By your command.

Also: context?

Okay, I'll get right on that. But is there anything in specific that prompted this exhortation?

I'm guessing Mr. Sanders brought this on?

Okay, I'm not up for elder statesman, but I've been around for a wee bit, and I assure you: It is not just an honor to be nominated, it is better to be nominated than to win. In judged awards, the winners are the compromises: I love A, you love B, but neither of is terribly offended by C, so C gets the award. In awards voted by a group, McDonald's wins, and it ain't because of their special sauce. (Uh, does Mickey D's have special sauce? This anti-corporatist vegetarian is so out of touch when it comes to the food that the US is dying to eat.) I should also add that in neither case is the winner necessarily bad; it just isn't the best. If someone acts like an award meant something, ask, "Did you get fries with that?"

Okay, maybe not.

A whole 'nother rant is how awards have screwed up SFWA, and the Nebs haven't meant a thing since the same work started winning both Hugos and Nebulas, but now that I've established my crotchety creds, I'll shut up.

McDonald's has special sauce. Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickels, onions, on a sesame seed bun.

I want to purge just typing that.

I was tricked (tricked, I say!) into reading the latest news.sff.net trainwreck. But, really, it’s a recurring problem.

And, yes, Will, being a nominee is its own reward. Plus you can share it.

I'd be curious to see this trainwreck. But then, I'm ghoulish.