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1. Diary of the Year
Heartless bastards by occams hatchet What Is It to Be a Citizen? by Dallasdoc I'm scared. And I'm really f@cking angry by Got a Grip STFU by Land of Enchantment Why isn't THIS memo front and center in the torture debate? by henry porter WAR - the American Way of Life by One Pissed Off Liberal This Is My Story by Pluto Whose Side Are You On? by Alan Grayson Disappearing Waters & Speed of Climate Change Creep by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse "...Why People Like to Stuff People Like You into Ovens" by Jeffrey Feldman So you wanna talk about Hitler... by citisven DK GreenRoots: "I would rather have a heart opened by wonder than one closed by belief"* by boatsie BREAKING: PG&E quits US Chamber over climate change by D R B The Face of Emmett Till by Big Tex The Obama Code by George Lakoff This Is Us by blueness I'm dying. by kwickkick
Heartless bastards by occams hatchet
What Is It to Be a Citizen? by Dallasdoc
I'm scared. And I'm really f@cking angry by Got a Grip
STFU by Land of Enchantment
Why isn't THIS memo front and center in the torture debate? by henry porter
WAR - the American Way of Life by One Pissed Off Liberal
This Is My Story by Pluto
Whose Side Are You On? by Alan Grayson
Disappearing Waters & Speed of Climate Change Creep by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
"...Why People Like to Stuff People Like You into Ovens" by Jeffrey Feldman
So you wanna talk about Hitler... by citisven
DK GreenRoots: "I would rather have a heart opened by wonder than one closed by belief"* by boatsie
BREAKING: PG&E quits US Chamber over climate change by D R B
The Face of Emmett Till by Big Tex
The Obama Code by George Lakoff
This Is Us by blueness
I'm dying. by kwickkick
2. Diarist of the Year
Turkana One Pissed Off Liberal KingOneEye TeacherKen rserven craigkg exmearden Muskegon Critic Magnifico TexDem Cassiodorus WineRev Winter Rabbit NCrissieB Patric Juillet Deoliver47 ASiegel thereisnospoon Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse FishOutofWater Jill Richardson The Cunctator TomP wmtriallawyer droogie6655321 Seneca Doane Unitary Moonbat
3. Front Pager of the Year
Meteor Blades mcjoan David Waldman / KagroX SusanG BarbinMD
4. Best Good Works diary NOTE: No Haiti earthquake diaries are eligible for 2009 awards
Community Quilt for Brubs by Sara R Community Quilt Update by Sara R Filling Empty Bowls: 36 Hours for Feeding America (I) by noweasels Pretty Bird Woman by betson08 WOW! Kossacks (everywhere): a Vet needs your help. by llbear If You Can, Please Do So NOW (w/ incredible UPDATE) by Crashing Vor
Community Quilt for Brubs by Sara R
Community Quilt Update by Sara R
Filling Empty Bowls: 36 Hours for Feeding America (I) by noweasels
Pretty Bird Woman by betson08
WOW! Kossacks (everywhere): a Vet needs your help. by llbear
If You Can, Please Do So NOW (w/ incredible UPDATE) by Crashing Vor
5. Snark Diary of the Year
Ways in Which John McCain is like Ted Kennedy by glower What if President Obama Posted a Nobel Diary by MeMeMeMeMe Sacked: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Rush Limbaugh by JekyllnHyde Please Stop Scapegoating the Rich by David Mizner The Falme Out: GBCW: I'm Back: All in one Diary by LaFeminista America Seeks Restraining Order Against GOP by bernardpliers I Remember When DKos Was GOOD! by JeffLieber I now fear I may have been born in Kenya. by JeffLieber
Ways in Which John McCain is like Ted Kennedy by glower
What if President Obama Posted a Nobel Diary by MeMeMeMeMe
Sacked: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Rush Limbaugh by JekyllnHyde
Please Stop Scapegoating the Rich by David Mizner
The Falme Out: GBCW: I'm Back: All in one Diary by LaFeminista
America Seeks Restraining Order Against GOP by bernardpliers
I Remember When DKos Was GOOD! by JeffLieber
I now fear I may have been born in Kenya. by JeffLieber
6. Best Action Diary
Congratulations Ilona and the VA: "Moving a Nation to Care" by jimstaro My doctor doesn't think I'm going to die today by Johnny Rook Glenn Beck's advertisers are backing away -- help us increase the pressure by ColorofChange Big favor - action diary - Raul Grijalva by teacherken Cookstoves Pay for Solar in Three Tanzanian Villages by gmoke How to Stop COngressional Town Hall Disruptions by ShadowSD
Congratulations Ilona and the VA: "Moving a Nation to Care" by jimstaro
My doctor doesn't think I'm going to die today by Johnny Rook
Glenn Beck's advertisers are backing away -- help us increase the pressure by ColorofChange
Big favor - action diary - Raul Grijalva by teacherken
Cookstoves Pay for Solar in Three Tanzanian Villages by gmoke
How to Stop COngressional Town Hall Disruptions by ShadowSD
7. Best Visual Diary - Photo or Video
