The 2011 Stinque Awards
If we were to sum up 2011 in a word, and since “malaise” is legendarily, if not factually, taken, we would choose miasma, which our StinquePad dictionary calls “an oppressive or unpleasant atmosphere that surrounds or emanates from something”. It’s not any one thing that sucked. Everything sucked. To find out how much, visit any of our linked award presentations below.
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Opening Ceremonies | Technical Awards for Nice People |
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Le Prix Trudeau for Best Un-American Activity |
Julian Assange European Union Bernard-Henri Lévy Tokyo Electric Uganda |
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Eminence Grease for Most Evil Organization |
American Legislative Exchange Council Bank of America The Nation’s Mayors and Selected University Administrators Penn State U.S. House of Representatives |
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Platinum Pampers for Best Sex Scandal |
Herman Cain! Christopher Lee Anthony Weiner |
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Potassium Propeller Beanie for Respected Irrationality in Public Life |
Charles Krauthammer David Gregory Paul Ryan Newt Gingrich |
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Bronze Batshit for Wackiest Republican Presidential Candidate |
Michele Bachmann Herman Cain! Jon Huntsman Rick Perry Mitt Romney |
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Golden Anal Pear for Asshole of the Year |
Joe Arpaio Newt Gingrich Tim Tebow Barack Obama |
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Crystal Douchebag for Lifetime Achievement | Newt Gingrich Rupert Murdoch Grover Norquist Donald Trump |
NOJO • Nightmare at the Museum From the last time he threatened to bomb Iran, 2020. Remember that one? All a misty blur now.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Only the sane parts... like the West coast, New England (minus the Bruins and…
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: So, can you guys annex us now?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! PP is done. 51st state, my ass.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @FlyingChainSaw: No, but my government was.
FLYINGCHAINSAW • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Were you kidnapped?
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @FlyingChainSaw: I’ve spent the past five weeks looking like Astronaut Dave going through the…
FLYINGCHAINSAW • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! NOJO - HOW COME WE'RE NOT COVERING KRASNOV?
NOJO • The Reckoning Four years later: Uhhh, how’d that work out?