SocraticGadfly: The year in blogging 2021

January 05, 2022

The year in blogging 2021

Here's the 10 most read posts from the past year. Not all are from 2021, just the 10 most read. The biggest from this year were primarily baseball-related.

No. 1? My old 2014 post about the "debate" between Ken Ham and Bill Nye the Science Guy, aka Bill Nye the Attention Whore, took off midsummer last year and has trended since. With the photoshopping by moi, but of course!

No. 2 is my story about St. Louis Cardinals vice president John Mozeliak rat-fucking manager Mike Schildt for opening his mouth too much.

No. 3 is even older than No. 1. It's about a Google dustup with China, coming even before the rise of Xi Jinping Thought, which makes Google's "do no evil except capitalism" even more relevant today.

No. 4? Shohei Ohtani, indeed I said, until he has a second year of this, is no Babe Ruth.

No. 5? My COVID-related wondering, along with many other skeptical minds, of just what did happen to John Ionannidis.

No. 6? Me calling out the Cooperstown veterans committees for choosing the likes of Jim Kaat, Tony Oliva and Gil Hodges for the Hall.

No. 7? From 2019, how the Genetic Literacy Project doesn't always get it right, like with the relative UN-healthiness of the Impossible Burger.

No. 8? My thoughts on the retirement of Buster Posey and his shot (and that of Yadier Molina) at the Hall.

No. 9 is also an old one from 2010 — can a college discriminate against a religious group?

No. 10 is from 2018. It's my callout of Marcy Wheeler, aka Emptywheel, for drinking 190 proof Putingate and narcking on someone still unnamed.

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