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Here at Top Comments we strive to recognize and promote the talent of this community by highlighting outstanding comments found throughout the day by the diarist, and through nominations at made at TopComments at gmail dot com by your fellow Kossacks.
These nominations are subjective, and certainly not complete (as no one can read the complete site on a daily basis!). But we hope they will serve to shine a light where deserved, and to give the reader a good starting point in finding conversation on the site.
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You can tell things are desperate in the diary-writing department when less than half an hour remains before publication time, and the first word isn't typed for the essay. It actually happens more often than I care to admit; life has a way of intervening—the unexpected phone call, the distraction of getting caught up in a comment string while mining, the panicked email from someone who needs a reply Right Now (and really does)—and suddenly it's ketchup catch up time.
So where does tonight's title come from? From the fact that this is one of eleven double-barreled dates this year involving the year: the ten tens. (We also have a triple-barreled date coming up in seven months, but that's an awfully long time from now.) Today is the third: 3/10/10 (or, if you're in a country that puts day first, 10/3/10).
I should probably note that yes, every year there are twelve double days (except when one of them turns triple): 1/1, 2/2, and so on up through December 12. Those happen every year. It's in the first twelve years of a new century that you get the chance to experience the doubling with years involved. Enjoy it while you can; after this year, there are only two more to go before its over for our lifetimes.
I was going to add a "seven years ago today in Daily Kos" feature, but March 10, 2003 was a fairly uninteresting day (despite being a double-three), with the U.S.-proposed U.N. resolution on Iraq going nowhere, and an early cattle call on the 2004 Democratic presidential primary.
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No doubles in today's submissions; but I've matched the three nominated comments from the Top Comments gmail box today with three of my own, so I guess that's a doubling of a different sort. We always greatly appreciate all those people who take the time to send along their favorites in advance of the 9:30pm Eastern Time deadline. The address of our mailbox for top comments submissions remains:
TopComments AT gmail DOT com
(change " AT " to "@" and " DOT " to ".")
Anyone can send great comments to our address. Be sure to include the direct link to a comment—the URL—which is available from that comment's date/time; we need that to find your choice. Please always include your Daily Kos user name in the body of your message, so we can credit you properly. I say again: both link and username are important; someone today forgot both. If you send a writeup with the link, we are able to include that, too, though we reserve the right to edit if necessary; should you only provide the link, then you have to take whatever writeup we create...and we can be excessively extremely creative. Today, I saved my creativity for my own selections.
From Julie Gulden:
Insightful comment by Blogvirgin in my If Obama were Republican... diary.
From Femlaw:
From zonk, the best one-line description I've seen yet of Nancy Pelosi's leadership skills.
From JanF:
Meta-Bozo day, explained by Plato and DBunn in Wednesday's Morning Feature diary.
From sardonyx (your weary Wednesday diarist):
High Impact Diaries by the indefatigable jotter was very busy today, and amidst the chaos, jnhobbs relates how, as a wee tad, he caught a glimpse behind the curtain at the Bozo the Clown Show that scarred him for life left an enduring memory. Perhaps this might explain why he's auctioning himself off for the Netroots Nation auction, currently ongoing?
Mother Mags notices something about the thought processes (such as they are) of Chief Justice John Roberts.
In today's Criminal Injustice Kos diary, ebohlman reminds us that people need to exercise some simple critical thinking when dealing with statistics.
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Finally, we have today's top mojo using my revision of the cskendrick-devised mojo-to-Excel process.
First, Top Mojo excluding Cheers and Jeers, miscellaneous cute animals, search-identifiable tip jars, and first diary comments:
1) *hugs* by GlowNZ — 191
2) please, please, please be right on this. by Julie Gulden — 154
3) Greyson cuts to the chase by FishOutofWater — 151
4) Same here. Keith, I am by blue jersey mom — 137
5) Thank you for your work, Governor by Hedwig — 128
6) These OK college kids are heroes by jhutson — 93
7) I'll Be Right Over by Keith Olbermann — 93
8) quick note - no intention of doing a diary by teacherken — 85
9) They're waiting on CBO by itskevin — 84
10) Pelosi has been an excellent tactician by slippytoad — 77
11) bullshit. by GlowNZ — 73
12) The Plan by se portland — 71
13) I don't recall by slippytoad — 71
14) and yet the Bozos down here still love him... by Julie Gulden — 70
15) Thanks for letting us know of her passing. by Comanchegyrl — 70
16) h'rated by GlowNZ — 66
17) You Tell 'em, Keith by JekyllnHyde — 65
18) seriously I thought of you by rexymeteorite — 65
19) Banfield by Keith Olbermann — 64
20) That's because it's simple and solves the problem by Dallasdoc — 64
21) I can't imagine better news by high uintas — 63
22) Every night I hold my breath awaiting the intro by Eileen B — 62
23) And your dedication. by Relevant Rhino — 61
24) Thank you! Pelosi doesn't get near enough by Fiona West — 60
25) Granny D by Scarce — 58
26) I don't remember any n/t by itskevin — 57
27) Well Duh. As Hartmann Often Explains, by Gooserock — 57
28) Echoing blue jersey mom's thoughts. by earicicle — 56
29) Hope this racist MF'er gets nailed and jailed. by amk for obama — 56
30) How can we make this happen? by 8ackgr0und N015e — 56
Top Mojo with No Exclusions:
1) Tip Jar by Keith Olbermann — 734
2) Tip Jar by Gov Howard Dean MD — 530
3) Tip Jar by RenderQT — 511
4) Tip Jar by Ed Tracey — 370
5) Tip Jar by NBBooks — 326
6) Tip Jar by dvogel001 — 326
7) Tip Jar by teacherken — 325
8) Tip Jar by Femlaw — 292
9) Tip Jar by TomK1960 — 286
10) Tip Jar by Frederick Clarkson — 278
11) Tips for spreading the news... by angelajean — 244
12) And I still won't vote for him for President by Seneca Doane — 215
13) *hugs* by GlowNZ — 191
14) Tip Jar by blackwaterdog — 189
15) Aardvark Kibble by blue aardvark — 183
16) Tip Jar by slinkerwink — 179
17) Tip Jar by HamptonRoadsProgressive — 160
18) please, please, please be right on this. by Julie Gulden — 154
19) Greyson cuts to the chase by FishOutofWater — 151
20) Same here. Keith, I am by blue jersey mom — 137
21) Thank you for your work, Governor by Hedwig — 128
22) so what do you say? by clammyc — 126
23) No tip or rec from me by Walt starr — 125
24) These OK college kids are heroes by jhutson — 93
25) I'll Be Right Over by Keith Olbermann — 93
26) quick note - no intention of doing a diary by teacherken — 85
27) They're waiting on CBO by itskevin — 84
28) Tip Jar by MicahT0078 — 82
29) Tips for Clean Urine and a Better America by xxdr zombiexx — 78
30) Pelosi has been an excellent tactician by slippytoad — 77
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