I'm pre-dating this post because I started work on it more than a week ago and should have finished it then.
I was fairly productive last year, and got more traffic than I deserved. Here are the posts that got the most attention.
15. Coulda Woulda Shoulda (159). We told her so, but she didn't listen; she preferred to lose.
14. Scribble Scribble Scribble (165). The first of several posts on the current state of gay male fiction.
13. Your Call Is Very Important to Us (172). Elon Musk inadvertently reminded the Internet how bad the private sector is at serving the public, compared to government agencies.
12. Let Jesus Sort Them Out (173). Once again, conservative Christians showed how little value they put on children's lives.
11. If You Don't Know, I'm Certainly Not Going to Tell You! (185) The Blame Game, 2024 Elections edition.
10. That Is What Fiction Means (196). I understand and feel the appeal of punitive fantasies, the more hateful the better. But it doesn't make the world any better, or solve any problems.
9. Snatched from the Maw of the Orphan-Crushing Machine (236). I also understand the appeal of fantasizing about saving a lucky few from horrible fates we ourselves created. Still not a good idea.
8. All I Really Want to Do (323). To boycott Joanne Rowling, or not to boycott her?
7. Whole Lotta ... Somethin' (323). Swept off my feet by every inch of Robert Plant.
6. My Father's House Has Many Cafes, Crafts Vendors, Etc. (399). Returning to the site of an antigay church / cafe / vendor mall, and finding only ruins and the cries of the birds. Look on their works, ye mighty, and despair!
5. That's My Noem, Don't Wear It Out (406). The limitations of Snopes.
4. Go Ask Joanne (419). Rowling again. You're adults, pick out your own damn books!
3. The Trouble With Sydney -- Born That Way? (441). Actress and blue jeans pimp Sydney Sweeney stirred up a fuss last summer. It soon blew over...
2. All Your Genes Are Belong to Her (690) ... but not before I wrote a second consecutive post about it.
1. I Will Follow Him (702). Richard Dawkins is still in idiotic hawker mode. What would I do without him?
Bonus: Who Is My Neighbor? or, I Don't Really Care, Do U (8658). This was a strange one. One of the sites I use to monitor traffic announced that bots were responsible for much of the views some blogs were getting, and that they would no longer count those views. I'd like to think that this post earned that absurd number, but I don't think it really did. Pundit Matthew Yglesias declared it "sus" that American college students cared, or thought they cared, about faraway, foreign Palestine. He didn't feel the same way about Americans who cared, or thought they cared about faraway, foreign Israel. When challenged, he didn't explain why the two cases were different. An interesting self-revelation, I thought.
