The Watcher on Mar 10 2010 | Filed under: Nominations
The New York Times tells of how the National Enquirer put together the John Edwards story.
Pulling together reporters to dig into the rumor, Mr. Levine began something that once seemed unthinkable: not only the downfall of a presidential candidate with a meticulous image, but, for the sensational tabloid, something resembling respectability.
By being the first [...]
The Watcher on Mar 10 2010 | Filed under: Nominations
I am Soccer Dad. I am the new Watcher. Welcome.
There have been two previous Watchers. The original and lately Watcher #2. Plus JoshuaPundit helped out with Watching duties for a bit at the end of last year.
The first Watcher created a weekly challenge in which 12 bloggers would submit one of their own articles plus [...]
The Watcher on Mar 08 2010 | Filed under: Nominations
Do you remember when you were little, and you were picking up teams for sports, there was always one kid who no one wanted? The one kid who was so inept he ensured that his team would lose. Yes it was cruel. But it was often correct.
Well the global warming has that kid. Paul Ehrlich. (h/t Instapundit)
Sphere: Related [...]
The Watcher on Mar 07 2010 | Filed under: Nominations
Neo-Neocon writes, answering the question as to whether President Obama has done irreversible harm to the country:
But Obama has become a loose cannon, and American is suddenly not the rock it used to be. And I wonder if we ever again will be regarded in the same way.
Instapundit (offering no rationale) isn’t as certain.
Anyone else [...]
The Watcher Emeritus on Mar 03 2010 | Filed under: Nominations
Hi. I wanted to get these submissions up early because I will be on the road most of the day.
Each week, the members of the Watchers’ Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest for the week’s best post. [...]
The Watcher Emeritus on Feb 24 2010 | Filed under: Nominations
Conventional wisdom says I am supposed to start this article by pointing out that John McCain is a war hero.
Conventional wisdom sucks.
There are some truths in the world and it is certainly a truth that a young John McCain was the hero we all knew him to be. But nowadays John McCain is doing an [...]
The Watcher Emeritus on Feb 17 2010 | Filed under: Nominations
Please enjoy this week’s submissions. They represent the finest examples as sought out and found by the Watcher’s Council and passed onto you as exhibit A in the quest to expose weasels digging holes in your backyard. Many of the Weasels you are about to read about have been written about many times before in [...]
The Watcher Emeritus on Feb 10 2010 | Filed under: Nominations
Another Wednesday, another contest!! If you, like me are stuck in the aftermath of a pounding snowstorm and bitter cold then I have a prescription for you. Grab a hot tea, coffee or even something mind altering like hot buttered rum or perhaps a steeping hot lemonade with a touch of vodka to sooth the [...]
The Watcher Emeritus on Feb 05 2010 | Filed under: Nominations, The Council Has Spoken!
The answer is easy. Apparently both have allied themselves with Palestinians that view Jews as the common enemy as exemplified by the two winning entries in this week’s Watcher of Weasels contest.
Winning council member Mere Rhetoric takes on Yahoo by noting that someone at Yahoo went to the extraordinary measure of removing the Israeli town [...]
The Watcher Emeritus on Feb 03 2010 | Filed under: Nominations
Illinois proved last night that moronic notions and lazy attitudes prevail. Anemic turnout for the Illinois primaries prove that the state of Barack Obama and Oprah is quite possibly one of the biggest voids of intellectually motivated people in the nation.
Worse, Illinoisans on the Republican side put Mark Kirk on the top of the ticket [...]
