SocraticGadfly: 9/6/26 - 9/13/26

September 07, 2026

Top blogging of August 2026

As is normal, not all of these were written last month. Rather, per Blogger's sometimes-dubious stats, they reportedly were the most popular for last month.

No. 10 was from not too far away, in July. It was an update on the unethical moderators at the r/AskHistorians subreddit, who it turns out are pretendian leftists

No. 9, from last month, asked "What if Jason Arday WERE a fraud"? 

No. 8, from late 2023, was a roundup of thoughts on the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, broken trust between leftist Israelis and Palestinians, and Putin punking Western sanctions.

No. 7, a Texas Progressives roundup from late July. (More and more, the term "progressives" is of course tohu w'vohu.) 

No. 6, my splitting of a Texas Progressives roundup from August, where I actually called out, myself, both halves of the duopoly, specifically both Kenny Boy Paxton and Talafreako Talarico.

No. 5, an oldie but goodie from 2014, my gloating over skeptic, and libertarian fusing his libertarian politics with skepticism, Brian Dunning, found guilty of wire fraud. 

No. 4? Trending because I posted it recently on the r/DeathValleyNP sub-Reddit, my piece about Steve Curry getting himself killed because he chose to hike Golden Canyon in midday sun in July 2023 — at the age of 71. At age 62, this spring, when in Death Valley during the big hottening up in late March, when Furnace Creek was hitting 110 some days, I paced myself in the afternoon.

No. 3 was from 2024 and was an extended review of Steve Vladeck's book "The Shadow Docket." Gee, why is that trending again? 

No. 2, even more than the Dunning one, is a synopsis, which due to timing, turned into a semi-takedown obit, of Alan Smithee, aka Actual Flatticus, IRL Chris Chopin, whom I still suspect of being a poseur of some sort, if. not controlled opposition.

No. 1? From 2018, a callout of the hypocrisy and lies of Sema Hernandez, who had challenged R.F. Beto-Bob O'Rourke for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Texas that spring.