So I said I'd do the top comments diary for today and almost immediately began panicking. Looking around an hour or two after Anonymous Army put up yesterday's list, the site suddenly seemed barren of the kind of wonderful comments that are usually everywhere you look.
But I settled down and soon started seeing great stuff all over the place. I tried to keep it from being dominated by comments from a single story or diary, but in one case it wasn't possible to keep it to one. And I had a good list, and plenty of time, when I went out for ice cream (which is another set of stories). And then I ended up on the phone with my best friend and came rushing in barely in time to get this out (which is the ACK! part of the deal). So this is not as polished as I'd have liked. And, as always, it's highly subjective.
My first choice violates the "comment" part of this project, since I'm explicitly pointing to a conversation.
This starts with Meteor Blades' comment and goes on to feature a several-comment exchange between him and mcjoan, with georgia10, Black Max, and others chiming in; the whole thing is a great display of the kind of debate I love to see.
Next, a diary? I think? but the site is running slow and I'm having trouble checking, and it doesn't seem to have been tagged with "Paul Krugman" (tsk tsk) on Krugman had several comments I just couldn't do without:
Mr. X had a biting view of class warfare in history.
Trillian on Democrats, wealth, and poverty.
And Elise sounds like an amazing teacher.
Moving on, Sunqueen212 was fabulous when it came to the lies of Instapundit.
Carnacki had a funny take on how to draw lessons from fiction into politics.
Boadicea was incisive and funny on Ava Lowery's CNN interview.
LithiumCola's response to Cooley's trouble understanding the appeal of World Cup soccer was brief but hilarious.
Melvin gave us insight into "Fake Food."
Carnacki nominated this by Booman responding to Hunter's characterization of Booman Tribune.
Someone else (not me, really!) nominated this by jsmdlawyer, from Booman's diary today.
ThatSinger had this to say about his wife's tinfoil hat. (Another Carnacki tip.)
Please link to your favorite comments below, and yell at me for whatever I was supposed to include here and forgot.