As normal, not all posts are from the last month; whether new or "evergreen," they're the most read in the past month.
With that, and the normal reverse countdown, I dig in.
No. 10 is more than a decade old. It's about how convicted libertarian fraudster and alleged (pseudo-?) skeptic Brian Dunning hadn't changed when he got out of jail.
No. 9 was the last Texas Progressives roundup for July; yours truly posted his piece about data centers.
No. 8? Tim Tredwell was really fricking nuts 20 years ago and still is today.
No. 7? The mods at Reddit's Ask Historians subreddit turned out to be pretendian pseudoleftists, not actual leftists, as is usually the case for identitarian librulz. (My refusal to accept all of their identitarian librul claims about genocide of American Indians is what led the shitheads to block me. One of the mods then committed academically unethical research about people blocked from the sub; worse, Cornell's research committee on her project did nothing.) I used the term "pretendian" in the header deliberately.
No. 6? Chris Stedman's "Faithiest" had more intellectual holes in it than Swiss cheese, which he tried to cover by melting into a tasty PR and marketing fondue, 13 years ago. It still does.
No. 5 is straight politics, from a few years ago. It’s a roundup of some of the most odious lies by shyster-type lawyer Ty Clevenger about Seth Rich and the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.
No. 4 plays off No. 9; it’s my writing about Dunning’s conviction.
No. 3 is also an oldie but even more a goodie. It’s my investigative journalism about who Alan Smithee, more commonly styled as Actual Flatticus, but really named Chris Chopin, was in reality. Politically, he was a straight duopoly librul, if that, and had he not died young, IMO, would have gotten himself caught in the Seth Rich conspiracy theory morass full on.
No. 2 is from 2018: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, idiot.
No. 1 (drummmmmmrrrrrrrooooooolllllll)
My presidential rankings, of relevance in part because it’s dated coming from 2017. With nine years of hindsight and us now in Trump 2.0, I’d revise to put him in the bottom malebolge with Andy Johnson, Buck Buchanan and Frank Pierce. I’d also revise to push Lincoln from A+ to A, even with grading on a curve, and maybe even A-. I’d still keep him No. 1, which would pull Washington down to A-, too.
