Reason Nominated for 12 Maggie Awards!
I'm happy to announce that Reason scooped up a record-setting 12 nominations for Maggie awards from the Western Publishing Association this year. Which is pretty neat. You can see the full list here.
In addition to being nominated for the best in our print category, Politics & Social Issues (where we are up against Mother Jones, Pacific Standard, and Sierra), we also grabbed finalist slots for Best Web Publication, Best Blog, and Best Use of Social Media.
We picked up specific nominations for:
Not one, but two of Matt Welch's editor's notes for Best Signed Editorial:
"America's Free Speech Retreat"
Best Feature Article:
Katherine Mangu-Ward's "Your Vote Doesn't Count"
Best Interview or Profile:
Nick Gillespie's interview with David Simon "The World Is More Complicated."
Best Single Editorial Illustration:
Terry Colon's "The Recovery That Wasn't"
We had two finalists for Best Regularly Featured Web Column:
Nick Gillespie's 3 Reasons video series:
"3 Reasons U.S. Drone Policy Is Really Freakin' Scary"
"3 Reasons Mitt Romney and Republicans Lost Big in Election 2012"
Plus Ron Bailey's weekly column:
"Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong"
"Are Atheists Worse Than Rapists?"
And Mike RIggs grabbed the Best Web Article nod for "How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life."
Winners will be announced on April 26.
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Reason is OK. But for real journolism, you have to give it to Salon.
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/1.....rand_paul/
Bro-gressives’ love affair with Rand Paul
The hero-worship of the racist, misogynist Kentucky senator brings out the worst in certain progressive dudes
I couldn't finish it.
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A liberal accusing others of straw man and lying by omission. That's just precious.
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Loving Obama on the other hand...
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You know who else unconditionally loved their leader...
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Ants?
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Smurfs?
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In fairness, Papa Smurf was a benevolent dear leader.
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"Papa Joe" Smurf, then
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Hey, he let Grandpa Smurf live after asserting control of the village. He is a giving smurf.
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Christians?
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Norks? (or else)
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From the article:
"To Sirota, these are issues “unrelated” to the administration’s drone policy, which is after all, about the civil liberties of all American citizens, especially white survivalist guys (but apparently not so much, in Rand Paul’s reading, those of non-citizens). The civil rights of women, black people and the disabled? Well, by Sirota’s lights, they’re “totally unrelated” to civil liberties overall."
So according to the author, forcing businesses to erect wheelchair ramps trumps prohibiting the federal government to assassinate a wheelchair-bound U.S. Citizen without a trial.
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Obama would only kill the right people in this guy's estimation. So it is not a civil rights issue. Notice, because could only possibly effect a bunch of icky white guys, their use will never be a civil rights issue.
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procedures were followed. they worked according to their training. therefore, good drone kill. hth
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Adele is not a guy, although she is a tough looking gal.
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Guy girl, the proglodytes are always a bit gender confused. Hard to tell sometimes.
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I read the first parapgraph and then went to Google search. I assumed this had to be some butt-hurt feminist.
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The mask just keeps slipping more and more.
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The immediate leap from abortion opponent to misogynist is a dead giveaway. I'm all for legal abortion, but I can at least grasp the concept that people might oppose it for reasons besides hating women.
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If Rand was to run in '16 or '20, is he ever going to be able to explain his positions on the CRA and ADA, without having 1000s of media people standing up and screaming RACIST!
Realistically, this seems like a huge hurdle for him in the modern political arena
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Is journolism to journalism as pogrom is to program?
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Yes, and your SAT score just went up 5 points.
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"I couldn't finish it."
Nor could I. Where the fuck do people get this shit?
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I did. Hilarious! I keep picturing "Bro-gressives" as the two guys at the gym spotting each other on 25 lb dumbell curls. Maybe the progs are finally turning on each other. Well done, RP!
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the two guys at the gym spotting each other on 25 lb dumbell curlsclearly dunphy wannabes. but they don't have the body mass of a prolympic lifter so not surprising. gotta run. my supermodel secretary just walked in. hth
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Who is Maggie and why is she giving out awards?
Also, reason.com is up for a best blog award?
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No, no - it's so much worse. They're giving away girls named Maggie as awards!
ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS IS NAMED MAGGIE! YOU FUCKERS BETTER STAY AWAY!! IF YOU ATTACK WE'LL POINT OUR FINGERS AT YOU AND GO "PEWPEW"!11!
Just go after the orphans like you always do and we'll all be OK.
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The winner gets a night with Maggie Gyllenhall. The loser, a night with Maggie Smith.
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Any way to drop out of that contest?
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Gyllenhall is cute. She has a great body.
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Uh huh.
