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*MAKE YOUR WONKETTE FEEL PRETTY:* Ruh roh, voting for the 2008 Weblog Awards, commonly called the “Bloggies,” ends tonight at 10 p.m. EST. Your favorite Wonkette, which Google News categorizes as satire, earned a nomination for Best Weblog About Politics. If this is confusing to our readers, reconsider the wording of “About Politics,” and in some rare foreign cults we might be considered the “Best” at this. Go vote hooray! [2008 Bloggies]

Jesus christ didn’t the Bloggies just happen? And didn’t they happen just before that, and before that? Everything is an institution, including and especially the beloved blog-award system known as The Bloggies. We are honored to be nominated again as “Best Politics Blog That Hates Politics.” And happy nomination to our comrades Glenn Reynolds and Markos Moulitsas and Arianna Huffiington and John Amato, who have joined us in this rotten pursuit for so many, many years. [The Bloggies]

We have nothing to add to this post on Sam Brownback’s official campaign blog, other than BROWNBACK ‘08!

Why is memory not taught at every level of our educational system
April 11, 2007
The greeks believed in such a discipline and the best became Roman slaves, who taugh the Romans. All around the med this was true. Then Atilla must have given all the slaves their freedom, put them on his payroll, send them to Austria to discover Mozart, and guess what, Rome with out Nomenclators (you look it up) Yep Rome fell. MORE »

Right now in Austin, millions are celebrating the announcement of the 2007 Bloggie Award Winners. And guess who won the Best Political Weblog? That’s right, your beloved Wonkette! MORE »

While we lost the “Most Humorous Weblog” nomination to, uh, Gizmodo, we are honored to be nominated for “best weblog about the politics.” Every year through some mysterious process, people choose these nominees for the annual gala Bloggies event, which is held in outer space.

Here’s how it works: You go to this site and vote for us. You can vote for other categories, too. (We don’t care.) But it’s really complicated, so we’ll give you very specific instructions, after the jump.

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