- Best most manly man of ’08: The worker at a concrete factory in Manor, Texas, who cut off his own arm to save himself.
- Best FrontBurner post of ’08: Wick’s post on Mike Huckabee. (Flip flopper.)
- Best FrontBurner comment of ’08: Jack Jett’s naming of FrontBurner as “Blogsite of the Year!” We’re so embarrassed! And thankful! And deserving!
- Best political story of ’08: Jim Bowles announcing he will seek the sheriff’s office again, as he’s grown bored with not running a broken jail system.
- Best Unfair Park posting not by Robert Wilonsky in ’08: [no winner, as there were no entries at announcement time]
- Best place Tim went for a long lunch with his son in ’08: Here.
- Best Wednesday’s Child on Channel 8 in ’08: Robert.
- Best scoop in ’08: SMU’s Daily Campus reporting that June Jones has 72 hours to accept or decline its offer to be head football coach.
- Best attractive TV news person I’ve never heard of until ’08: CBS 11’s Nerissa Knight.
- Best NSFW link of Elisha Cuthbert sent to me by Stacey Yervasi in ’08: That would be this one.
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