Top blogging for September: Afghanistan, COVID pieces still ride high, plus a blast from the Bill Nye past

Again, this is the list of the most popular posts DURING the last month. Not all were written IN the past month.

No. 1 is an old post from 2014 that's gotten new popularity (and I don't think due to bot-related action). It's about who won the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham debate. I told atheists Gnu and old alike that Bill Nye the Attention Whore (more accurate moniker for him) did NOT win.

(You can see the Ken Ham photoshopping at the link. I wanted to display another piece of mine instead, about another religious wingnut.)

No. 2 is from the start of the month, telling ESPN's David Schoefield and others to go light on the Shohei Ohtani superlatives about this season because it's only one season, there's the GOAT year of Walter Johnson, consider Babe Ruth (and how the BoSox, pre-sale to the Yankees already) were shifting him off the mound, and more. (I'll have further thoughts after the season is over.)

No. 3 is from the latter half of September, and courtesy an Arkansas hospital CEO, I punk pro-lifers and others, re religious exemptions to COVID vaccines based on fetal stem cell concerns.

No. 4 is also from just a couple of weeks ago and also COVID-related. It's about how Rolling Stone semi-screwed a pooch, but more, got unwittingly screwed by a doctor making an unsubstantiated claim, but how Drew Holden then made unsubstantiated claims of his own in the name of COVID-resistant wingnuttery and trying to own the libs. Dr. Jason McElyea has apparently still not caveated what Rolling Stone picked up from his comments to Oklahoma teevee.

No. 5? Also from last month, about how former Counterpunch editor Alexander Cockburn likely lied in claiming the Taliban made a no-strings-attached, conditions-free offer to surrender Osama bin Laden. (And, that doesn't totally shock me.)

No. 6? Refuting a shitload of COVID misinformation.

No. 7? My supportive take on Douglas Rushkoff, a left-liberal foe of tech-neoliberals, saying we need Basic Assets even more than Basic Income.

No. 8, like No. 5, challenged Counterpunch Afghanistan claims. In this case, I rejected the claims of Alex's younger brother Patrick (and the framing behind them) that the Taliban were undisputed masters of Afghanistan now.

No. 9? Back to the coronavirus. I called out Sam Husseini for engaging in horseshoe theory leftist misstatements about WIV and the reality of what gain of function is, and is not.

No. 10? For Labor Day, as federal job benefits expired in states still participating, I wondered about the longer-term future of former restaurant and retail workers who refused to go back to crappy workplaces.