BEGALA AWARD WINNER 2002 (Andrew Sullivan's Year-End Awards)

Andrew Sullivan.com ^ | 12-31-02 | Andrew Sullivan

[veronica]

FYI.

[veronica]

Bump.

[veronica]

Bump.

[Registered]

[Sparta]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/813574/posts

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[dighton]

No war, no air force cowards who bomb countries with AAA, without possibility of retaliation. -- Peter Kirstein, professor at Saint Xavier University.

Bonus award here, for most creative use of Anti-Aircraft Artillery.

[Howlin]

I can see why Moyers won, but isn't that a macro they've been using for years? Not very original, IMO.

[anniegetyourgun]

This collection of regurgitant stinks and is not very original, IMO.

[IncPen]

Ping

[Ditto]

We have been blessed to have such childish enemies.

[summer]

A very interesting read. Thanks for the ping, veronica.

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[Cinnamon Girl]

Good stuff. Entertainingly framed.

[veronica]

LOL.

[MadIvan]

"If there's anything that confounds the British more than American optimism, it's baseball, which brings together on one bright pastoral greensward those twin nineteenth-century American deliriums: industrialization and individualism.

Hmpf. I'm not confounded at all by baseball, I rather like it. I'm Chief Wahoo's biggest fan on my side of the pond.

Regards, Ivan

[Norman Arbuthnot]

TOP TEN WINNERS OF 2002:

1. Pat Tillman, for giving up a promising and lucrative NFL career in order to serve his country.

I'm pleasantly surprised that Sullivan selected Tillman as #1 in his Winners catagory.

He's a great choice.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[JohnnyZ]

DERBYSHIRE AWARD RUNNER-UP 2002: ". . . It counts as evidence that Pope John Paul II, who almost certainly is aware of the charges, has strongly, consistently, and publicly praised Fr. Maciel and the Legion. Much of what we know we take on trust. I trust these people." - Richard John Neuhaus, First Things, still trusting whatever the Catholic hierarchy says about its members.

Ah, right, instead of evaluating the facts of the case, we should condemn anyone even accused of sexual abuse as guilty guilty guilty and assume the Pope is a liar and a fraud. Brilliant.

[JohnnyZ]

8. Jennifer Lopez, for talent-free ubiquity.

JLo goes on the winner's list for two things: according to a coworker, she's made it okay to have a healthy-sized badonkadonk; and for falling in love with a Republican politician, thus serving as a role model for the Hispanic electorate.