SocraticGadfly: Top blogging of September

October 06, 2025

Top blogging of September

It's the usual roundup of the top 10 posts of last month, by readership.

Per that, not all of them were FROM last month; as normal, there's evergreen posts returning to life which will be so noted.

With that, starting the drumroll:

No. 10, from July: Trump is actually right on California's high-speed rail. By extension, he's also right on Texas' high-speed rail. You cannot let such stuff get politicized, whether here or the Chinese Communist Party Potemkin HSR. 

No. 9 is from May: "Three Dems on SCOTUS, no environmentalists." Now that you know the Rethuglicans, with partial exceptions of Roberts and Barrett will ignore precedent, you have to as well, while also admitting your own precedent for partially gutting the ESA was weak tea. 

No. 8? Don't go to Montreal in an MLB expansion, Rob Manfred! 

No. 7, from just 10 days or so ago, was the second half of a split Texas Progressives roundup, about things like book bans

No. 6 was from 2019. "Magnificent Monet" was my impression of a fabulous late-life Monet exhibit at the Kimbell Art Museum, complete with photos of paintings. 

No. 5, also from 2019, was a slice of alt history. "Imagine No American Indians" was thinking about if the Western Hemisphere had nobody here before Europeans' entrada. 

No. 4, also from 2019, as I wonder about bot boosting for some nefarious reason. Unfortunately, because Libertarians ran crap in 2020 and Dems ran nobody, contra my piece, Drew Springer never was in election trouble. 

No. 3 was from 2018: "Goldy to the Cards?" Unfortunately, though he won an MVP, Paul Goldschmidt delivered little in the way of postseason success. 

No. 2 was from 2021. "More pressure on Texas to loosen pot rules" never happened. I know by know that as long as Dannie Goeb, aka Dan Patrick, is Lite Guv of Texas, no such lightening will ever happen. That said, as long as Strangeabbott is gov, no tightening will happen either. 

No. 1 was also 2019, and about my assessment of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. I foolishly had St. Bernard of Sanders at No. 1 on late 2019 odds; Kirsten Gillibrand (who?) and Kamala is a Zionist Cop were tied for second in my guesstimates, with Dementia Joe and R.F. Beto-Bob O'Rourke tied for fourth.

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