Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The words do not have to be perfect.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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  12. 12.

    BGinCHI

    I think Styx said it best:

    Lady when you’re with me I’m smiling.
    Give me all your love;
    Your hands build me up when I’m sinking;
    Touch me and my troubles all fade.

  13. 13.

    different-church-lady

    But… but… how is that possible when so many people here have told us so relentlessly that she’s the worst blogger in the world™?

  14. 14.

    Warren Terra

    I’m a big fan of ABL. I was delighted to donate to your joint Fear And Loathing roadtrip to the DNC.

    That said, I just visited her site for the first time in a few weeks, and I’m hating the radical redesign.

  17. 17.

    Publius39

    Congratulations. Cranky White Guy/Angry Black Lady 2016!!!

    *And yes, you can flip it if you are so offended.

  19. 19.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @different-church-lady:

    But… but… how is that possible when so many people here have told us so relentlessly that she’s the worst blogger in the world™?

    To be fair, there are 38 black weblog awards she didn’t win – including Best Automotive or Car Blog.

  22. 22.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    Hearty congratulations to Imani. And to JC for introducing her to us here.

    Cory, too, will look back and say, “I knew her when…” :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  23. 23.

    Fuck ALL the chickens! (né Studly Pantload, t.e.u.u.)

    But – but – her blog posts are all a repetitive formula based on bold lettering!

    Naw, we love ABL here at the ALL The Chickens household. A most righteous when for her, indeed.

  27. 27.

    EnfantTerrible

    You always bring your A-game, ABL. The award is well-deserved, and the hardware will look *great* on your mantle.

  30. 30.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Great news – congrats ABL. So sorry about the miss for Best Automotive or Car Blog. I was pulling for ya for that one as well.

  36. 36.

    General Stuck

    A Democratic operative sent the Tampa Bay Times some data on the early vote in Florida so far “to make the point that President Obama is crushing Mitt Romney when it comes to banking the votes of sporadic and infrequent voters before election day.”

    “So far more than 3 million Floridians have cast a ballot by absentee, mail-in ballot or in-person early vote ballot. Democrats lead by more than 60,000 votes, but it’s the unlikely voter numbers that jump out: Of the nearly 414,000 Floridians who did not vote in the last three general elections, Democrats have an advantage of more than 53,000 votes. Of the more than 482,000 Floridians who have only voted in one of the last three general elections, Democrats lead by more than 77,000 — a total of more than 132,000.”

    Me and thousands been saying for a while that O has the ground troops to shame Romney. The one group nation wide that could have competed with OFA on GOTV would be the evangelicals. And I have not heard one peep from them or anyone else they are mustering like they did for Bush in 2004.

    Go Florida!!

  39. 39.

    TexasMango

    @General Stuck: How dare all of those unlikely voters actually be voting?!?1!?

    Also too, I wonder if CU has hurt the evangelical groups. I wonder if money that used to go to them to GOTV is now going to these SuperPACs for TV ads.

    Oh and congrats, ABL!

  41. 41.

    Redshift

    @TexasMango:

    Also too, I wonder if CU has hurt the evangelical groups. I wonder if money that used to go to them to GOTV is now going to these SuperPACs for TV ads.

    TV ads and lots of grift, don’t forget!

  44. 44.

    different-church-lady

    @General Stuck: Well, now that might explain the discrepancy between the state and the national polls. People have been looking at the LV and RV models, but nobody’s been paying any attention to the UVs.

  48. 48.

    Jewish Steel

    As a long-time ABL yeasayer, I feel like I own a piece of this award. And so I will be updating my resume to reflect that.

    “It says here Mr. Painfully White Steel that you have won the 2012 Black Weblog Award.”

    That is correct.

    “I see…”

  54. 54.

    scav

    Rather surpised no one has complained about all the award not being posted here in its entirity, I mean, there’s a link in that post …

    congrats and long may she wield the dreaded <a> a tag!

  57. 57.

    Dee Loralei

    Woohoo! Imani! Congrats! I do belive Mina has some penis cupcakes for your celebration! Pro tip: Don’t go for the uncut one. LOL. I think a bunch of us had nightmares about that last night!

  61. 61.

    1badbaba3

    Somehow, I do not think that John Sununu(?) would be impressed.

    Oh well, he can eat a can of you know whats with a rusty pitchfork and DIAF.

    Well done and more please.

  62. 62.

    trollhattan

    Excellent!
    /Monte Burns voice.
    Comgrats, I remember when you were just a young, fresh angry thing.

  69. 69.

    kerFuFFler

    Well done, Imani!!! I hope there is a good cash prize—–you’ve earned it. Just keep it comin’.

  73. 73.

    max

    Someone I voted for won! Yay! Start of the trend for the month, I think.

    max
    [‘May Our Lady of the Pissed-Off Blackness spread her righteous anger to the unbelievers and the klanboys for decades to come, amen.’]

  82. 82.

    Matthew Reid Krell

    Has no one else noticed the oddness of a white man expressing paternal pride in an adult black woman? I mean, is that not an example of what TNC refers to when he talks about racism being baked into the cake?

    Would Cole be a “proud papa” if Tom Levenson won a blog award?

    ETA: Shit, I could be totally off base. But I was uncomfortable when JC said he felt like a “proud papa,” and I was made more uncomfortable when no one in the comments had noticed.

  83. 83.

    gwangung

    Has no one else noticed the oddness of a white man expressing paternal pride in an adult black woman?

    You mean like Branch Rickey over Jackie Robinson?

    Generally, a mentor has pride in a mentee. And it’s very rare in the business world for a white male to take on a female (and a non-white female, at that, as a mentee).

    SO I guess that IS odd….

  84. 84.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Congratulations ABL, you’ve earned it!

    John, you have an award winning blog and an award winning blogger you brought in here.

    Of course you get to be a proud pappy, you have good reason to be. :)

  88. 88.

    Debbie(Aussie)

    Sorry to be so late, but please let me add my congrats as we’ll. When things turn bad down here reproductively and wimmins speaking I may need your help. You write good ;). Deb

  90. 90.

    low-tech cyclist

    Yay, Imani!

    And kudos to John Cole for having invited all these great people to share the front page of his blog. John’s got a lot of good stuff to say, but when you’ve got John and Imani and Tom and Kay and Dennis and Doug and Anne and the rest of the crew, you get one of the best blogs around.

  93. 93.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Matthew Reid Krell:

    But I was uncomfortable when JC said he felt like a “proud papa,” and I was made more uncomfortable when no one in the comments had noticed.

    Reverse racism, mang.

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