Top blogging in August

For the month of August, multiple of my most popular blog posts (not all written in August) dealt with media issues.

But, over the last 30 days, the No. 1 post was "Bonnen vs Mucus vs Dems." I remain convinced that Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and wingnut de luxe Michael Quinn Sullivan, the emissary of Christo-fascist Tim Dunn, were negotiating something or another, and continued to do so after Mucus first went public about their not agreeing on terms Bonnen allegedly offered.

No. 2? My re-read and re-review of Richard Frank's "Downfall," posted for the anniversary of Hiroshima bombing. I have no problem disagreeing with many fellow leftists who find the bombing there, and even more, Nagasaki, so abhorrent that they rewrite history.

Nos 3, 5, 6 and 9 were directly or indirectly about media issues.

In No. 3, I bemoaned the closing of Pacific Standard, but told others in the media spinning false narratives that its demise was largely self-inflicted.

In No. 5, I talked about the proposed craptacular Gannett-Gatehouse merger, and some likely effects specific to Texas.

At No. 6 was the second installment of my callout on Julian Assange whataboutism by people who are convinced without any doubt he's a journalist (I remain ambivalent about where he falls, and note that Snowden has never claimed to be one), but beyond that, ignore his part in peddling the Seth Rich conspiracy theory, etc.

No. 9 was about reasons not to trust Politifact.

The others?

No. 4 looked at the possibility of Rust Belt 2016 Trump voters undervoting the 2020 presidential election (or sitting out of voting entirely). It drew Twitter flak from a junior-grade Trumpist who later was refuted by a steelworker calling him an idiot.

No. 7? Trump's Greenland follies, updated for Sharpie genius and Dorian.

No. 8? I looked at the possibility of Amazon becoming like the People's Republic of China, specifically in the possibility of doing something parallel to Beijing's forcing American manufacturing companies into technology information surrender. In this case, it's Amazon possibly doing like that to reverse engineer small appliances into its own brands just to slap Alexa or Dash controls on them.

No. 10 was an update on the real estate grifting connected with the Texas high speed rail project.