TagsTagsCourtesy of the inimitable Cox & Forkum, here’s the illustration for the winners of our Fiskie (for the world’s biggest idiot) and Fallaci (for the world’s most distinguished anti-idiot) Awards of 2007. The winner in the Fallaci category is the brilliant General David Petraeus, who achieved something many were beginning to ...
LGF, Awards, Blogosphere, Fiskie, Fallaci, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, 2007
There are only two hours left to vote for the Idiotarian (the Fiskie) and Anti-Idiotarian (the Fallaci) Awards for 2007, so here’s a fresh topic with the polls again... [Poll] [Poll]
LGF, Awards, Blogosphere, Fiskie, Fallaci, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, 2007
Your time to vote in the Fiskie/Fallaci Finals is drawing to a close. The leaders are pretty clear right now, but surges have been known to work before. Cast your vote before noon (Pacific) tomorrow, or forever hold your peace. Cox and Forkum will be coming out of retirement to do the ...
LGF, Awards, Blogosphere, Fiskie, Fallaci, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, 2007
Here are the final rounds of voting for the Fiskie and Fallaci Awards of 2007. These are the top five candidates in each category from our runoff round, and the voting will close on Wednesday, January 9, at noon Pacific time. [Poll] [Poll]
LGF, Awards, Blogosphere, Fiskie, Fallaci, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, 2007
Our first round of voting for the Idiotarian and Anti-Idiotarian Awards of 2007 ended yesterday. Keith Olbermann’s stellar idiocy put him way ahead of the pack for the Fiskie Award, followed by Ron Paul Supporters and Rosie O’Donnell. In the Fallaci Awards, we also have a runaway leader, General David Petraeus, followed ...
LGF, Awards, Blogosphere, Fiskie, Fallaci, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, 2007
There was a small bug in the Ajax polling code that prevented you from voting more than once in a poll. It’s now fixed, so I’m reposting the Fiskie and Fallaci runoff polls here. You now have five votes in each category, so if you voted only once before the ...
LGF, Awards, Blogosphere, Fiskie, Fallaci, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, 2007
Without further ado, here are the polls to vote for your candidates for the 2007 Fiskie (ooh, bad) and Fallaci (yeah! good!) Awards. [Polls moved to here.]
LGF, Awards, Blogosphere, Fiskie, Fallaci, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, 2007
I know I said we’d have the first round of Fiskie/Fallaci voting today, but real life got in the way and it will have to be tomorrow. The plan right now is to have a run-off round with the top 20 or so candidates from each category. The top five ...
LGF, Awards, Blogosphere, Fiskie, Fallaci, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, 2007
The nominations for the Idiotarian (Fiskie) and Anti-Idiotarian (Fallaci) Awards for 2007 are now open! Registered LGF lizards may use the form below to submit their nominations in the two categories. Remember, the Fiskie Award is for the most moonbattish, obtuse, deranged, or duplicitous person or group of the year. Past ...
LGF, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, Fiskie, Fallaci, Annual Awards
Lots of people have emailed asking when I’m going to open the nominations for the Fiskie and Fallaci Awards (for most idiotic and most courageous figure of the year, respectively). The plan is to open nominations December 26 through 28. To make things easier for all of us, this time ...
LGF, Idiotarian, Anti-Idiotarian, Fiskie, Fallaci, Annual Awards
I’m pleased as punch to announce the winners of the Idiotarian (the “Fiskie”) and Anti-Idiotarian (the “Fallaci”) Awards for 2006. In a rather felicitous juxtaposition, both of these proud recipients worked at the United Nations. Ladies, gentlemen, and lizards, I give you: John Bolton and Kofi Annan. (Thanks to Cox & ...
LGF, Idiotarian Award, Fiskie, Fallaci, Anti-Idiotarian Award
This topic is for nominations for this year’s Anti-Idiotarian Award, to honor the person who best exemplified the constant uphill fight against moonbattitude. The overwhelming opinion of LGF readers is that we give this award the nickname, “The Fallaci.” And so it will be.
Borders isn’t the only bookseller to cave in to Islamist intimidation. Last month Cathy Seipp reported another preemptive surrender, motivated by leftist ideology, at one of the birthplaces of the free speech movement: The fascists of free speech. A FRIEND OF MINE took his young daughter to visit the famous City ...