Voting is Open!

I hadn’t realized it but voting opened today for the 2008 Weblog Awards, and you can vote for all of your favorite blogs here. (My li’l old category is here, if you’d like to vote for me!)

Who am I voting for? Well, I have my favorites, but so many of them are nominated, that I’ll be splitting many of my votes throughout the days (you can vote once per day in each category). Here are a few of my choices:

Best Blog: Hot Air, with my Blogfather, Ed Morrissey, is my go-to-several-times-a-day site. I can always count on Ed to give the story straight up, lucidly and fairly, and in our balkanized age, that’s a rare thing in blogging.

Best Individual Blog: I could lie and say I won’t vote for myself, but since I’m going to lose anyway, I figure why not throw a few votes my way as I scatter them throughout this list of interesting bloggers.

Best Humor Blog: Treacher. Anyone else surprised Iowahawk wasn’t on that list?

Best Comic: I admit, it’s the only one I read of the nominees, and I am also spoiled because Chris Muir once drew a flattering cartoon me, but Day by Day is the answer to Doonesbury, and deserves recognition.

Best Liberal Blog: Taylor Marsh.

Best Conservative Blog: I think I once came in second to Ace in this category before I got kicked out of the “pure conservative” club, which was okay with me, since I’m not much of a joiner. He’s currently in the lead and I expect it will come down to him, and Michelle Malkin, and that’s probably as it should be. But because I like so many, my votes will be scattered, with attention paid to Kate the Great and to Eject, Eject, Eject because I wish I could write like Bill Whittle.

Best Political Coverage: I frankly thought Ann Althouse had the best, and funnest, and most insightful coverage of the election and I wish there was a category for Best Live-Blogging With Outstanding Commentary from Readers, because although my commenters are great, and Ace’s are funny, I do believe Ann Althouse has the best comments threads to be found anywhere. But since she’s not in this category, I’m going with The Politico, mostly, with some votes scattered among other sites.

Best Military Blog: Michael Yon. His stuff is just astonishing.

Best Middle East or Africa Blog: Michael Totten

Best Law Blog: The Volokh Conspiracy. Law writing that even I can understand!

Best Business Blog: For the life of me I don’t know why Bizzyblog isn’t in here – that would have been my sole choice, but the nominees here are all good, and I’ll likely scatter my votes.

Best LGBT Blog: Gay Patriot and Tammy Bruce

Best Religion Blog: This is a category full of great, profound, instructive and moving blogs, but my vote will go solely to Happy Catholic, which is outstanding, everyday. Julie’s blog is classy, thoughtful, wise, faithful, humorous, sometimes searingly honest and she is the exceedingly modest and generous blogger who will continually link to all of the other religion blogs – whether Catholic, Evangelical, Lutheran, Jewish, Atheist or whatever – whenever she gleans something good for all of us, and she does it without ever asking links for her own efforts. I love Happy Catholic, and I bet most religion bloggers would agree that she is sorely under-recognized, even among those of us who appreciate her, because she is so busy pushing everyone else to the front of the stage. Happy Catholic is a hands-down great blog. Vote for Julie!

Best Food Blog: Cake Wrecks. So, it’s cakes. I like cakes.

Best Blog Design: Snapped Shot

Best Culture Blog: Dirty Harry’s Place

Best Aussie or Kiwi Blog: Tim Blair

Best Major Blog: Instapundit. Of course. Glenn Reynolds is the best gleaner of worthwhile reading I’ve ever seen.

Best Very Large Blog: Scattered among many great blogs.

Best Midsize Blog: Betsy’s Page. I love straightforward and challenging teacher that comes out in all her writing!

Best Up-and Coming Blog: Sundries Shack

And a hearty round of applause to Kevin Aylward, founder of Wizbang, and founder of these Awards, who every year puts this together – and it’s a lot of work – and gets few thank-yous from the rest of us who are too busy jumping up and down shouting “vote for me, Vote for ME!”

Ummm….yeah, vote for me! ;-)