Of Bloggers and Men (Part I)

Dear Friends–

The beginning of the New Year seems to be the appropriate time for a look back at the web journals (vulgarly known as blogs) of the year of Our Lord 2006 and to arbitarily award the first, and possibly only, The Sectarian Strand’s Medals for Internet Excellence .

The medal for Best Traditional Conservative Journal (American) must go to Eunomia. Your Humble Scribe has already spoken about amazingly prolific Daniel Larison before so I will simply say that I have my doubts over whether he is entirely human – I have a vision of a disembodied Brain kept alive by Machine and able to search the internet and write at all hours of the day and night through sheer Mental Power.

The medal for Best Traditional Conservative Journal (Australian) goes to Mark Richardson’s Oz Conservative. No one does more than Mark Richardson to inform and encourage traditional conservatives in Australia both with his web journal and in his Conservative Central website. It is refreshing to encounter someone who doesn’t think that Conservatism means being a shill for the Liberal Party or for Big Business at the expense of the rest of Society.

The Best Traditional Conservative Journal (New Zealand) goes to Michael Courtman’s NZ Alternative Conservative. Like Mark Richardson, he too is interested in preserving the Permanent Things – those essentials of society that are being lost to the corrosive political attitudes of the New Elites.

The medal for The most Lamentable Loss to the Australian Blogosphere goes to The Currency Lad who’s indepth analysis is sorely missed after his site went mysteriously silent in August (although he is still commenting on a few other sites). Honourable mentions must also go the silent Professor Bunyip, and most recently to Rob F. who either today or yesterday decided that discretion is truly The Better Part of Valour and has deleted his journal altogether.

And so ends the first part of The Sectarian Strand’s Medals for Internet Excellence. Additional medals will be awarded as soon as my Muse stops behaving like an idle slattern.

Yours sincerely,
Mild Colonial Boy, Esq.