Whether you come here for the latest developments in the John Edwards political reality show, for a booster shot of your “celebrities aren’t better than us” vaccine, or just for a good laugh, we love having you here.

Of course, we’d love you even more if you helped make our little corner of the Interwebs famous.

You’ve already been part of a pretty remarkable experiment: Three working journalists adopting pseudonyms to unmask (and, of course, mock) the most famous among us who somehow can’t manage to practice what they preach? Frankly, we were shocked nobody had ever tried this before.

But you came, you read, you clicked. Lots of times. Here are a few stats, for those of you who are interested:

• We threw the great big pink Deceiver switch on November 16, 2007.
• Since then, we’ve had 2.5 million hits (as of today!) from just over 1 million unique visitors.
• There have been more than a few days where we saw over 20,000 visitors — including February 18 of this year when, inexplicably, 43,500 of you showed up to sling mud at Kirstie Alley for being a rather zaftig Jenny Craig spokes-blimp.

Even my own wife (Mrs. Oversneer) is a confirmed Deceiver-holic, even though she’s supposed to be too good to follow gossip blogs.

So you’ve already clicked, clicked, and clicked your approval for our schtick more than once. Now we’re asking you to click a few more times. Do it for the Gipper. Or do it for Holly, who I hear is quite the kisser.

Anyway, Deceiver is in the running for the 2008 Blogger’s Choice Awards in four categories (click below to vote):

• Best Pop Culture Blog
• Best Gossip Blog
• Best Entertainment Blog
• Best Political Blog

You have to register on the awards website to participate. But once you do, please vote early and vote often. Or, as Simon might say, we’ll write about you the moment you become famous. Trust us. We can do that.