With an eye-popping [1] 80% of the vote demonstrating that the time has come for a Change, I have been elected "Best Infidel Blogger" over at the [2] Infidel Blogger Awards. I thank the electorate for the honor it has bestowed upon me, and congratulate the other winners, which include such eminent warriors as Kathy Shaidle, Debbie Schlussel, Ezra Levant, and Mark Steyn.

"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."