I’ve voted for Medium-Large each time. It’s worth a look, if the Curmudgeon appeals to you, because it skewers the daily comics (including Sally Forth, which is kind of funny if you know what Ces’s day job is).

Then I voted for Avedon, cause she’s my friend.

He’s very funny, and I read him nearly daily. I can’t see putting CC and Jon Swift in the same category, though. The lowest common denominator to boil them down to, I guess, is technically “humor,” but Swift really is in a league of his own.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2008/10/26/20081026sisters1026a1.html

“Stephanie’s prognosis was grave. She had a 60 to 70 percent chance of survival, her doctors said. Third-degree burns took almost all the skin from her back, chest, face, neck, arms and lower legs. Her organs were strong, her slender body working hard, but there would be months of recovery and years of pain.

Her hands were burned to the tendons. The doctors were able to preserve the cartilage of her nose, but that sweet face full of the freckles she shared with her sisters, gone. The sisters felt like Stephanie was gone, too.Courtney promised to continue her sister’s blog.,,

The four children could come home to Provo, Courtney thought. Already the mother of a newborn, Courtney took Claire, 6, Jane, 5, and Oliver, 3. Another sister took Nicholas, 2.”

One of our finest conservative blogs = plumbbobblog.com

And, hey, I’m not the only, ahem, fan. Look at comment no. 4 in this lovely post:

http://www.plumbbobblog.com/?p=2685#comments

you frickin’ morons.

grow a brain.

J—, by “you guys” I meant the original posters. I don’t know why I thought there was more than one.

…we know who would win if there weren’t infantile nonsense going on.

No! Not infantile nonsense!

(And if there’s actually someone out there who’s odd enough to take the Weblog Awards seriously, I’d recommend that you take a long, soothing soak in a tub of warm chicken fat.)

Panic Bear said,
January 11, 2009 at 2:03 · Edit

I’m actually pretty pissed that you guys slammed Comics Curmudgeon in the course of touting your support for lefty bloggers. CC is hilarious, and while I also like Jon Swift a lot, CC posts a lot more often, and nurtures a very active, fun community on his blog.

I really think you guys should suck it up a little and admit your swipe at CC is out of place here. The other bloggers you slam are your political enemies. CC is just a funny guy who happen to be in the same category as Jon Swift. Leave the innocent bystanders alone.

Oh dear, sometimes humor does backfire. I was just trying to make fun of a guy who posted a picture of himself in his boxer shorts. It was joke on the same level as Bloggess, nominated in the same category, who accused him of wanting to eat kittens and he denied the charge by saying he wanted to eat babies. Of course, whenever you have to explain a joke, you’ve failed. So, call me a loser who spends his days in his boxer shorts reading Ben Shapiro posts and we’re even.

538 is crushing them all like bugs.

I’ll never quite get how Nate Silver went from a guy with a well-selected fantasy baseball team to a national phenomenon, but good on him any which way.

He certainly deserves it a hell of a lot more than Larry ‘bin Laden and black people are a myth’ J.

538 is crushing them all like bugs.

Yes, but Kathy Shaidle also has the vast homosexual liberal fascist conspiracy throwing the vote for her. Oh wait, wrong poll.

Plus, I don’t think there’s one picture of her out there where she doesn’t look INCREDIBLY PISSED OFF.

I keep voting for the Canadian wingnuts, small dead animals, because they’re Canadian.

I keep voting for Ace. He’s the most cookie-cutter indistinct wingnut there is (with the exception of his well-known criticisms of feminine ickiness, but those don’t stand out as much as, for instance, Pammy’s batshittery). I think the “best” conservative blog should be the most mediocre, so – Ace it is.

But among guitar players, there is a true Number One. The one and only one: Yngwie Malmsteen!

To be fair, I don’t think Clif knew who CC even was before now, so maybe his swipe was out of place in that you shouldn’t talk out of your ass about things you don’t really know about.

I would just like to add that Tintin’s single comment in the post is not grounds for Panic Bear’s use of the second person plural. The comments in the thread by regular Sadly, No! commenters have been in the vast majority positive about the Curmudgeon.

But I didn’t know that writing a weblog was a contest. I don’t see how you can have a “winner”, although I don’t have difficulty identifying losers.

Once again, now with urgency, bring back the Cobb Awards! We need them! They keep us honest. Sort of.

I mean this shit seriously reeks of the same high school cliquishness that we’re always getting on the Villagers for. Complete with a cynical attempt at “war” and everything.