It’s time to stop being wishy-washy about our value assessments. A few years ago, someone convinced me to drop the title “Best Blogs” from this annual list and change it to “Most Notable” blogs of the year. It made sense at the time, when the medium was still figuring itself out: chiefs were being chosen, voice still being refined. But as I began to assemble this year’s list, it became clear that, no, these blogs actually were my favorites, not merely the most interesting.

BREAKING: a state trooper somewhere pulled a car over at a three-way intersection. No one knows why. Alas, there is not that much more to this story from Hudson, New York’s Register-Star. But do you want to know which intersection it was? Find out after the jump!

Animal New York’s Bucky Turco has a 9/11 anecdote up at his site: Remembering how, on the night of September 11th, rollerblading down to media-barred Ground Zero with a stealth camera in hand, 2001, Diane Sawyer tapped him on the shoulder and called him to duty.