Please Feed the Monkeys

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It's that time of year where we kindly solicit your vote to be recognized as one of Florida's best progressive bloggers.

Please vote Ranger Against War as the Best Writers in the Florida Democratic Party's Netroots Coalition Award. It takes but a moment:

You are required to vote for choices #1, 2, and 21 then you can skip down to question #10, the category in which RangerAgainstWar in nominated. [We can't help you in categories 1,2, and 21, but we can definitely campaign for #10. You know the drill: Definitely vote RAW on question 10, then scroll to the bottom and click "finished". Done.

Will work for votes. If we win, it'll light a fire under our patooties to keep up the good fight.

Ranger is a friendly but impassioned blog which solicits input from readers for direction and ideas. We are not dogmatic, and are always willing to learn. That is our ideology, our raison d'etre: We'll tell you what we know, you tell us what you know, and we can come to an accord.

If cultured civic debate is becoming a lost art, maybe we can resurrect it here. It's not all about ego, and it'd be very lonely if we were only voices in the wilderness.

Thanks in advance for your time and your readership.

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N.B.: As reader Publius points out, the survey will be invalid unless you tick off a choice for #1, 2 and 21, in addition to Ranger's category -- BEST WRITER -- question #10.

So you are only required to vote for #1, 2, 10 and 21. We want yer vote (no one else paid us to shill for them.) In this case, it IS all about us, ahem.

Mission Accomplished

Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me
--Thank You Very Much, Scrooge (1970)

How 'bout them transparent dangling carrots
How 'bout that ever elusive kudo
--Thank You, Alanis Morrisette

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks
--William Shakespeare
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We won, we won! You like us! Thank you one and all for voting Ranger, Best Progressive Florida National Blog from the Florida Democratic Party Netroots Coalition. Our shameless grandstanding hit the target, and you got out the vote. Thanks.

We now know what it's like to win a contest based on votes alone. One knows one was the most popular, but not necessarily the best. (Well, in this case, the best.) So with Obama and McCain who are also fighting a personality contest, as we have no Solomon to mediate such matters (or any matter, for that matter.)

We'll just have to hope for Surowiecki's wisdom of crowds to prevail. In that vein, if anyone knows what the logo represents, please tell us.

At first glance it is a stylized Pacman. On second, it appears to be a blue and orange billiard ball wearing a yellow hardhat. Why a billiard ball would need a hardhat escapes us. Blue and orange are the colors of the University of Florida football team, which we must oppose out of reflex, hailing from Tallahassee as we do.