Top posts of 2023

As usual, not all are FROM 2023, but these were the most read of last year. We'll work from bottom up.

At No. 10, I wrote about the cautionary tale of Jacob de Grom and his being shelved again last summer. (We'll see how Shohei Ohtani as pitcher plays out with the Dodgers in 2025, speaking of.)

No. 9 was also sports-based. I offered my advance thoughts on Adam Silver's in-season NBA tournament. (In the aftermath, I stand by the general idea of "interesting, but not more" from my POV.

No. 8 is from 2020, but has gotten renewed life on Twitter due to Bari Weiss' blatant, genocide-supporting Zionism, as well as Ken White, aka Popehat, discussing this on Substack, where I dropped the link. It was about Jesse Singal stanning for the disgusting actual cancel culture letter in Harper's, at that time.

At No. 7, I looked at the Reddit strike, and a fair amount of hypocrisy from some subreddit moderators as well as Reddit's ownership.

At No. 6, "I come to bury Rod Dreher, not to praise him," after finding out last March that his editorial gravy train was cut off.

No. 5 was a 2018 piece about reforming the World Cup, specifically shootouts.

No. 4 was a Texas Progressives roundup from 2021 that started trending. Maybe it was about Hillary Clinton self-Russiagating?

No. 3? Oh, I had fun with this. It was in response to Sy Hersh's largely wrong, for reasons of ax-grinding, getting used, or more, about the Nord Stream pipeline blowup, which was also, besides his Tiger Woods type "hello world," his debut on Substack. Subsequent posts show he's nailing the monetization angle.

No. 2? I discussed what's wrong with the idea of "vaccinating" against misinformation.

Drumroll ......

At No. 1 was a Carnival of the Godless blogroll roundup from 2009. It was kind of nostalgic in that most of those people aren't around online any more.