Today is the first anniversary of the inaugural post on this blog. In the succeeding 12 months, we’ve had 295 posts and 418 comments (not counting the more than 1,000 spam comments, few of which have penetrated our formidable spam defenses), and these are our 20 most read blog posts during that year:
- Freedom Walk Description Changes (August 15): the first of a series obsessively tracking the Pentagon’s Freedom Walk site (far and away the most read post because it was linked by Atrios)
- Bizarre Smear Campaign in Ward 3 (November 5): a report on an odd local political campaign
- The Next Nuagmire (January 14): a little joke about a serious thing
- Our Liberal Media (September 26): one of many examinations of bias in the Washington Post
- Post Wants Democratic Surrender on Social Security (October 31): highlighting a Washington Post editorial asking Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on Social Security
- The DLC Rises Again (July 26): ranting about the Republican wing of the Democratic Party
- HUD Joins Freedom Walk Promotion (September 7): further word about the Freedom Walk, and the pressuring of government employees to participate
- Milquetoast Democrats Strike Again (July 23): criticism of wimps in the Senate
- A Skunk at the Freedom Walk Party (August 30): an alert about anti-everything religious wacko Fred Phelps’s attendance at the Freedom Walk
- Glenn Reynolds, Supergenius (March 20): a bit of fun at the expense of Instapundit
- Where Is Home? (July 10): recognition of the Poor Man’s ridicule of the flypaper strategy
- Separated at Birth? (October 6): a suggestion about who should play Judith Miller in the Plame movie
- Cillizza Strikes Again (November 29): more Post criticism, focusing on the blogger of “The Fix”
- Bush Diagnosed With Abramoffoma (February 12): the first photo of the president with the most famous lobbyist in the country
- It’s All About Dubya (August 15): one of a series on the character defects of Bush and others in his administration
- Where Are the Slimers? (October 26): idle speculation about the Republican smear machine
- Webb Enters Virginia Senate Race (February 8): an announcement about a promising challenger to George Allen, which now ranks very high in results for popular Google searches like “Virginia Senate race”
- Cillizza Update (December 8): more on Cillizza
- Ready, Aim, Sing! (October 3): introduction to the Right Brothers, a Bush-supporting musical group who surprisingly are not a parody
- Rule of Law (October 21): an explanation of Republicans’ idea that laws apply to everyone but them
