by Matt Barr

Watcher's Council results, March 17

Nominations were announced March 15, votes tallied, chads de-dangled, and results are in:

In the Council category, dymphna at Gates of Vienna was like butter because she's greasy and yellow -- wait, no, on a roll: King Solomon and the Roe Men won a tiebreaker.

So it seems we have sexual freedom and utopia gone sour. Very sour, bitter, and with no possibility of resolution. Is there help for Mr. Dubay? Probably not. Is there hope for Mr. Dubay’s child? Decidedly not. Every child needs a father, but this is one case where half a loaf is indeed worse than none at all. For his money, Mr. Dubay is certainly entitled to reassurance that his former girlfriend will be legally restrained from speaking ill of him to his offspring. And if not for his sake, at least for the sake of the poor kid. His karma already sucks, big time.

Tied in the voting and placing was The Glittering Eye's succinct and persuasive Why the Iranians Aren't Deterred.

I fear (with some evidence) my post, How Evil and Nefarious Do You Think the Bush Administration's Evil and Nefarious Secrecy Policies Are? may have been misconstrued as being a post about how evil and nefarious the Bush administration's secrecy policies are. I run into that problem a lot.

The Crippen Diaries (Week 11) at NHS Blog Detector won the prestigious non-Council event. It doesn't lend itself to excerpting, but is a powerful ground-level account from London of things that make you glad to be against nationalized health care.

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