1:52 AM by Andy Vance

I don't have enough Flash for them.

Sorry.

Posted December 6, 2005 9:35 AM by Jo Walton

Agreed with the Flash difficulties. I have to have sufficient flash for work, so I was able to load it in IE Tab, but sheesh...why is Flash 7 required for something so simple?

BTW, Making Light is (as of the time of this comment) 2nd to what appears to be a liberal politics blog on Blogspot called "firedoglake". Whatever it is, they've currently got over three times ML's votes...

Posted December 6, 2005 11:08 AM by Skwid

Done deal. It looks like you are up to 201 votes now. I will vote again when I get home (is that wrong? :D)

Posted December 6, 2005 11:09 AM by James Goodman

I couldn't vote at home, not having Flash there, or the right flavor of Flash or something, but I've just put you up to 251 votes -- now in second place!

Posted December 6, 2005 12:26 PM by Lois Fundis

You seem to be holding second place quite well with a 267
Firedoglake with 747
Making Light with 267
Hullabalo with 205

Posted December 6, 2005 1:00 PM by Cass Marshall

I'm just glad I didn't have to choose between you and Miss Snark.

Posted December 6, 2005 1:43 PM by Dave Kuzminski

My vote took us up to 345! This may be a first for me. Not only was I never in contention for any popular position in high school, I was frequently not even aware there was a vote until it was over.

Posted December 6, 2005 5:12 PM by Lin Daniel

Jo Walton:

I don't have enough Flash for them.

Sorry.

It's okay, Jo. I voted on your behalf. 381.

(At the moment, Making Light is third.)

Posted December 6, 2005 8:00 PM by Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey

Allow me to say that if you're not reading Firedoglake or Digby's Hullabaloo, you're missing two of the most consistently insightful political blogs on the net.

Firedoglake is the charismatic newcomer, specializing in obsessive dissection of Plame-o-rama. Digby is, on the other hand, smart today, smart yesterday, smart tomorrow. They're both outstanding.

Posted December 6, 2005 9:41 PM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Firedoglake is absolutely wonderful, and as Patrick says, the place to go for all things Traitorgate. They're tops on Plame, and excellent on Abramoff and Delay, too.

Posted December 6, 2005 10:26 PM by Beth Meacham

Pat - Congrats on your nomination!

We have not been here in a few months, but we'll get back to the old visit sched.

Posted December 6, 2005 10:58 PM by Gotham Image

Michael Berbube is nominated in the next category down. Let's all vote for him, too.

Posted December 7, 2005 4:31 PM by Kathryn Cramer

This somehow seems like the right thread in which to alert you to Kevin Drumm's readers trying to figure out what to make of the Christian subtext of the Narnia books.

Posted December 10, 2005 1:47 PM by Kathryn Cramer

If someone with Flash would like to cast my vote for me, feel free!

Posted December 11, 2005 10:49 AM by Jean Rogers

Ha! I just turned the number of your votes to 666.

He He He!

Posted December 11, 2005 7:43 PM by Squrfle