This is my favorite and most accurate description of a member of the MSM:

Let's Be Honest: Maureen Dowd Is Less Relevant Than Adrian Zmed
But she is still busily pecking, pecking, pecking at her typewriter, like a chicken who's mistaken the letter "a" for a kernel of corn.

That one had me laughing for a week - it's funny because it's true!
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Thanks. That's one I'd forgotten about.

I'm sure you haven't forgotten the best election postmortem ever, but there it is.

I say repost all the Sullivan schtick. Every last post. Especially the ones that are gob-smackingly vile.

I do love it so.

Be sure to highlight the first post ever to include the cowbell .gif.

Even if the post wasn't especially noteworthy (I don't particularly recall), it nonetheless marked the beginning of a long string of wonderful, er, economic news blog posts.

Oh yeah, and the Wonkette stand-up routine's gotta go in there too. That was the best of your excellent week of Wonkette themed writing.

Best post ever? Easy, "The Ace of Spades HQ Sex Blog", Ace's crusade to upstage the Washingtonienne's.
I never laughed so hard in my entire life.

Congrats on reaching your first anniversary and your millionth visitor, both in the same month. I think Oliver Willis asking, "Where's my Filet-O-Fish?" belongs on your best-of list. Future generations will appreciate its historical significance.

If I might go off track for just a mo, I really think you ought to spend a few bucks of that crazy blog money getting Oliver a Christmas present. Let's face it, the site just wouldn't have been the same if he hadn't been hovering around, playing Don Knotts to your Andy Griffith. And, honestly, I suspect that OW's a perfectly decent guy to know, once you get past his idiotic, mean-spirited, counterfactual political views, that and the fact that he's basically a rentapundit for some James Bond supervillain. And let's be honest: he's not even all that fat. He's more what my mom would call "big-boned" (freakin' enormous bones, I grant you).

Problem is, I'm stymied when it comes to picking an appropriate gift. Maybe your faithful readers would have some suggestions.

utron:

Best gift? Tinfoil hat.

Pleeeeeeease don't encourage Ace to be civil to Oliver. You're going to spoil everything.

I like the idea of a gift for O-Dub, although not anything particularly civil. Maybe a "four more years" t-shirt and a Long John Silver's gift card?

I was partial to the XXXX Is On Frigging Fire top tens. The Gambino sandwich bit was great ("I'm a 747 filled with nothing but flying elbows and head butts etc.") but I imagine that it violates Best Of etiquette to have an author of one of the bits on the panel.

I liked your first year, but I really thought the site picked up at the end of the year with Hoke Malokey's weekend work.

But that's just me.

Paul Anka.

enough said.

(Though particularly the Entrace Exam)

Gotta include the "Generic Video Game Walkthrough" since I almost wet myself.

I have to agree..the Wasingtonienne spoof...which gave us the classic question "What Would Kevin Sapcey Do?"...is neck and neck with the "Paul Anka Weekend" and the debut of Johnny Coldcuts as the Best. Posts. Ever.

How can one pick? There's just too many.

It's about time that some liberal-leaning independent somewhere had the balls to acknowledge his own intellectual and moral superiority.

That one made me laugh so hard it hurt.

How historically significant was the Ann Coulter link to your Condi Top 10?

I second Alex's vote for Dole/Zell On Friggin Fire posts.

....and gotta throw in a vote for one of my personal favs: XM8 Assault Rifle ("Whatever the hell this is, I want one.")

The don't touch my hoagie post was great, far better than anything along the same lines from the Onion. Oh, and of course Paul Anka slices like a fucking hammer.

Anything you have ever typed about Maggie Cho could make a Best Of list.

Congrats on your first year Ace, you are a very unique and funny writer, the first blog I read every day. Don't ever let the lure of Big Blog money turn you into a douchebag, stay sharp.

definitely the Washingtonienne spoof. I am laughing just thinking about it.

The MoDo word-processor post. "Avenge me."

That was perfection.

Sex-for-money skankathon. Paul Anka on gay marriage. Johnny Coldcuts gets lucky with Susan Sarandon. And the one where it's all 'Liberals are happy to ride their hover-scooters but tell them they're powered by a human brain suspended in a perpetual state of agony and they get all squeamish.'

Thanks for the compliments and suggestions.

How historically significant was the Ann Coulter link to your Condi Top 10?

Well, for the history of this blog, it was very significant. The six big events in this blog were 1, deciding that I should get at least as much attention as Oliver Willis, 2, NRO linking the D&D piece, 3, Ann Coulter linking the Condi Top Ten for a month, 4, AllahPundit telling me to keep at it and providing me with an ad on his site, 5, Steven Den Beste linking me as a "rising star" on his brief blogroll, and 6, the Bill Burkett rathergate piece, which got linked by right-wing super-honey Laura Ingraham' site. Not a lot of hits from that, necessarily, but hell, it's Laura Ingraham.

I guess Election Night was also big-- biggest traffic ever, and without the need for an Instalink -- but then I suspect that everyone pretty much had huge traffic that day, so long as they were actually liveblogging.

What I'd like to see is every post that contains the line "Bob Dole's cock will cut your taxes." That still cracks me up every time I think about it (not that I think about Bob Dole's crank, mind you.)

I would say the finest moment was when ACE was one of the 1st to put out the suspect in the Rather forgeries was most likely Bill Burkett.

That was hard, cutting edge stuff.

Credit where credit is due, ACE.

But the Sex for Money Skankathon was pure genius....

That Washingtonienne thing should be on both the best- and worst-of lists.

I love this blog. That's just the fucking integrity kick I'm on.

You understand where I'm coming from with integrity?

Include some haikus.