Vote early, vote often, over at Wizbang!. Try not to vote for yourself (I've decided not to, but you most certainly are allowed to).

Of course, if I win the glory goes to Julie of Blogmoxie, because she'd definitely deserve it. (My nomination is in the "best design" category.) Still, I approved the new look of the blog, so there's that.

Going over there and voting for your favorite blogs is also a great way to get exposed to a lot of excellent writers you wouldn't otherwise be reading. Even if you don't actually vote, it's a lovely roundup of the best web writers out there.

And, you know—vote or die.

Now be good.

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The leading council entry was from Sundries Shack: "John Kennedy, A Man for Our Times".

The leading non-council entry was "A Failed Revolution," courtesy of Iraq, the Model. (Please remember to scroll down to "A Failed Revolution," if necessary—he is a blogspotter.)

For full results, and links to a few posts that are truly excellent, please hop over here.

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Is it me, or is Jeff of Beautiful Atrocities being just a little bit arch in his descriptions of Barbara Boxer's fiction? I mean, here she is trying to ply her trade in the literary vineyards, and Jeff comes along just stomping all over her fledgling efforts.

I knew right-wing bloggers stifled people's dissent. I never realized before tonight that they also stifled creativity.

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. . . got her boobs chopped off today. (I mean, as plastic surgery, apparently by someone who knew what he was doing.)

So I guess she's gone from a G cup to an A. Quite a transition.

"How will I know you when I see you?" I ask.

"You'll have to look at my face," she responds. And I wonder how much of a transition it will be to her friends, who probably regarded her chest as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. I think those things were visible from space.

My day will come, but I won't go all the way down to A. I think a B-C cup would do it. We'll see.

I told a friend of mine about the Breat Reduction Surgery, but she informed me that I was "speaking a language" she couldn't understand. My stepmother and my grandmother understood completely: over Thanksgiving we discussed all the things we couldn't do that more svelte women could.

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1 Thanks. Now my mind will not allow me to get any work done today

Posted by: William Teach at December 02, 2004 06:21 AM (KCG7N)

2 Well, thank goodness you said a doctor did that. I mean, when you ponder the concept of "backalley abortions" the idea of "backalley breast reduction surgery" is the next logical step.

Posted by: Laurence Simon at December 02, 2004 06:51 AM (uBCxH)

3 On the other hand, svelte women can't do the "pencil test" with an IBM Selectric like we can. And do, oftimes. It's a swell party trick.

Posted by: LeeAnn at December 02, 2004 07:09 AM (vqSdN)

4 Now, every real male is wondering: Pictures? Will she post pictures? Of course not! You are a cruel woman.

Posted by: Ranten.N.Raven at December 02, 2004 07:20 AM (CgkPo)

5 Wow... why would she go all the way down to A? Wasn't FFF far enough? :-(

Posted by: Watcher at December 02, 2004 08:31 AM (Xupid)

6 There's a G cup? The mind boggles.

Posted by: Jeff Harrell at December 02, 2004 09:40 AM (UAuME)

7 Congrats on being nominated for Best Blog Design for the 2004 weblogs awards.

Posted by: William Teach at December 02, 2004 11:27 AM (TFSHk)

8 Right. And I've been meaning to post on that, too. Where are my manners?

Posted by: Attila Girl at December 02, 2004 01:38 PM (SuJa4)

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Le Sabot:

Yushchenko comes off much tougher than he did at the press conference announcement, which only gave the bare points. But this has been a day that gave with one hand and took back with the other.

- Yushchenko has lifted the blockades. But he's vowed to keep to the streets until he gets a solid date on a new vote, and changes in the voting laws. He's given the working group 24 hours to come up with them.

- Yanukovych was voted out as PM, taking away his ability to steal votes administratively. He has refused to accept this, and Kuchma can veto the vote, if he wants to spend the political capital doing it.

- Yushchenko is standing firm in his demand for a repeat of the 2nd round, rather than the completely new elections Kuchma wants.

I saw a statement by Solana, the chief EU intermediary, that it could take up to a month to perform the necessary legal changes. Kuchma is saying it might take three months to have a new vote. Bartender, I'll have whatever they've been drinking. There's no way the Opposition is going to let their people sit in the snow for 3 months. The only way even the one month time-frame is conceivable is if it comes with some sort of iron-clad, double-strength insurances. And I'm having trouble thinking of what those could be.

It begins to look like the situation might be resolved without bloodshed, and for once the country might be truly united, rather than torn into two: a Ukranian segment and a satellite of Russia.

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The Ukraine, Oh My!—

Tuesday, at midnight, Kuchma's constitutional term of five years as President ended. Theoretically, Ukraine is without a president.

Via Tulipgirl.

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. . . has the raciest holiday skin I've ever seen.

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1 "Holiday skin" is right. (Wasn't that the name of Hole's little-known album of punked-up traditional Christmas music?)

Posted by: Jeff Harrell at December 02, 2004 09:33 AM (UAuME)

2 well, that was an interesting piece of spam, eh?

Posted by: William Teach at December 02, 2004 02:43 PM (cuTsc)

3 Ugh. They hit every entry, going back at least a week and a half. I'll have to go through methodically later on and clean the rest of it out.

Posted by: Attila Girl at December 02, 2004 03:47 PM (SuJa4)

4 hehe thanks Attila ;D. I had the idea to 'moon' xmas, and look where it got me! Rawr!

Posted by: goldie at December 02, 2004 06:50 PM (YboA1)

5 Before Xmas Eve you'll need your own traffic cop. Personally, I'm still wondering about the physics of the underwear worn by the woman in the illustration. But that's me

Posted by: Attila Girl at December 02, 2004 11:16 PM (SuJa4)

6 Hah! Know any good lookin' traffic cops? I might be needing one . Seriously, that Julie has a lot to answer for. My Xmas skin, your nominated design... she searched for AGES to find my pic and I just adore it. I too wonder about exactly where the underwear goes, and then I decide that ignorance is prolly bliss

Posted by: goldie at December 03, 2004 03:37 PM (DHOFC)

7 This one is, uh, interesting.

Posted by: Brian O'Connell at December 04, 2004 08:44 AM (pvgsd)

8 Love your site! Good luck at the awards. About your blog being the raciest xmas theme, I think my blog may have yours beat in that department. I got booted off of blogsnob because of it! I wouldn't change a thing. Happy Holidays!

Posted by: James at December 09, 2004 02:43 PM (OtYHV)

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