The 2006 Cannite Award

Lennibus Cannibus is an old traveler from the late 70s - the forerunner for personal discovery of dragons and high clouds. His player was known as Cannite and was a bashing bashful sort that protected the wizard Bud the Wizer. Role playing has always been a creative part of the dr. lenny psyche, so as i achieve the next phase of interactivity betwixt life and gaming, I offer a freedom of voice award - the Cannite - to my friends and aquaintences inside the net. Anyone that has physically met Dr. Lenny in real context in real life during the calendar year is eliminated from consideration. The Cannite is awarded to constructive critics of compulsion with the ability to control one's self as a means for societal order. If we can discern truth and it doesn't matter to anyone in the scheme of things, then why pretend that we have a civil society. And when we can discern truth - then we have to pay attention to the fact and stop believing the farce. Speak truth to power and non-power alike and well - you may win the Cannite. There is no physical prize nor monetary award - just a heartfelt sense of thanks.

As this old year peters howdt - i'd like to recognize some of the best trains of thought that we've followed in 2006. Cannite's Crew alongside Captain Lemme Howdt: three top essayist are Paul C. Roberts, Mike Rozeff and Wil Alston ! top three blogs are all in the Cross Lynx - to herd or not to herd, St. George blog, and -!- Sunni Maravillosa and the Conspirators -!- . The three top essay info-sites are Counterpunch, Lew Rockwell and Strike-the-Root. Cartoonists are Tom Toles, Pat Oliphant and Gary Trudeau - who has made Zonker Harris into a surfer boy icon again. Game places are Scheming Mind , It's Your Turn and Flying Buffalo. The top single place on the whole web for howdtstanding bizarro, cut with the depthful search for truth in the maddening throng, the 2006 Cannite winner is Rigorous Intuition. Jeff Wells and his commenting cast of characters find the nits that bug everybody and needle them back in until they fester howdt truth and heal the need for more (for the next moment or two).