Blogging last month (recorded as of New Year's Eve) was heavy on baseball, as I did what I normally do this time of year — play my own version of Hot Stove League for the next St. Louis Cardinals season, followed by assessing Hall of Fame candidacies (so far this offseason, primarily looking at the veterans committee).
No. 1 was in the second half of that vein, where I insisted, contra Atlanta Tomahawk Choppers, that Dale Murphy is NOT a Hall of Famer. (The VC agreed.)
No. 3 called for Cardinals pitching upgrades in general and No. 4 explicitly called for trading Matt Carpenter for David Price.
No. 8 was another baseball post, this one about the (relative) endurance of Albert Pujols even as other first basemen slump lower than him in their baseball old age.
Some weren't from December, or even from this year. A long-ago post about how Iran going nuclear might LOWER Middle East tensions was No. 2 after breaking into the top 10 in November.
Sitting at No. 6 was a recent political blog post with some connections to that, as I lamented the smear jobs against Jeremy Corbyn while also wondering if he couldn't have run a better campaign, and followed party discipline better by opening standing for Remain.
At No. 5 was a cultural post even older than the Iranian bomb post. People can't get enough discussion about Timothy Treadwell being fricking nuts.
No. 7 was a new cultural post, about the smugness of Apple's iCult.
No. 9 was updating old blogging, in light of new Twitter interactions, about the conspiracy theorists at Consortium News.
No. 10 was about the 10th anniversary of the Texas Tribune, and how I said the anniversary of the online paper should NOT be the occasion for uncritical huzzahs and handsprings.
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