As we learned earlier, there’s a best-of-the-blogs award thing going on this week. How we survived the nomination process is anyone’s guess, and once that happened, simply everything started going to hell, such that we’re currently in the opposite of last place, in the category of ‘blogs that are less popular than Firedoglake, but more popular than The Iowa Voice.’ Or, in their parlance, the ‘top 251-500’ — according to that Truth Laid Bear blog-ranking ecosystem that, well, whatever that is. We’re something like a Skateboarding Aardvark, according to them.

It’s unclear whether the Best Blog banner rights are transferable (i.e. can be sold on Ebay), and we plan to find out about this, assuming we win, which is, like all things, up to King Jesus.

But as we know, the important thing in life isn’t so much winning, but making conservatives lose and feel bad. And in this regard, the one result that absolutely must not come to pass — whatever Jesus might have to say about it — would be to have conservative author and columnist Austin Bay, of the Austin Bay blog, gain second place over Michael B?rub?, of Michael B?rub? Online.

Austin Bay (bad)

Briefly, Bay must lose. Furthermore, there isn’t even any such place as Austin Bay, since Austin remains, to all recollection, an inland city. His is a name outmatched in geographical malapropism only by that of author Camden Joy — and it will likely remain so unless the German customer-service representative Virginia Urban marries and hyphenates with a man named ‘Planning.’

Therefore, we here at Sadly, No recommend that ev

Therefore, please continue voting for me, Michael, and this blog right here, just as you have been doing. And don’t vote for Sadly, No until l say so. Thanks!
-Michael