I just found out that you can embed polls from the weblog awards on a homepage. Cool.
Supporting us won’t get you a damn tote bag, but you will get regular beer blogging again. And we both know that you can’t get that on NPR.
BTW, during sweeps week this is what counts as an open thread.
***Update***
To the top! BTW, if you haven’t voted lately consider tossing some votes to the Jawa Report instead because (1) I feel responsible for getting them bumped from the conservative category, and (2) nobody seems to know what happened to one of their comments here.
***Update 2***
Seriously, I promise that I won’t bump it again.
Salty Party Snax
How come I can only vote once?
Zifnab
Democracy is a bitch. You’ll need additional IP addresses.
t. jasper parnel
The damn thing has to be rigged if a laughing baby, for goodness, cannot win best video.
John Cole
Hrmm. We are actually in second now.
Odd.
mantis
I think RedState’s total was adjusted down for some reason.
Xanthippas
I think, unlike your competition, you guys have assiduously refused to pimp your blog. Now that you’ve got an embedded poll, it’s much easier to vote for you. And you’re actually closing pretty quickly on Red State, so keep it up fellas…
Xanthippas
And now you’re in the lead. And I can say I was there when it happened, merrily refreshing away.
Wait…should I care this much?
Fledermaus
Where’s the button for Ralph Nader?
*ducks*
Tim F.
Smart idea. You guys don’t want to plumb the depths of what I want to do with the fucking Naderites.
demimondian
Speaking of “interesting” blogs — RawStory has decided that Blogs4Brownback is a spoof site. I wonder whether we’ll be hearing from Psycheout soon, or if his head will have exploded in rage.
John Cole
You guys can laugh at them not picking it up, but if we had not received our advanced degrees (even though we were home-schooled here in the comments) in spoof from DougJ, many of you would think it was real.
ImJohnGalt
I voted for the one at Minnesota airport.
Oh wait, I thought it said best of the top 250 bogs.
[tappity, tappity]
demimondian
Sorry, John, but I just don’t buy it. Word pattern is consistent with your repeated claim that the The DougJ (he whose name is multitude) is Peter Johnson, but he is not Psycheout, nor is he Sisyphus. Nothing I’ve seen on their blog has given me what I needed to convince myself that they were other than sincere.
Dave
actually, I’m voting on my daughter’s computer, it’s a mac.
I hope this helps….
rachel
It’ll have a different MAC address, anyway.
Krista
Must be bad. I think I only recall you ever saying the f-word maybe…twice before this?
Rudi
I just voted, BJ is now in FIRST at just under 23%. Sorry, but thats even lower than W’s 28%.
canuckistani
I twigged to Blogs4Brownback when they started harshing on Godless Heliocentrism. That was sublime spoof.
Michael D.
I had no idea that my own blog, Gay Orbit, is also in the running.
Richard Bottoms
See that’s what you get when you fully face reality. Didn’t hesitate to vote for you.
Bubblegum Tate
Sorry, but this has been making me chuckle: Conservative Authors Sue Regnery Publishing Over Royalties. Seems these guys weren’t quite aware of how this cog in the wingnut welfare machine works. Regnery sells their books for damn near nothing to groups like the Conservative Book Club so that they can then say, “Look at how many we’ve sold! Conservative ideas are just too powerful!” It’s a little scamola to make the books look more popular than they actually are. C’mon, you got your advances already, what are you bitching about?
Dreggas
There is a god!
grumpy realist
Oh yeah, the Regnery thing is going to be pure comic gold if it ever gets to the point of discovery.
As far as I’ve read so far, these idiots are bitching because THEIR BOOKS WERE SOLD AT A DISCOUNT. Oh horrors, bring on the fainting couch. Can someone please draw these clueless nitwits a standard demand curve? (And can someone please remind them that getting a lawyer versed in the publishing industry to read over contracts before they sign them is A Good Thing?)
Someone over at Kevin Drum pointed out that if these “best-selling authors” had the wit God gave geese, the $$$ they could get from speaking fees to the 28% would fully swamp any negation of royaties, so what are they complaining about….
Dreggas
Oh you mean like FOX selling the syndication rights of the X-Files to their sub-company F/X? Is Regnery owned by Murdoch by chance?
Rudi
The server at WA tracks user cookies(I’m guessing), but it doesn’t monitor IP address’. Setup new users on your PC to vote using as many users as you want. Using PHP code may allow hacking, but I’m to lazy to bother. Multiple users allows multiple votes.
Michael van der Galiën
lol why are it only the readers of big blogs who take the time to figure out how to cheat?
;)
It doesn monitor IP Addresses as far as I know, by the way.
