“The whole thing is a just a vicious meta-snark attack on Ty Cobb, a misunderstood man who in his day made a hell of a salad.” -Culture O’ Truth, via Atrios The official nominations for the first three categories of…

The official nominations for the first three categories of the 2005 Cobb Awards* have been tabulated and checked for inconsistencies and sneaky self-promotion by Michael Bérubé other inconsistencies, and are as listed (with links to follow, in this p…

I usually like what he has to say, but there’s no way to ask a question or add a suggestion. I’ve emailed him, but he’s never gotten back to me.

winner: ReddHedd at FDL!

Josh Marshal is a good “least liberal”. One can write “even Josh Marshall who is hardly a liberal says…” The trick is that the quote should sound liberal, but, since even Josh Marshall supports it, we can prove that it is a mainstream opinion. (see footnote)

In the same vein, one cannot nominate Marshall for the “least humorous”. Or Kos. Atrios on the other hand, gives a stab at humor now and then.

Can anyone explain the concept of “open thread”? Because I have a vague suspicion that they are meant to be funny, I nominate Atrios for “least humorous”. Atrios is a good man, but his cats…

Footnote: shouldn’t we have “Most mainstream” category, meaning the combined score of least humorous, least liberal and least original, plus whatever mainstream qualities a nominator may notice?

Everyone’s doing their last-minute, no-foolin’ begging for votes in the Koufax Awards, because the voting closes on Sunday night. It threatens to draw attention away from the Cobb Awards. I mean, we could send the evil cat minions over, but……

1. Least Humorous: Drum in a dullslide. There was this one post a few months ago where he literally said, ‘My first instinct was to just make fun of X, but instead I will upchuck yet another turgid slab of mind-bending water-treading dullness that makes Ann Althouse look like the doyenne of partisanship.’ (slightly paraphrased) … sadly, Greenwald is a rising star in this category as well. But also megafrists to Chadwick on Atrios … like Preznit Give Me Turkee was slightly funny the first time, but the 1,000th serving of its leftovers, not so much.

2. Most Deserving of Less Recognition: EschatamericaTboggblog

3. Worst Community: Dave Neiwart, but only cos I can’t get his comments to work. But I imagine his comments are lively. So, instead, Atrios, where there are more ‘Goodnight JohnBoy’ comments on a single open thread than there would be on an alien planet that based its entire civilization on The Waltons.

The community business has already been discussed. I would agree that atrios’s comments section is, by any objective standard, considerably worse than Kos’s. But I can much more easily ignore it, since it’s haloscan – even when I do, by some horrible mistake, open up one of atrios’s threads, it’s so incoherent that I just close it in moderate irritation. Kos, on the other hand, lures you into comments and diaries and so forth, only to remind you that 90% of the people there are crazy and stupid. And instead of just closing it in moderate irritation, I always feel compelled to read on and get more and more annoyed.

Given these two features, I feel that Kos is also quite deserving of less recognition – certainly he gets such an insane quantity of recognition (I just came upon his mug in a US News & World Report in the doctor’s office) that he’d still be pretty fine with even a tiny bit less.

It’s only natural with the overwhelming number of visitors that it have a lot of crazies
Then again, it can also be remarkably stupid and naive.