Pharyngula is a finalist in the Readers' Choice Awards – Favorite Agnostic / Atheist Blog of 2011, which I won last year. I’m in fabulous company here, with a fine selection of excellent atheist blogs, all of which I must crush in my iron fist of virulent militant godless fanaticism. Sorry, people.
Wait…Greta Christina, my fierce sister-in-arms at FtB? Those bastards! They have pitted family against each other for their sick entertainment! You know what this means. Vote harder. Vote every day. I must conquer.
Unless I can cunningly maneuver her into some peculiar forfeit if she wins, in which case I’ll cheerfully throw the race. Atheist, you know.
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eric
22 February 2012 at 9:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thunderdome!
Two bloggers enter, one blogger leaves!
Dhorvath, OM
22 February 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I am not falling into your trap. The only way to win is not to play.
jesuslovesbags
22 February 2012 at 9:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I lost the game
jamessweet
22 February 2012 at 10:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Whom shall you crush like a bug, isn’t it? :p
jamessweet
22 February 2012 at 10:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m joking, by the way; although I occasionally use “whom”, I am sympathetic to the argument that that anachronism should just go away, and I think “who” is always acceptable (whereas using “whom” inappropriately makes one look like a pretentious douche)
Reginald Selkirk
22 February 2012 at 10:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Atheism: Proving the Negative has some quality material, but has not been all that active lately.
AJS
22 February 2012 at 10:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s really not difficult to know whether to use “who” or “whom”. If the answer could be “they”, use “who”. If the answer could be “them”, use “whom”.
There is really nothing anachronistic about nominative vs. accusative cases, unless you think that doing things properly is old-fashioned.
Brownian
22 February 2012 at 10:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“‘…and all the Whoms down in Whomville’—”
“See Daddy: this is why Mommy left.”
davem
22 February 2012 at 10:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Whom as the accusative is as dead as the Dodo. I always use it as a dative (by, with, from, to whom etc), but I can’t say I’ve heard it used as an accusative since, for ever.
otranreg
22 February 2012 at 10:58 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Having played Crusader Kings 2, where you plot against your family left and right, and backstab or be backstabbed, for a week now, I am not it the least shoked by this. :)
sc_c408e3b818e5fbf342058a2552e37187
22 February 2012 at 12:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Are there awards for other kinds of blogs? I’m just curious since I have my stem cell blog at http://www.ipscell.com and wouldn’t mind getting an award some day.
Paul
coraxyn
22 February 2012 at 2:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
DO NOT CRUSH BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grrrr….. http://fieldmacro.wordpress.com/
martypribble
22 February 2012 at 3:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
CRUSH ME LIKE A BUG! oh wait… NO DON’T! VOTE FOR ME LIKE A BUG!
Alethea H. Claw
22 February 2012 at 3:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Vote for Greta!!!
psanity
22 February 2012 at 9:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well, I voted for Greta. Pharyngula can win any old time, and I’d love to see Greta get more attention. Especially, dare I say, after the year we’ve had.
John Morales
22 February 2012 at 9:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
psanity, alas, I am very literal.
I voted for my favourite blog, not for the blog I thought merited most attention.
Aquaria
23 February 2012 at 6:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
DO NOT CRUSH BUGS!
Some bugs don’t bother me. The ones I hate? Crushed. I hate the disease-carrying ones (flies, cockroaches) and those evil allergic reaction-inducing ones (wasps). Nasty, vile creatures.
If they don’t want to die, then they can stay out of my vicinity.
Sili
23 February 2012 at 10:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
But then how am I supposed to make my carmine?
Nemo
23 February 2012 at 11:56 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Greta is a worthy opponent. I wasn’t really familiar with the others, so I checked them out briefly. Herewith, my dismissive summaries:
Unequally Yoked — The blogger claims to be a liberal atheist, but supports covenant marriage, and is observing Lent. Ugh.
Proving the Negative — He kinda lost me at “doxastic”. Also, he posted nothing between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day.
Martin S Pribble — This site doesn’t even look like a blog.