CONTEST WINNERS!!!: So you all rock. The fake blogs were fantastic. I can only hope that the next contest (which is really weird) will fire you up half as much. Creators’ names/blogs are in parentheses. I should note, too, that I was surprised that pretty much everyone actually set up new blogs on Blogspot–I only got two submissions (see below) in email form.

Now the winners. THIRD PLACE: William Hague. (Peter Briffa)

SECOND PLACE: P. Parker. (Jim Treacher)

GRAND PRIZE WINNER: PoohPundit. (A. Beam) I’m sorry, this was the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

HON. MENTIONS (in more-or-less alphabetical order–“less” because it made copying and pasting easier…):

Yasser Arafat. (Michael Levy)

William F. Buckley, Jr. (D. Connaughton, one of only two contestants not to set up a Blogspot site!): From William F. Buckley’s blog:

Professor Galbraith upbraided me yesterday for my suggestion that our sojourns to Geneva be shortened to six weeks. He chided thusly: ‘Oh it’s to be Denmark on Tuesday, Belgium on Wednesday, eh?'”

Posted by WFB 2:35pm May 6, 2002

Survived ‘Frontier House’ on PBS, the premise of which was to see how three modern families might fare in the Montana wilds, circa 1880. A thought: Mrs. Glenn could travel the summer Shakespeare circuit as the Bard’s ‘Katherina’ and be eminently believeable…

Posted by WFB 10:48pm May 5, 2002

Rich and the kids seem to be doing well at NRO. Rich informs me that he Mr. Dreher have to shave now and no longer get carded regularly when purchasing alcohol. Jonah, like the Beatles, appears to be in his ‘dark phase’, probably due to his recent marriage to Yoko. I’ve been told that even ‘serious’ adults are compulsively reading ‘The Corner’. Would it be uncharitable to suggest that they could find a better use for their time?

Posted by WFB 6:28pm May 5, 2002

Many of the weblogs that have come to my attention display a disdain for civil discourse and, to the extent they say anything at all, say it rather coarsely. This ensilage of words in great quantities suggests a ‘quantity over quality’ milieu which lends itself to imprecisions such as the use of the word ‘blue’ when ‘cerulean’ is obviously meant. I intend to ensile my thoughts here as the spirit moves…

Posted by WFB 10:32am May 4, 2002

John Kerry. (A friend who wishes to remain anonymous)

Margaret Thatcher. (Emily Jones)

Bill O’Reilly:

Oh, wait, his whole TV show is a blog. Nevermind.

Sandra Day O’Connor:

To retire or not to retire, that is the question. Being the swing vote on the Court is not all it’s cracked up to be. I could be riding horses and playing golf and shopping in Scottsdale. But there is that power thing. Anyone who thinks Karen Hughes was the most powerful woman in America needs to have their blog examined. Or Condi Rice for that matter. I determine what is lawful or not, and a girl can change her mind. It’s a woman’s prerogative.

(Both from Ralph Johnson.)