Vagabond Scholar has the Jon Swift posts of the year nominated by the bloggers themselves. Check it out.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
You cannot shame the shameless.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.
You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.
Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.
Infrastructure week. at last.
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
People are complicated. Love is not.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
Consistently wrong since 2002
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.
Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
AhabTRuler
Tag FAIL.
dr. bloor
Your link fu is weak, grasshopper.
bk
that makes three of us
DougJ
I have trouble doing this on my iPhone.
Superluminar
Try doing blockquotes on an iPod touch. I am now going to destroy the comity of this blog and invite myself for a Moore award by wishing Steve Jobs would DIAF.
WereBear
@Superluminar: I’ve found that the iTouch works best by first clicking on the designation you want, writing your comment or quote, then clicking it again, which has now changed to a / in front of it.
JPL
DougJ, Ayn Rand fans hang their collective heads in shame that you can’t go Galt.
The BJ article that was linked to was a classic and I’m glad to see that it made the list.
Southern Beale
The Wingnut Welfare Gravy Train Rolls On: because there truly is no fail too spectacular to drive a conservative off the op-ed pages. Start a war for shits and giggles? No problem!
JPL
@Southern Beale: Congrats on being awarded a Jon Swift post of the year.
geg6
@Southern Beale:
Hey! Good to see both you and Cole making the list. The Benen post is very worthy also.
Cat Lady
Someone took my suggestion for the BJ blog post of the year. Yay, me! I’m glad somone’s lookin’ out for this place. Also.
Professor
@Southern Beale: I went to your blog to peruse a bit. Don’t forget that the London Times and the Wall Street Journal are owned by Rupert the dirty digger Murdock. Just saying!
Michael D.
@DougJ: If I still had access to edit, I would be able to fix this. :-)
slag
I miss Jon Swift! Never knew him but loved his work and frequently find myself wishing he were still around. Many thanks to all those who are continuing to pay tribute to Swift’s memory! He was great and it benefits us all that his work lives on.
thomas Levenson
Jon Swift was one of the real gentlefolk of the blogosphere; he’s missed.
Batocchio did a very good thing by honoring his memory thusly, and I’m grateful to him for grabbing one of mine. I chose one of my McArdle screeds — the Elizabeth Warren post that bounced around the web a bit. I’m not sure if it was my best — but it certainly travelled the most.
DougJ
@Michael D.:
Ha!
Batocchio
Thanks for posting this, Doug, and thanks to everybody else for the suggestions in the previous thread. Happy New Year, all!
Comrade PhysioProf
Wahy late and no one’s still here, but thanks for linking to this! Jon Swift was a true mensch, as is Batocchio for keeping the spirit alive, and so are you for linking!