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The Inaugural "Hardy Hinge Award"

This is a very special week here in the Suitably Flip bailiwick, as we're unveiling the winner of the first weekly Hardy Hinge Award.

Each Friday, our team of highly-trained media analysts will sift through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy.  Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).

Due to breaking events late Friday, we were regrettably unable to publish this week's nominees in time for their due vote.  Happily, our team of highly-trained media analysts was able to reach the unanimous decision to summarily declare Amnesty International the honored recipient.

Official Proclamation, for immediate release:

"In light of recently published comments encouraging the foreign imprisonment of U.S. Government officials, in recognition of their uncommon opinions of U.S. terrorist detention facilities, in avowal of their of their willingness to recite unsubstantiated hooey* before the House Judiciary Committee, and in awe of their long-standing and bold aloofness toward all reason and rationale, we at Suitably Flip farcically present this Hardy Hinge Award to Amnesty International, USA."

This week's runners-up:

• Howard Dean, for his delightful and astoundingly consistent inability to concatenate words that form inoffensive statements.
• The ACLU, for their most recent reproach of the Patriot Act (capably refuted here and here).

Each nominee put up strong numbers this week, but Amnesty's recent body of work simply rises to a new level of detachment.

On behalf of the organization, Amnesty Chairman Chip Pitts will shortly receive the above-pictured hardware, the attractive and dependable S. Parker Brass-Plated Plain Bearing Full Mortise Template Hinge (fully swaged, screws and removable pin included, handsome acrylic case and mahogany base not).

May it bring Mr. Pitts and his organization a renewed coupling with reality.

Be sure to stop in to vote on the next round of nominees, to be posted Friday.

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* During Friday's hearing on re-authorization of the Patriot Act, Pitts claimed that librarians in the U.S. have indeed been compelled (presumably by the FISA Court under Section 215) to divulge business records.  Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner gave Pitts a deadline of 7 days to provide documentation of such to the committee.  That gives him until the 17th...

Watch the full video of the hearing.

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The Inaugural "Hardy Hinge Award"

This is a very special week here in the Suitably Flip bailiwick, as we're unveiling the winner of the first weekly Hardy Hinge Award.

Each Friday, our team of highly-trained media analysts will sift through the week's most detached diatribes and fatuous fugues to nominate candidates for this prestigious (and practical) trophy.  Whichever nominee then earns the most votes from the blog-going public by the end of the weekend will be commissioned the week's most unhinged individual (or organization, media outlet, celebreality washout, etc.).

Due to breaking events late Friday, we were regrettably unable to publish this week's nominees in time for their due vote.  Happily, our team of highly-trained media analysts was able to reach the unanimous decision to summarily declare Amnesty International the honored recipient.

Official Proclamation, for immediate release:

"In light of recently published comments encouraging the foreign imprisonment of U.S. Government officials, in recognition of their uncommon opinions of U.S. terrorist detention facilities, in avowal of their of their willingness to recite unsubstantiated hooey* before the House Judiciary Committee, and in awe of their long-standing and bold aloofness toward all reason and rationale, we at Suitably Flip farcically present this Hardy Hinge Award to Amnesty International, USA."

This week's runners-up:

• Howard Dean, for his delightful and astoundingly consistent inability to concatenate words that form inoffensive statements.
• The ACLU, for their most recent reproach of the Patriot Act (capably refuted here and here).

Each nominee put up strong numbers this week, but Amnesty's recent body of work simply rises to a new level of detachment.

On behalf of the organization, Amnesty Chairman Chip Pitts will shortly receive the above-pictured hardware, the attractive and dependable S. Parker Brass-Plated Plain Bearing Full Mortise Template Hinge (fully swaged, screws and removable pin included, handsome acrylic case and mahogany base not).

May it bring Mr. Pitts and his organization a renewed coupling with reality.

Be sure to stop in to vote on the next round of nominees, to be posted Friday.

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* During Friday's hearing on re-authorization of the Patriot Act, Pitts claimed that librarians in the U.S. have indeed been compelled (presumably by the FISA Court under Section 215) to divulge business records.  Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner gave Pitts a deadline of 7 days to provide documentation of such to the committee.  That gives him until the 17th...

Watch the full video of the hearing.