Unqualified Offerings

Another year, another set of awards. Previous winners can be seen in the original entries. Thanks to Nicholas Weininger, Nell Lancaster and Jonathan Pearse for nominations. Got to dash: the Spouse of the Year wants me downstairs for the ball drop.
Least Dispensible Weblog – Fafblog
Hawk of the Year – Captain Christopher Chown, USMC
Dove of the [...]

Despite the fact that I haven’t done much comics-blogging since coming off hiatus, and despite the large number of absolute stinkers the major companies gave us as the year went on, there was actually a bunch of stuff I liked.
Mother Come Home, by Paul Hornschemeier. Absolutely without question the best graphic novel I read this [...]

A tradition of year-end wrapups means going through your archives for the previous year, and I found this from January:
Gas, a buck sixty-one at the off-brand stations this weekend. Jeez. Could we make it about the oil after all?
A buck sixty-one! [Sings] I wish those days / would / come back again / I wish [...]

For Those Keeping Score – The question that most interested me on learning about the revised DOJ torture memo (pdf) was, What has become of the original memo’s expansive . . . “interpretation” of the commander-in-chief power? (Essentially, the President, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, can do whatever the hell he [...]

“Study: Family, Friends Reduce Quality Internet Time” notes Scrappleface.

Like I Needed a Test

(Via Procrastination.)