SocraticGadfly: Top blogging of November (belated)

December 13, 2023

Top blogging of November (belated)

Again, not all of these posts are from November; they're just the most popular of the last month.

No. 10? Based on a piece from Smithsonian, my takedown on the Ev Psych sexism of "man (the male) the (noble, is usually implied) hunter," vs the female gatherer in the background.

No. 9? Getting tired of Michael Hudson's incorrect biblical exegesis, even if in the service of a noble cause of tackling the world of capitalist debt. This time, though, it's not in such noble service; instead, he tries to explain away the clear words in I Samuel of Yahweh ordering Saul to commit a holocaust, a genocide, of the Amalekites. Coming in the middle of the ongoing Israel-Gaza war, even if he's not stanning for Netanyahu, it's bad optics.

No. 8? Speaking of? Watching oldtimers leave the Democratic Socialists of America and shaking my head, in part because the younger generation won't write blank checks to Bibi.

What would be No. 7 actually has a Dec. 1 date, so it's getting skipped.

No. 6? Fuck Biden and his IRS for politicizing Obamacare. A 180 on normal versions of calling out politicization there, but I don't care. 

No. 5? My mock JFK conspiracy theory, that Mossad assassinated him over Dimona. It actually makes much more scary sense than any real conspiracy theory.

No. 4? Not recent. I said in June of this year that I probably owed Sam Husseini an apology over possible bioengineering of COVID, or at least, experimentation to that end. (I still remain somewhat skeptical, and probably more skeptical than I was when I wrote that. I also add that "bioengineering" is not "bioweaponization," which is where Husseini had been headed.)

No. 3 comes from Texas politics. I first smelled a rat in Pat Fallon himself, when he said he'd leave Congress to run for his old Senate District 30 seat; turns out the rat was Danny Goeb himself, aka Dan Patrick.

No. 2 is also from December, but I'll link it anyway, because #AbandonBiden is totally correct. And, related?

No. 1 is from 2020, when I called out Jesse Singal for hypocritically stanning for the real cancel culture letter in Harper's Magazine. I posted it, IIRC, last month to one of Ken White's Substacks, and later tweeted it directly to cancel culture queen and letter signer Bari Weiss.

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