We published about 250 posts in 2017, and consider the following the 50 best. We’ve divided them into categories to make navigating easier; as with our past “best of” lists, the Humor, Politics, Religion, Music, and Science Fiction categories account for most of the posts. (Because several of the posts fit into more than one category, they appear in more than one place.) We hope you enjoy them.
Humor
- Yet more Interesting and Marginally Useful Internet Crap
- Graphic Definition of the Day: Bootlicking
- Definition of the Day: Reform
- Extremely offensive but funny anti-Trump meme
- Kathy Griffin does Donald Trump a favor
- Quote of the Day: Jim Carrey
- Jumbo edition: Interesting and marginally useful Internet Crap
- The political prank of the decade
- Offensive Cartoon of the Day
- Joke of the Day 6-26-17
- Graphic of the Day (“So Scottsdale”)
- Another Good Old Fashioned Religion Roundup
- Definition of the Day: God
- Mustang Sally flow chart (updated)
- Definition of the Day: Vintage
- Definition of the Day: President of the United States
- Once again, Interesting and Marginally Useful Internet Crap
- Bernie Sanders and Trump
Politics
- Graphic Definition of the Day: Bootlicking
- Venezuelan Anarchist framed, detained and tortured by Maduro’s police
- The Opioid Epidemic — what no one is talking about
- Definition of the Day: Reform
- Al Perry “censored” by Youtube and PC Police
- The Black Bloc and Free Speech
- Why are Evangelicals sticking with Trump?
- Venezuelan Anarchist Beaten by Maduro’s Police
- How to fight radical Islam
- The Good Things Trump Has Done
- Extremely offensive but funny anti-Trump meme
- Kathy Griffin does Donald Trump a favor
- Quote of the Day: Jim Carrey
- Donald Trump is in bed with radical Islamists
- So, you think the Democrats are your friends?
- Jumbo edition: Interesting and marginally useful Internet Crap
- What if Clinton had won?
- Who’s responsible for this political disaster?
- The political prank of the decade
- Definition of the Day: President of the United States
- How not to talk to people about politics (and how to do it effectively)
- Nazi Germany and the USA (updated)
- Meme of the Day: Homeland Security
- Bombs Not Food?
- Bernie Sanders and Trump
- Review: The Doomed City, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- Review: Walkaway, by Cory Doctorow
- Review: American War, by Omar Al Akkad
- AA, the War on Drugs, and Disastrous Misconceptions (revised)
Religion
- Yet more Interesting and Marginally Useful Internet Crap
- Alcoholics Anonymous is Religious, not Spiritual (revised)
- Why are Evangelicals sticking with Trump?
- How to fight radical Islam
- Jumbo edition: Interesting and marginally useful Internet Crap
- Offensive Cartoon of the Day
- 20 Reasons to Abandon Christianity (complete)
- Definition of the Day: God
- The Fundamentalist Menace
- Donald Trump is in bed with radical Islamists
- Another Good Old Fashioned Religion Roundup
- Notable Atheist Science Fiction Novels (updated 2017)
Music
- Another goodbye to another good friend (Gary Lee Russell — guitarist in Killer Pussy)
- Al Perry “censored” by Youtube and PC Police
- The joys of being a musician
- Mustang Sally flow chart (updated)
- Definition of the Day: Vintage
- Interview with Alt-Country player Al Perry
Economics
Civil Liberties
Science
Interviews
- Interview with T.C Weber, author of Sleep State Inerrupt
- Interview with Alt-Country player Al Perry
- How Amazon nearly killed a small press (interview with See Sharp Press publisher Chaz Bufe)
Addictions
- Alcoholics Anonymous is Religious, not Spiritual (revised)
- The Opioid Epidemic — what no one is talking about
- A Few Ways to Moderate Your Drinking
- AA, the War on Drugs, and Disastrous Misconceptions (revised)
Anarchism
- The Black Bloc and Free Speech
- Bombs Not Food?
- Anarchist Science Fiction: Essential Novels (updated 2017)
Science Fiction
- Anarchist Science Fiction: Essential Novels (updated 2017)
- Notable Atheist Science Fiction Novels (updated 2017)
- Review: Artemis, by Andy Weir
- Review: The Moon and the Other, by John Kessell
- Review: The Doomed City, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- Interview with T.C Weber, author of Sleep State Inerrupt
- Review: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
- Review: Walkaway, by Cory Doctorow
- Review: American War, by Omar Al Akkad
- Review: Normal, by Warren Ellis
- Review: Last Year, by Robert Charles Wilson