Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

The willow is too close to the house.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

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It’s time once again to continue a tradition started by Jon Swift/Al Weisel, the “Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves.” Jon/Al left behind some wonderful satire, but was also a nice guy and a strong supporter of small blogs. (Here’s Jon/Al’s 2007 and 2008 editions.  Our revivals from 2010 through 2017 can be found here.)
 
If you’d like to participate, just reply to this e-mail or write to me (Batocchio9 AT yahoo DOT com) with your best post of the year before 12/25:
 
Blog Name
Title of Post
Link
Author of Post
Brief Description/Pitch of the Post (1–2 sentences)
 
(If it’s not a reply, adding “best post” in the subject line would also help.) 
 
To modify Jon Swift’s 2008 solicitation:
 
I would be very honored if you would participate and send me a link to what you think was your best post of [2018], along with a short description of it.  Please make the hard choice and send me only one link.  I would like to post it before the end of the year, so if you could get it to me before Christmas, I would really appreciate it.
 
One submission per blog, please, otherwise things can get messy. Group bloggers can pick a piece among themselves, but are also welcome to submit their work via their individual blogs, if they have them. 
 
As usual, I’m aiming to find the right balance between “inclusive” and “manageable.”  If you know a few excellent blogs (preferably on the smaller side) that you suspect might not be on my radar, feel free to send me their website address (and contact info, if you have it).
Contact Batocchio <[email protected]>.

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  1. 1.

    Derelict

    The 2007 and 2008 links forward to a dead end that offers to sell me the domain name “blogrolling.com”

  4. 4.

    Batocchio

    Hi everyone, as Derelict noted, the 2007 and 2008 Jon Swift links redirect, unfortunately. I’ve fixed them for the post-in-the-works.

    Please feel free to nominate a best post of the year for Balloon Juice. But as usual, if you have your own blog, please feel free to write me to submit your best post of the year, or post it in this thread. I’ll be checking back from time to time.

    Thanks to Doug for starting a thread!

  5. 5.

    debbie

    I nominate anything by Tom Levenson. The art alone makes them my favorites, but then, there’s all that wryness to enjoy.

  6. 6.

    Shana

    Can I just chime in here and thank whoever suggested The Bloggess’ post about Beyonce the metal chicken from a few years ago? I laughed so hard at that post and had never heard of her before. So a hearty “Thank You” to whoever that was.

  7. 7.

    Ruckus

    Cheryl Rofer’s post below this one, Holiday Nuclear War Talk, should be one the list as a extremely timely post, given the person who is supposed to be in charge, and who is anything but, because while timely it is also extremely necessary because we’ve gone over to the dark side too often in this country, in this century alone, without any sort of big picture of why we do the dangerous and foolish things we do. We can’t make reasonable changes in our system until we have several discussions on this topic and others like it.

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