Monday, April 03, 2006

TGW -- 2005 Koufax Award Winner


Where's my smelling salts?

This little ol' blog has won a Koufax!

Can you believe it?

I'll be back with more on this asap.

I'm back! Sorry about that, I was stumbling around looking for coffee.

But check out the Bluegrass Report, the Kentucky blog that tied with TGW and so is also receiving a Best State/Local Blog Award!

Congratulations Bluegrass! We're happy to share the honor with you and also pleased to be working with you on the little project of throwing out the bad boy red state regimes!

And thanks to all of you wonderful people for voting for us. Like the saying goes, without you, this blog is dirt!

Want to see the good company we are keeping these days? Here's the official Winner's List copied straight from Wampum:

Best Blog - Non Professional Crooks & Liars
Best Blog - Professional Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo
Best Blog Community -- Daily Kos
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition -- Echidne of the Snakes
Best New Blog Glenn Greenwald of -- Unclaimed Territory
Best WritingDigby of -- Hullabaloo
Best Single Issue BlogJordan Barab of -- Confined Space
Best Expert Blog -- Pharyngula by P.Z. Myers
Best Group Blog -- Shakespear's Sister
Best Post/Bag News Notes for --
Katrina Aftermath: And Then I Saw These
Best Series -- FireDogLake for Plame coverage
Most Humorous Blog -- Jesus' General (Yay!)
Most Humorous Post Dood Abides for -- The Wizard of Oil
Best State or Local Blog --
Tennessee Guerilla Women and Bluegrass Report
Best Commenter -- Georgia10

Congratulations to all the bloggers above and my heartfelt thanks to all those lefty bloggers not on the list who are doing their damnedest to take this country back! We're all 'winners.' And a big thanks to the folks at Wampum for doing the hard work to make the Koufax Awards possible. It's going to take me days and days to stop swooning from this momentous honor.