Catching Up

Yikes. Looks like I've fallen down on my duties in the Watchers Council. Those of you who think this blogging stuff is all strawberries and ice cream and ego-stroking, get that out of your heads. It's work!

Here, in order of finish, are some belated announcements of winners from two weeks in April:

April 7

In-Council:

• Immigration Protests By High School Students by Rhymes With Right
  
  
• Aztlan and al-Andalus: Return to a Mythical Golden Age by Gates of Vienna
  
  
• Dreams and Myths: Hollywood and 9/11 by Right Wing Nut House
  
  
• The Immigrant Song: the USA, Abortion and the Debate on Illegal Immigration by Joshuapundit
  
  
• Why Is This Man Still Talking? by The Sundries Shack
  
  
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished by Dr. Sanity.
  

Outside the Council, the top finishers for that week were:

• On the Return of History by American Digest
  
  
• Creating the Online Infidel Library by Wolfgang Bruno
  
  
• The Two Branches of Government by Big Lizards
  

For April 14, I don't know where my head was, but here are the top finishers:

In-Council:

• No Relation to Reality, Indeed by Dr. Sanity
  
  
• The Death of 1,000 Cuts by The Glittering Eye
  
  
• Can Religions Build Their Own Enclaves? by Gates of Vienna
  
  
• The Iranians Respond: "You're Bluffing…We Think" by Right Wing Nut House
  

Outside the Council, the top finishers for that week were:

• April 2006 Message from Dan by Dan Simmons, a wonderful piece of writing that also was noted here by my co-blogger
  
  
• Saddam Targeted American Assets For Terrorism: Case Closed (Bumped) by Captain's Quarters
  
  
• Self-hating Americans by Iberian Notes, which, as I recall, was my nomination for that week.
  

Don't let my negligence deter you from checking out these fine pieces.