September 01, 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 Empire and Apocalypse by Gates of Vienna, and Check or Checkmate? Death by Cop on the Global Stage by Kobayashi Maru.  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 non-council category this week...  Ms. Cornelius made an interesting comparison between high school and Dante's concentric Circles of Hell, but I ultimately cast my lot for Kobayashi Maru's bleak analysis of our struggle against Islamofascism.  Two members were unable to vote this week...  but The Sundries Shack was the only member affected 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:

VotesCouncil link
2  1/3Empire and Apocalypse
Gates of Vienna
2Targeted Killings, Moral Consideration
Soccer Dad
2Meanwhile, in Darfur...
Joshuapundit
1Say Anything
AbbaGav
2/3Flag Flapped In Colorado
The Education Wonks
2/3Valid Pedagogical Purpose -– Poor Pedagogical Methodology
Rhymes With Right
1/3Save the Electoral College!
Right Wing Nut House
1/3Pluto Struck Down As Unconstitutional
Socratic Rhythm Method

VotesNon-council link
3Check or Checkmate? Death by Cop on the Global Stage
Kobayashi Maru
2When Teaching School Is Like... A Divine Comedy
A Shrewdness of Apes
1  1/3Shaw's "But" Proves Him an Ass
Caerdroia
1Anchoress Called on to "Retract" Support for Rudy
The Anchoress
1Niall Ferguson on the 21st Century
The Belmont Club
2/3The First Scene of Ehud Olmert's Last Act
Israel Matzav
2/3All the News That’s Fit To Blackout
Blue Crab Boulevard
1/3Walking Among the Tent Camps
Publius Pundit
1/3A Greek Tragedy: Glass Half-Empty
Pixane
1/3NYTimes Watch: It's Not Easy Being Blind
Villainous Company
1/3"Melting Pot" of Victims Shows Depth of Muslim Integration
Point Five

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.

Comments (2)

Awh shucks...
Thank you!

Posted by: Kobayashi Maru at September 1, 2006 01:56 PM

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