SocraticGadfly: Top blogging of August

September 13, 2022

Top blogging of August

Only listing nine posts this month instead of the usual 10. By the time I had gotten around to this on Sept. 3, my Sept. 2 Barbara Ehrenreich obit had already jumped into the top 10. And, I've been putting back posting this, with plenty of breaking news, the weekly Texas Progressives and other things giving me more than one post a day since then.

No. 1? A long ago piece about felonious Dallas-area "journalism" Walter Mitty imitator Joey Dauben. Trending hard because of Dauben's 2008 electoral observations about then-Ali Akbar, who you know today as Ali Alexander.

No. 2? Week 18 of my Russia-Ukraine war updates, this about the ethical corruption of Ukraine violating Geneva Conventions issues as documented by Amnesty International.

No. 3? Locally, while I have already decided to undervote my local county judge's race.

No. 4 was my RIP for the most nutty Texas Libertarian, and one of the most nutty national ones, on the far side of Dan Behrman. RIP Michael Badnarik.

No. 5? RIP Gorbachev.

No. 6 was about how the FDA recently decided puberty blockers like Lupron needed black box warnings, and even more importantly in a sense, how the mainstream media continues to do a news blackout about this, reinforcing that, to some degree, stereotypes about the MSM, or lamestream media, are true.

No. 7? High Country News not only went woke again, but engaged in a semi self own. (They actually did it twice.)

No. 8 is my longform about the Bureau of Reclamation dropping a semi-hammer (fake hammer might be more accurate yet in hindsight) on the three states of the Lower Colorado River basin, how that might, or might not, stimulate them to get more serious about voluntary agreements, and about how this has broader implications.

No. 9 was my laughingly scornful refutation of some semi-libertarian nutter claiming that child car seats act as a contraceptive.

Interestingly, all but the first were from August, indicating heavy visitation for the month.

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