SocraticGadfly: Top blogging of May

June 09, 2023

Top blogging of May

Not the norm, but all of the most read of my blogging during May was in fact from May.

No. 1 was from last month, like all of it, and what Blue Anon warmongers and NAFO fellas still hate to here. Per world-renowned economist James K. Galbraith, sanctions not only haven't crushed Russia, its economy has gotten stronger in some ways.

No. 2? One of May's Texas Progressives Roundups, about Bryan Slaton, guns and other Texas Lege nuttery.

No. 3 and related? How Slaton is a symptom of an ongoing refusal by the Southern Baptist Convention to address a sex abuse scandal within the denomination.

No. 4? My thoughts on Canada's new social media law as a guide to Section 230 reforms here in the US.

No. 5? Gaslighting in the Southwest, or how the new temporary Colorado River deal is not all that.

No. 6 was non-political, but about racism and datedness in classic comedy. (Classic running up through the time of my beloved M*A*S*H. Mel Brooks is a prime offender.)

No. 7? I called out People's CDC types and fellow travelers like Pat the Berner for framing a non-factual image of current COVID issues to attack Biden.  (The curve has flattened even more since then, with less than 110 COVID deaths last week.)

No. 8? Given a semi-sneering comment on Twitter by a blue-check Blue Anon, and tied in with recent book reading, I couldn't help but blog on the political football of the all-volunteer army vs a return of the draft.

No. 9? Refuting the letter of one historian, and even more, refuting the spirit of two others engaged in PR, as to the origins of Memorial Day.

No. 10? Looking at the gun control inaction of the Texas Lege in a season of mass murder capped by the Allen Premium Outlets shooting.

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