Some finalists of note, (from the Weblog Award Finalist Page):
Best Blog
Hot Air
Daily Kos
Huffington Post
Gawker
Ben Smith – Politico
The Consumerist
Andrew Sullivan
Comment is free…
Boing Boing
Threat Level Wired Blogs
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Who even ARE some of those??? Hot Air has a good chance because it’s the only good choice for conservatives that I can see.
Best Individual Blogger
Amanda Hill – Shamelessly Sassy
Vilmar – The Urban Grind
field negro
The Anchoress – The Anchoress
Lindsay Beyerstein – Majikthise
Rachel Lucas
Melissa Clouthier
Jules Crittenden
Jo – Southern Sass on Crime
Driftglass
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Some good ones to choose from in there….
Best Conservative Blog
Victor Davis Hanson
RedState
Ace of Spades
Power Line
Eject, Eject, Eject!
Plumb Bob Blog
Michelle Malkin
American Thinker
Blue Collar Muse
small dead animals
Little Green Footballs
Right Wing Nut House
The Next Right
Atlas Shrugs
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Some good ones in there, too, but we morons have to stick together. And where’s Gateway Pundit???
Best Military Blog
From My Position… on the way!
The War on Big Tobacco
Blackfive
Michael Yon
This Ain’t Hell
One Marine’s View
Op For
Army of Dude
Milblogging,com
Knee Deep in the Hooah!
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Again…lots of good ones! This Ain’t Hell is in the Moronosphere, I believe.
Best Very Large Blog (Authority between 501 and 1,000)
Indecision 2008
Pandagon
The Washington Note
Right Wing News
Patterico’s Pontifications
Bitch PHD
protein wisdom
Ross Douthat
The Blogess
Jesus General (?!)
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Jesus General? You’ve GOT to be kidding me. I remember when that asshat used to troll AoSHQ.
Best Large Blog (Authority between 301 and 500)
Sister Toldjah
DeSmogBlog
Miss Cellania
JammieWearingFool
Bloggasm
skippy the bush kangaroo
The Agonist
Fafblog
Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms
Whatever
Most of them, I’ve never heard of. JWF, and Sister Toldjah are both good. (Looks like the Weblog people are starting to add the links).
Best Midsize Blog (Authority between 201 and 300)
Zomblog
Betsy’s Page
The Sideshow
Israel Matzav
Argghhh!
Rod 2.0
At Largely
Scholars And Rogues
Suburban Guerilla
Hoyden About Town
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AHEMMMMM:
Best Small Blog (Authority between 101 and 200)
Chatting at the Sky
A Blog for All
Exurbanleague
Pirate’s Cove
Nice Deb
Mutiny.in
The Glittering Eye
Woman Honor Thyself
Rumproast
Black Women, Blow The Trumpet
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There’s really only ONE choice, here.
Best Up And Coming Blog (Authority between 51 and 100)
Simply Left Behind
If Mom Says OK
The Stupid Shall Be Punished
Daled Amos
McClatchy Watch
Savage Politics
The Sundries Shack
The Colossus of Rhodey
Connecting the Dots
Phoenix Arizona East Valley Living
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I’ll have to do some research on this one…
Best Hidden Gem (Authority between 0 and 50)
Hip Young Thing
Zuky
The Pajama Pundit
Susan Katz Keating
Dizzying Intellect
Science Text
The Communist Dance Party
Deadenders
The Median Sib
Oh Gosh
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Oh yeah! Go Cotillion sister, Carol!
Go pay her a visit, and say a prayer for her little granddaughter, Lily, who has recently been diagnosed with leukemia.
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Voting begins January 5th. If it’s like last year, I believe you can vote once a day.
Congratulations to all, and may the best blogs win.
Nice Deb 
It’s getting more cultish all the time. Funny looking soap too.
Have a great New Year!
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You too.
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Wooo-aaah!
I _still_ love yours and rank it in the best of the best.
For arts & crafts & great pics, Alison Paulson’s blog exudes home comfort:
http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/
-Charity
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Thanks, Charity. I love arts and crafts. Is Alison a weblog finalist?
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nicedeb, I don’t recall ever trolling Ace’s place, and there’s no reason I would. We are comrades in arms in the war against brownislamunistosatanicofascism. I’d proudly hold his tinfoil any day. You just gotta love a guy who’s so into death cards.
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Whatever toots your horn, asshat.
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You just gotta love a guy who’s so into death cards.
One of the seven warning signs of an unhinged lib: getting all wound up about Ace’s header.
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I can see why he doesn’t want to remember trolling at Aces, though. He got his ass handed to him.
It’s no fun when the gol’darned Christofascists fight back.
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nicedeb, I don’t recall ever trolling Ace’s place
…another of the seven warning signs of an unhinged lib: compulsive lying.
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…but I suppose that, strictly speaking, he did say “don’t recall.” Which is sad in its own light.
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Notice what?