Michael van der Galiën
Look at that: the people at the Weblog Awards have decided that Balloon Juice’s lead shouldn’t become any bigger. It’s offline for an hour or so already.
Cheats.
canuckistani
I voted! I feel like I’m in the scene in Casablanca where everyone outsings the Germans singing Wacht am Rhein.
Tax Analyst
Just voted. Looks like a 5-point lead to me. Embedding the ballot in the thread was cool.
Bubblegum Tate
I know–I’m loving it so far. We’ve already got one classic quote:
“Why is Regnery acting like a Marxist cartoon of a capitalist company?”
Free markets, baby!
Rudi
Hans VDG – What is the difference between a link and an embedded link, but just a couple of steps? EU football is for the Frenchman sissies, real men play hockey without face shields. Gordie “Mushroom” Howe Rocks!!
Dreggas
Ex-Navy SERE Trainer Nance to Republicans questioning his record – “I’ll chew your ass out.”.
Jon H
“I think RedState’s total was adjusted down for some reason.”
BLAM! Hahahahaha. ;^)
Chris Johnson
When sweeps week is over can we kill everybody except John and Tim and go back to a fucking sensible political blog again?
capelza
I can’t see the embed thingy anymore…. :(
How’s it going?
Zuzu
Yeah, having a very hard time getting to the polling page…must be totally swamped. Yay, I think.
Regenery lawsuit … they are actually surprised that their books were being sold in bulk?
Wouldn’t the fact that excretions like “Unfit to Read…er, Command” were on the NY Times bestseller list be a bit of a tipoff? I mean how many people did you know who actually owned a copy?
srv
There’s a cookie. The polling page shows up only after 24 hours from your last vote. Otherwise, you get the results.
I think Zifnab’s cavalry call to Kos did the trick.
ConservativelyLiberal
capazela, yay it is! We are in the lead with almost 1,000 votes over RedState! I notice that RedState took the embedded poll down from the top of the front page and are not pushing the vote among their members.
I thought this was a laugh:
Oh my! If RedState loses then they can’t thrive and prosper! Cool, another reason to go vote for Balloon Juice! ;)
Also, I have been voting GOS up and for any random milblogger that is losing EXCEPT Jeff Emanuel. Partisan hacks do not make good bloggers, and Jeff is about as hacked as they get.
Tim F.
I don’t want to sound like I don’t appreciate Zifnab’s effort on our behalf, but his diary had four recommends, maybe fifteen comments and it scrolled off the front page too fast to have an impact. What happened was that as soon as I embedded the poll on the front page our vote count took off and didn’t slow down for several hours. The effect that thing had is amazing.
Xanthippas was 100% completely right, and he probably deserves half of our fat prize check. At least I hope there is a prize check…
Krista
Somebody put on their cranky pants today!
Jody
I will confess, Tim, it was a VERY tough call between Balloon Juice and the incomparable General J.C. Christian. I only wish you could both win.
Tim F.
I have to admit that I had a very hard time promoting this site when he does such an incredible job day after day. It would have eased my conscience oh so much if Wizbang let us compete in the conservative category…
D-Chance.
Since this is a “open thread”, the fun with the ConYank’s advertiser boycott of TNR continues.
tbogg with the highlights and accompanying commentary.
Some can spin (tell me CY is spinning and that he’s not seriously that unaware); some can’t. CY can’t. Not convincingly, anyway.
Zuzu
Yes, my second vote definitely goes to the General.
Michael van der Galiën
It’s amazing to see how you’re blasting the opposition away John, Michael and Tim.
Meanwhile, what gives huh?
D-Chance.
Glad to see all the right-wingers are enjoying their “Iwo Jima” moment. Looking a memeorandum, TWENTY-NINE references to Yon’s photo, almost all reprinting it, many repeating the talking poi… er… WWII connection, some even posting side-by-sides.
A few articles down the memeorandum list, a story about a surge in homeless vets. One in four US homeless are veterans. Funny, ZERO of the twenty-nine bothered to take notice.
Gotta love the way conservatives view their military; use ’em, abuse ’em, then lose ’em.
Howie
OH, BTW, I have no idea what you are talking about when you say, “Bumped Jawa from Best conservative category.” We were always the smallest blog in that category anyway. Always lost not that we cared much. I dunno that we’re all that conservative as a group either. I’ve been reading you off and on for years. I’ve never really considered Balloon Juice a “conservative” blog.
Anyway it’s looking like it’s about time for a concession speech.
All is fair in love and war but politics, now that is dirty.
Congrats and have a good one. Enjoyed running with you and Gateway and Red State.
If you strike us down, we will become more powerful that you can possibly imagine!
Tim F.
Thanks, Howie. I’m frankly a bit stunned by the whole thing myself.