January 13, 2006
The Council Has Spoken!
First off... any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now... the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Perspectives on Foreign Command of U.S. Forces by The Glittering Eye, and Patterico’s Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review 2005 by Patterico's Pontifications. All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post. I actually had to break a tie in the council category this week... the New Sisyphus post was very interesting, but I ultimately cast my lot with Dave Schuler's piece about the problems with putting US troops under foreign command. Only one member was unable to vote this week, but was unaffected by the 2/3 vote penalty. Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week... I'm eager to see next week's entries! Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:
| Votes | Council link |
|---|---|
| 3 | Perspectives on Foreign Command of U.S. Forces The Glittering Eye |
| 2 | Misogyny Day New Sisyphus |
| 1 2/3 | A Little Liberty New World Man |
| 1 1/3 | The NEA: Where's the Democracy and Accountability? The Education Wonks |
| 1 1/3 | "Where Do I Go To Get My Reputation Back?" Rhymes With Right |
| 1 1/3 | Can Liberals and Neo-cons Talk to Each Other? Back to Basics. ShrinkWrapped |
| 2/3 | Villages Don’t Raise Children, Families Do Gates of Vienna |
| 1/3 | Liberal Media Admits BDS Drives Them The Strata-Sphere |
| 1/3 | Bush Is an Assassin? The Sundries Shack |
| Votes | Non-council link |
|---|---|
| 3 1/3 | Patterico’s Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review 2005 Patterico's Pontifications |
| 2 | We Love the Troops; But It's a Tough Love (#144) -- UPDATED Protein Wisdom |
| 2 | Stuck On Thought MaxedOutMama |
| 1 | The New York Times On Iraq, 1993-2005 (Part III) American Future |
| 1 | An Open Letter Vodkapundit |
| 2/3 | The Forever Jihad, Part Five -- The New Front Lines Winds of Change |
| 2/3 | Senator Ted Kennedy To Write (Ahem) Children's Book. Ace of Spades HQ |
| 1/3 | Law, Order, and Judgment The Lipstick Republican |
I thought it would be best to leave out the entries that didn't receive any votes at all. The fractions come from the splitting of the votes... primary choices counted as 2/3 of a vote and secondary choices counted as 1/3. Both counts for primary and secondary choices were then added all together. I could have avoided using fractions, but it would have put the results on a completely different scale... I'd rather that the total reflect how many people actually voted. Please send any questions, comments, complaints, criticisms, crude insults, or thinly-veiled threats to this address
You actually have a good point now that I look at it that way. This was article was more about markup than anything. haha I should restrain myself from commenting in the wee hours of the morning and going on my own rant. cnlogistic A yes I do I agree with you. At the end of the day It’s all about mark up. winrelocation It’s what makes the difference.
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