I'm entered in a new blog contest -- this one called BlogMadness 2003, designed to emulate the March Madness NCAA basketball tournament. It consists of rounds of single-elimination, head-to-head contests, where a blogger wins by getting the most votes and moving into the next bracket. BlogMadness explains:

A few weeks ago Manny and I stumbled upon a little idea: what would happen if you combined the fun and excitement of March Madness with the writing (brilliant and otherwise) which abounds in the blogosphere? The result of our discussion was the creation of a Blog Tournament. Everyone would go through their 2003 archives (which is fun in and of itself), pull out their very best post, and enter it in the tournament. We'll throw together a bracket, everyone will vote, and in the end the winners will be crowned King or Queen of some small portion of Blogland.

Hopefully, along the way, we'll all find some new daily reads, read some great writing, and leave this big mess of sites on the 'net a little more connected than we found it. Or maybe we'll just end up with a lot of petty bickering and de-linking? I'm not really sure, but I guess we'll find out.

So what I need you all to do, starting around 11 PM EST, is to use the link to go to the voting form. I'm up against d-42's post on pornography and its lack of effect on family life. (Well-written but I disagree with his conclusions.) Read both his entry and my entry, think carefully about which is better ... and vote for me anyway. While you're there, check out the other 115 blog entries in the contest, and cast your votes for your favorites.

Let me know what you think of this new contest -- it looks like another fun and amusing diversion!

UPDATE: Thanks for the hat-tip from Hugh Hewitt, and welcome to Hugh's readers and listeners! You may want to check out another blogger on Hugh's blogroll, the Evangelical Outpost, who's entered in this bracket. And don't forget about Patterico's Pontifications in this bracket, who's putting up his excellent LA Times bias retrospective.

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