April 1, 2007
Thinking Bloggers Award
Well, hmmm… I haven’t been procrastinating, I promise, I’ve just had a ton of activity on my plate.
The other day, Always On Watch, a friend and one of my favorite co-bloggers, named me as one of her five picks in the Thinking Blogger Award. Given her intellectual pulchritude, so to speak, and the multitudes of great bloggers out there, I was greatly honored and not a little humbled at her considering yours truly for such a bestowment.
The entailment is that each blogger named post the names/handles/websites of five other bloggers whose product causes one to really think… There is no obligation here, while one is “tagged”, one can either participate or not.
This one has been tough for me, because I read a lot of blogs and I’d be infinitely better off if I could name twenty rather than five, but that particular luxury is not afforded here.
So…
After a considerable and time consuming period of narrowing down (I hate this, there really are so many more blogs I would like to name), here are my five picks for the Thinking Bloggers Award:
Old Soldier– here is a retired military man who posts from the perspective of one who has put his life on the line for our country and our freedom, and who posts from the perspective of one who is truly enraged by the fact that so many of those elected to govern America choose to take umbrage with its very existence. His blog is an excellent read.
Civil Truth, who has for some time been a great commenter here at Hard Astarboard, whose comments have both made me think and precipitated my doing some serious research just to keep up with him, and who has recently begun posting at Raven’s blog and thanks to whom I’ve learned a lot of things I didn’t know.
Back at you, Always On Watch! You rarely post anything that doesn’t require some serious thought!
In agreement with one of AOW’s own picks — credit, as they say, where credit is due, GM Roper– thank you, George, your posts never fail to make one sit back and give thought to the topics you discuss.
And…
Brendan, a blogger whose site is probably unknown to most of us in our segment of the Blogosphere yet is deserving of much more exposure – whenever I visit Space Tropic, I find myself enjoyably and/or thoughtfully immersed.
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April 1st, 2007 at 1:57 pm
[...] Thinking Blogger Award The first word in the award title should automatically disqualify me, but for some reason Seth has decided ‘Old Soldier’ should be tagged. Most assuredly Seth humbles this old soldier by bestowing the Thinking Blogger Award upon this simple blog. [...]
April 1st, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Seth, you humble me, Sir! I sincerely thank you for your kind sentiment.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Old Soldier –
Nothing to be humble about, you deserve a whole slew of awards.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Seth,
You so deserve this award!
I’ve never had a nicer compliment than your ascribing to me intellectual pulchritude.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:49 pm
AOW –
I thought it an accurate description.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:29 pm
[...] We interrupt our programming to announce that Seth over at Hard Astarboard has awarded me a Thinking Blogger Award. Thank you for the honor, Seth. [...]
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Thanks again, Seth. Too bad you split town before I could meet you in person.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:25 am
CT –
I like to believe thatnwe will meet one day soon, and dinner will be on me.
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Great choices Seth … I really gotta retire, or something, so I can get more time to get around and read a lot of these….
April 4th, 2007 at 12:38 am
AB –
I know the feeling well. My time is usually limited these days, so what I do is try to visit as many blogs as I can, different ones from my blogroll on different days, to keep up, and follow links to ones I haven’t been to yet as well. Whew!
The problem here was that I had a really tough time condensing to 5 when I truly could have named at least 20 or 30.
April 4th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Well Congrats Seth, you Deserve the Award
April 5th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Marie –
Thanks, I did feel honored, not least because of the nominator(trix?) involved.
June 9th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
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