My Graveside Encounter with President Obama by Al Rodgers Just a Walk in the Park, Van Cortlandt Park (a photo diary) by Eddie C Ornaments by rserven Okavango Delta Wildlife - A Photo Diary by Haole in Hawaii Midsummer Meadows by johnnygunn
My Graveside Encounter with President Obama by Al Rodgers
Just a Walk in the Park, Van Cortlandt Park (a photo diary) by Eddie C
Ornaments by rserven
Okavango Delta Wildlife - A Photo Diary by Haole in Hawaii
Midsummer Meadows by johnnygunn
8. Best Teaching Diary
Simple Credit Card Advice For Everyone, Yes YOU! by Lava20 History for Kossacks: Afghanistan & the Great Game by Unitary Moonbat Pique the Geek 20090802. The Things we Eat. High Fructose Corn Sweetener by Translator We Can't Fix Ya! by Robinswing Just $30 billion to put 4.5 million to work! by A Siegel Teaching about "race" in the US. Part 1. by Deoliver47 GreenRoots: How the universe began... by rb137 The History of The Horn of Africa: Part 1 Ethiopia by Black Kos How to Embed Comedy Central Videos in DKos Diaries by SuperBowlXX Photographs and Memories: Going Back to the 1964-65 World's Fair by Eddie C
Simple Credit Card Advice For Everyone, Yes YOU! by Lava20
History for Kossacks: Afghanistan & the Great Game by Unitary Moonbat
Pique the Geek 20090802. The Things we Eat. High Fructose Corn Sweetener by Translator
We Can't Fix Ya! by Robinswing
Just $30 billion to put 4.5 million to work! by A Siegel
Teaching about "race" in the US. Part 1. by Deoliver47
GreenRoots: How the universe began... by rb137
The History of The Horn of Africa: Part 1 Ethiopia by Black Kos
How to Embed Comedy Central Videos in DKos Diaries by SuperBowlXX
Photographs and Memories: Going Back to the 1964-65 World's Fair by Eddie C
9. Best Investigative Diary
NYT/WashPost: Torture in Obama's Bagram Prison by Valtin The CCC - FDR's Forest Army (DK GreenRoots) by Land of Enchantment Grover Norquist is our ally? Are you f@%&ing kidding me! by dengre The largest fraud in American history [Updated] by gjohnsit Media Gives a Pass To Palin's Strange New Global Christianity by Troutfishing EcoJustice: Kampala, Uganda. Case Study I by boatsie Judd Gregg & his Abramoff Problem by Dengre This Is Why We Need A Blogosphere by KingOneEye What We Know so Far: A Tourture Timeline by DanK is Back
NYT/WashPost: Torture in Obama's Bagram Prison by Valtin
The CCC - FDR's Forest Army (DK GreenRoots) by Land of Enchantment
Grover Norquist is our ally? Are you f@%&ing kidding me! by dengre
The largest fraud in American history [Updated] by gjohnsit
Media Gives a Pass To Palin's Strange New Global Christianity by Troutfishing
EcoJustice: Kampala, Uganda. Case Study I by boatsie
Judd Gregg & his Abramoff Problem by Dengre
This Is Why We Need A Blogosphere by KingOneEye
What We Know so Far: A Tourture Timeline by DanK is Back
10. Hunter Award for Rant of the Year
F--- You, Democrats by Angry Mouse The Left of the Left is Right! by buhdydharma What Kind of Apathy Does it Take to Let Asian Carp Invade the Great Lakes? by Muskegon Critic I'm Done Talking About Abortion by Angry Mouse Sorry Miz Jane Hamsher. No. by DeOliver47 To Hell With Your Greedy Selves by Oke
F--- You, Democrats by Angry Mouse
The Left of the Left is Right! by buhdydharma
What Kind of Apathy Does it Take to Let Asian Carp Invade the Great Lakes? by Muskegon Critic
I'm Done Talking About Abortion by Angry Mouse
Sorry Miz Jane Hamsher. No. by DeOliver47
To Hell With Your Greedy Selves by Oke
11. Best Non-political Diary
Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday ("restore science to its rightful place" edition) by Neon Vincent Breaking apart: Himalayan glaciers by LaughingPlanet The Painter, the Storm and the Memo by Crashing Vor The Grieving Room: the fringe of consciousness by exmearden How to get a job: what's missing from resumes I'm reviewing Update X2 by cityvitalsigns All Hail Atlantis by Blueness New Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery3c Energy of Li Ion by Fish Out of Water There Are No Whole Foods Stores by JohnnyGunn In Search Of... The Mysteries Of The Universe by Rimjob Jabba and me by exmearden Prisons and Seashells by Oke To Be Back On the High Line Again (a photo diary) by Eddie C
Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday ("restore science to its rightful place" edition) by Neon Vincent
Breaking apart: Himalayan glaciers by LaughingPlanet
The Painter, the Storm and the Memo by Crashing Vor
The Grieving Room: the fringe of consciousness by exmearden
How to get a job: what's missing from resumes I'm reviewing Update X2 by cityvitalsigns
All Hail Atlantis by Blueness
New Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery3c Energy of Li Ion by Fish Out of Water
There Are No Whole Foods Stores by JohnnyGunn
In Search Of... The Mysteries Of The Universe by Rimjob
Jabba and me by exmearden
Prisons and Seashells by Oke
To Be Back On the High Line Again (a photo diary) by Eddie C