September 28, 2007

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 Cosmic Ironies by Bookworm Room, and Rafael Medoff: Columbia "Invites Hitler to Campus" -- As it Did in 1933 by History News Network.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  The Education Wonks was the only member unable to vote this week, and 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  2/3Cosmic Ironies
Bookworm Room
1  2/3The Human Touch
Big Lizards
1  1/3Gates' Iraq Agenda Short On Democracy
Cheat Seeking Missiles
1A Big Hole in the Desert (and in the story)
Soccer Dad
1Point of Inflection
The Glittering Eye
1How The Arab Lobby Works
Joshuapundit
1Columbia Dhimmis Get Ahmedinejad Earful! Some Applaud, Some Laugh -- We All Should Just Cry...
‘Okie’ on the Lam
2/3"Jena 6" Update
The Colossus of Rhodey
1/3Krugman Spews Race-Baiting Bile
Rhymes With Right

VotesNon-council link
2  1/3Rafael Medoff: Columbia "Invites Hitler to Campus" -- As it Did in 1933
History News Network
2Islam and Marxism -- A Marriage Made In Allah's Socialist Paradise
Dr. Sanity
1  2/3The Next Iranian Revolution
Reason Magazine
1  1/3The Ugly Side of Bob Herbert
The QandO Blog
1  1/3Acting On Principle Rather Than On Policy
The Paragraph Farmer
2/3Review of 'The Kingdom'
Crossroads Arabia
2/3Gays, Haircuts, Nooses. Some Denial Required.
Classical Values
1/3Musharraf Will Resign From Army
Captain's Quarters
1/3Abourezk, Part 3
Elder of Ziyon
1/3There's Slanting a Story, Then There's This Doozy.
The Sundries Shack

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.

Posted by Watcher at 05:42 AM |
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Comments (1)

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.

Posted by: tshuntong at October 7, 2007 04:03 AM
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