After Salon’s Alex Pareene ran the board last month, the Judges strongly considered just dropping this category and pretending like it never existed. But after the Management reminded them they were being paid by the unit, they bravely forged ahead. With a twist.

This year’s competition is thus a team sport. Fox & Friends, featuring the Faux Ditz (Oxford!) and the Real Ditz (Doocy!) may telegraph every GOP talking point, but accomplishes its mission with a panache that must be the highlight of every Daily Show intern’s day. Facing them at center field is the Washington Post Editorial Page, your source for the best in Torture Apologists.

And the winner is…

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The Judges were confused by the existence of this new award category, and were sorely tempted to follow the sage advice of a Nominator who suggested that the award be bestowed upon Sport itself. But after scolding by the Management for not being team players, the sullen panelists decided to give it the old BCS try.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter‘s (Teleprompter: “Pause for audience giggles”) warning to gays not to gay it up in Qatar leads off our parade of Dick Moves. LeBron James‘s Dick Move took a full hour on ESPN to unfurl, followed by the endless punctuation of Nike commercials. The Vancouver Organizing Committee built a manifestly unsafe luge track, then pulled out a Dick Move when an athlete demonstrated the point. And Brett Favre all but defined Dick Move in 2010.

And the winner is…

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The Judges began their marathon pizza fest conclave with a quandary: While this category traditionally honors foreign assholes, an abrupt change in nomenclature seemed to invite stateside nominees. After much beer pong spirited debate over whether Jan Brewer merits inclusion here for her institutional racism and Death Panels, the Judges decided to maintain the integrity of the category and censure the Management for harshing their mellow so early in the process.

Punishment meted, the qualifying nominees were duly considered. Julian Assange managed to frighten the shit out of everyone in the American Overlordship, while pissing the shit out of everyone he came into contact with. Tony Hayward was the public face of the BP oil spill and pitiful victim of lost weekends. Kim Jong-il rattled his nukes, which helped revive DVD sales of Team America.

And the winner is…

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OMG, we’re so excited! James Franco has agreed to host our ceremony this year, and— what? They’ve sent only his hand? Jeez, this is gonna be awkward, especially since Thing’s lawyers are insisting on their contractual requirement that he be the Exclusive Hand during the presentation. Well, shit. Okay, look, put it on ice and send it back. Is Daniel Day-Lewis still available?

While our assistants are Googling the source of that last reference, welcome to The 2010 Stinque Awards for Achievement in Infamy, our third annual celebration of the best in bloggable beastliness. We’ll be here all day, presuming we don’t trigger a DDOS attack from petulant basement-dwellers.

First, against our better judgment, the Technical Awards for Nice People, a tradition we’ve allowed to flourish in a moment of weakness. Please, holster your tomatoes. Target practice doesn’t begin for another hour.

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Title: “40: A Doonesbury Retrospective”

Author: G.B. Trudeau

Rank: 67

Blurb: “This monolithic overview of G.B. Trudeau’s landmark newspaper strip is the most comprehensive book on the subject imaginable.”

Review: “It leaves out all the cartoons relating to Watergate, Reagan, Monica, New Orleans, Dubya and other politically charged times.”

Customers Also Bought: “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great,” by Rick Meyerowitz

Footnote: No Watergate strips? That would be like selling a Warner Bros. collection without Bugs, Daffy and Road Runner.

40: A Doonesbury Retrospective [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Once again, for your Co-opted Pagan Winter Solstice Observance pleasure, Eugene’s favorite Christmas carol.

[Headline: BBC]