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In a freak miscarriage of justice, Denmark\u2019s recent travails\u2026err, I mean\u2026Akram\u2019s Razor has won a Brass Crescent Award <\/a>for the category of the blog \"Most Deserving of Wider Recognition\".\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Hey, I\u2019m as surprised as you are.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n

And, at the risk of being a ingrate, I\u2019m a little ambivalent, as it makes me feel obligated to keep spewing propaganda and self-indulgent musings during the day rather than earning an honest living.\u00a0 My first thought was quite honestly, \"Oh no, now people are going to come to my blog expectating wit, insight, erudition, and\/or good writing.\u00a0 The first three are in terribly short supply, and I don\u2019t have the energy for the last quality.\u00a0 \u00a0And now I\u2019m going to have start spellchecking and proofreading the dang thing.\"<\/p>\n

Seriously, though, thanks to everybody who voted for me.\u00a0 I\u2019m very flattered by this quite undeserved honor.<\/p>\n

Congrats to the other winners, especially my better half<\/a>!\u00a0 <\/p>\n

There were so many great blogs to choose from, though.\u00a0 It\u2019s a veritable embarassment of riches.

P.S. I still haven\u2019t replaced Mjolnir (my dearly departed laptop) yet, so I\u2019m quasi-incommunicado outside work hours these days.\u00a0 Am reduced to emailing and blogging when Shabana steps out of the room.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Perhaps this is a sign of my being truly maladjusted, but I\u2019m finding being without a PC at home a torment worthy of Dante at his cruellest.\u00a0 Give me a pit of boiling tar surrounded by pitchfork-wielding imps over this existence anytime.\u00a0 \u00a0Shoot, you can put me in Geryon\u2019s mouth,\u00a0 but give me back my Internet access.
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And being reduced to writing things by hand\u2013I\u2019m finalizing some long overdue articles for a book project <\/a>that I somehow talked my way into\u2013is agonizing.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 (My topics: Jihad, Democracy, Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and the Salafiyya Movement.\u00a0 Nice easy topics, right?)\u00a0 \u00a0 When I finish them I\u2019ll probably riff a bit on the findings.
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Aargh,\u00a0 she\u2019s coming back to the living room and I haven\u2019t even checked Slashdot yet.\u00a0 Curses!
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