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Oh Gosh…it’s going to be fun to go back and read that… Amish was “Mission Accomplished”.
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Warden:
Hey, getta hold of that dude’s crazy blog handle! General JC Christian!
Oh, man! I’m cracking up! Lemme guess, the JC stands for Jesus Christ! Ha!
And, uh, the General part is some kind of ironic something ‘cuz wingers jack off to brown people getting killed, right? I got it, didn’t I?
Oh, man, dude. You are on FIRE! Keep sticking it to the wingers!
Ace:
It’s like he’s invented some new form of comedy… where he…
I’m not sure what he’s doing… but he seems to be… does this sound crazy? he seems to be saying something while using an arch tone to suggest he means the precise opposite!
Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?!
Why isn’t this guy on SNL? He could have his own character– “The Guy Who Says Something But Doesn’t Mean It At All Guy.”
I could see that playing for ten, twelve sketches at least. It’s that damn good.
Heh!
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For someone who you don’t like, you seem to spend a lot of time talking about Teh Gen’l. He’s more humourous than you, but right-wingers aren’t particularly funny. At least not intentionally.
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For someone who you don’t like, you seem to spend a lot of time talking about Teh Gen’l.
Not really. I was just surprised something that lame was still around, and in a very large blog category.
His little splash in that thread at Ace’s was memorable, what can I say.
Hey. You know what would be humorous? Mohammad General. He should go troll some Jihadi site as Mohammad General…that would be hi-larious.
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Doesn’t “Teh Gen’l” have anything better to do than troll blogs?
Judging from the tired content over there, I guess the answer is no.
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Also – LMAO at Mohammed General!
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LMAO!!! Bamapachyderm!!!
BLOME!!!
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Note how BinA resolutely ignores the fact that Teh Gen’l was wrong – he tries to recast the issue to blame us for knowing he was wrong. Typical liberal ploys – fog up the issues and move the yardsticks.
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I had another comedian visit this post:
He really had me going…these Jesus Gen’l folks are hard to spot.
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Wrong about what – having trolled Ace’s?
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Wrong about what – having trolled Ace’s?
Uh, yeah. Or weren’t you following the discussion?
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Not too closely, but even so, it’s obvious that the commenter in question was being facetious. You thought he was trying to deny it, and you caught him in a lie?
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Uh, yeah. The first sentence was obviously straight – the rest was facetious. And dull-witted, being rejected material from 5 years ago.
Nice Deb said he trolled Ace’s. A commenter at his site said she was confusing him with someone else. He came by to affirm that he hadn’t trolled Ace’s, and then doled out a helping of snark. Without the snark, I wouldn’t have bothered with the 30 seconds I spent finding the thread he had trolled.
Doesn’t matter really – NiceDeb’s original point stands, and he’s clearly an asshat, making her 2 for 2.
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His first sentence was: “I don’t recall ever trolling Ace’s place, and there’s no reason I would.”
The last half of that sentence is clearly facetious. Of course he would troll Ace’s place — trolling conservatives is pretty much what he does. He trolls conservatives by email every single day.
How well he recalls specific cases, I can’t say.
The commenter you mentioned was also being facetious. He wrote: “Genrul,
a conservative blogger named ‘nicedeb’ has you confused with some “asshat” who used to troll Ace of Spayeds HQ. I thought you would want to know.” Notice: Ace of Spayeds.
The General didn’t come here to “affirm that he hadn’t trolled Ace’s.” Why the hell would he do that? He came here to make conservatives look like fools, Geoff. Congratulations.
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Oh My! Foiled again by teh Genrul, just like he got us at Aces!
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Of course he would troll Ace’s place — trolling conservatives is pretty much what he does.
Could be. I’d never heard of the guy. But what you just said is far more damning than anything we’ve ever said about him. Talk about the lowest of the low…
He trolls conservatives by email every single day.
By email? That’s even worse. Does he know you say these things about him?
Notice: Ace of Spayeds.
What would the side swipe at AoSHQ have to do with whether what he said was true or not?
The General didn’t come here to “affirm that he hadn’t trolled Ace’s.” Why the hell would he do that?
Duh gee Tennessee, I don’t know. Maybe because he was innocent and wanted to avoid having his good name smeared? But you tell me that I’m being far too generous and that he doesn’t have a good name, which I’m entirely willing to believe.
He came here to make conservatives look like fools, Geoff. Congratulations.
Could be. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve given a lib too much credit. But what ND and I both said was true, and objectively substantiated, so I’m not feeling too bad. And if his intent was to make conservatives look like fools, he should maybe practice or make sure he gets a good breakfast in the morning.
He’s pretty weak.
And with that, I bid you adieu. You’re no longer more interesting than CFD cases that won’t run.
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I’m sure they’re all having a good laugh at your expense, Geoff, God love ya.
If you could just put down your bible for one dang second, you could battle these trolls more effectively.
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Put down my bible? How would I know how to vote? And wouldn’t I turn Islamic?
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