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I am sure you kick better looking women than this out of bed all of the time
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I don't have a rotation of women that I cycle through, I'm a faithfully married man. That being said, if I were able to choose who did get to be in bed with me, Maggie G wouldn't even be on the list. She can take her puffy face over to your house and dance around with Julia Stiles.
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So you wouldn't sleep with her. Not have others you would like better all things being equal. You wouldn't touch her. She is just ugly.
Whatever. Did sarcasmic hijack your account today?
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Do you really have to get so butthurt every time someone disagrees with your taste in women? Not tonight, I have a headache.
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Once again, you think Gyllenhall is ugly and would never sleep with her?
Sure you do.
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I wouldn't want to sleep with that fat-faced woman, correct. Do. not. want. I don't think she's hideously deformed (except for the fat face), I just don't find her that attractive.
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Uh huh. I am sure you would kick her right out of bed there Sparky.
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I wouldn't have to kick her out of bed because I wouldn't let her in it to begin with.
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I know you wouldn't sparky. Your standards are just so impeccable. You tell us all about it.
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Also, if you think she's so hot how come you can't spell her name right?
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John + word longer than four letters = typo.
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You stare into a mirror and say, "Maggie Thatcher" three times...she comes and sends you to the Falkland Islands.
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I hear they're lovely this time of year.
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The good news is, Maggie Grace is there waiting for you!
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I'll be in
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Maggie Grace is like 1000% hotter than that Gyllewhatever chick.
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Grace is hot. But Gylennhall is cute has a nice body.
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Jake Gyllenhall?
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If you are on that team, probably so.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....ldren.html
Olivia Wilde is 1000% hotter than either of the Maggies.
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Methinks their relationship will quickly get more stale than a recurring SNL sketch.
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That is the problem all really freakishly beautiful women have. Who could honestly say they married Wilde for anything but her looks? Even if you loved her personality, her looks are so overwhelming that it wouldn't matter. And secretly they all know this and it causes them to choose lousy husbands and have horrible luck at marriage.
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John, based on all of your projection, all I can say is that I feel sorry for your wife.
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Sparky, I am sure she is really touched by that. Is there anything else you would like to be butt hurt about today? Go ahead and let it out. You will feel better. I am sure you can manage to say something else appallingly stupid and offensive if you just put your mind to it.
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*considers editing some "yo mamma's so fat" jokes to "John's wife's so fat" then reconsiders*
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I am sure you can manage to say something else appallingly stupid and offensive if you just put your mind to it.
And I'm the butthurt one.
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Only two references to Aqua Buddha?
(After all, Paul once proved his ecumenism during a college prank, when he kidnapped a woman, tied her up and demanded that she worship an idol he called “Aqua Buddha.” But I digress.)
the hero-worship of a guy who once kidnapped a woman as a prank
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we also grabbed finalist slots for Best Web Publication, Best Blog
*looks around at bigorati*
YOU'RE WELCOME, REASON
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ERMAGERD, AWERDZ!
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ERMAGERD, LERT'S SERLEBRAYRT!
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WITH COCKTAILZ!
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CERKTERLZ!
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So, where's the nomination for snarkiest comments?
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Is that a nomination in your pocket or are you just happy to see The Jacket?
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The golden age of Reason snark died with the meme about a certain fornicator of woolly bovine.
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I think you mean "ovine". Bovine=cattle, ovine=sheep.
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I actually meant to say bovid.
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Warty?
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Best Blog Commenter
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It's all thanks to Tony keeping the place classy.
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You're thinking of the Maggot awards.
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I heard Salon has been winning the Raggie Award for the past 5 years now.
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Beat Slate again, did they?
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Quantity AND Quality!
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm.....-brat-pack
You may win some awards, but Ann Marie Cox is really butt hurt about all you big meanies in the Right Wing media.
And on a side note, wow has she aged poorly. She looks like she is 60 in that picture. She is in her early 40s. Talk about rode hard and put up wet.
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A Portrait in Dorian Bile.
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The point of the article seems to be that other journalists get read and occasionally have an affect on the world, unlike Cox. What has Cox ever done but blog about a Capitol Hill hooker? Who I still wouldn't be surprised was actually her.
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And she is divorced now. I wonder if she fucked around on him or he fucked around on her
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She just needs to go and write about anal sex again. That'll perk her career right back up.
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Jesus Christ. Apparently her whole vajayjay is full of sand. Too bad so sad :(
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Not one, but two of Matt Welch's editor's notes for Best Signed Edtorial:
Classic reason.
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"Edtorial"
Maybe they just left it as an Easter Egg for us?
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I think it was a coded shout out to the great Lucy Steigerwald.
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Best Signed Edtorial
WTF? Everybody knows the best editorials are unsigned.
That way, it's like God wrote them.
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Or the Obama White House, which the same thing.