Our First 1,000 Posts — Best Anarchism, Libertarianism, and Politics Posts

We put up our 1,000th post about three weeks ago. Since then, we’ve been looking through everything we’ve posted, and have been putting up “best of” lists in our most popular categories.

This is the ninth of our first-1,000 “best of” lists. We’ve already posted the Science Fiction, Humor, Music, Interviews, Atheism, Economics, Science/Skepticism, and Addictions lists, and will shortly be putting up our final “best of”: Religion.

Here, we’ve folded three categories (Anarchism, Libertarianism, and Politics) into this post because of the relative paucity of posts on Anarchism and Libertarianism. We hope you’ll enjoy at least some of these posts.

Anarchism

• Anarchism: What It Is and What It Isn’t
• You Call This Freedom? (Part I)
• You Call This Freedom (Part II)
• Why We Wrote the New Anarchist Cookbook
• An Anarchist Bibliography
• Anarchist Science Fiction: Essential Novels
• 35 Years of Food Not Bombs
• Anarchist Cookbook Author Arrrested for Nonviolent Activism

Libertarianism

• Don’t Call Them Libertarians
• Objectivism (definition)

Politics

• The Horror of the 2016 Election: Some Definitions
• To Vote or Not to Vote?
• Love It Or Leave It
• The “Yelling Fire” Fallacy
• McCarthyism (definition)
• Occupations
• Socialist Realism
• Vanguard Parties
• How to Avoid FBI Entrapment
• Nonviolent Direct Action
• International Proletarian Hammer Throwing and Rhetoric Flinging Competition
• The Left’s Terminology Problem
• Revolutionary Leaders
• How to Fight Islamic Terrorism
• Invisible Terrorism
• Police Brutality–How It Works
• Israel Uber Alles
• The Military: Are They All Heroes?
• Nazi Germany and the USA

Our First 1,000 Posts — Best Economics Posts

We put up our 1,000th post a little over a week ago. We’re now looking through everything we’ve posted, and are putting up “best of” lists in our most popular categories.

This is the sixth of our first-1,000 “best of” lists. We’ve already posted the Science Fiction, Humor, Music, Interviews, and Addictions lists, and will shortly be putting up other “best ofs” in several other categories, including Anarchism, Atheism, Politics, Religion, Science, and Skepticism.

Best Economics Posts

• The Food Crisis
• Donald Trump and Self-made Men
• Why the Work Week Should Be Much Shorter (Part I–productivity, wages, the distribution of wealth and income)
• Why the Work Week Should Be Much Shorter (Part II–unfair taxation)
• Why the Work Week Should Be Much Shorter (Part III–wasted tax money)
• Why the Work Week Should Be Much Shorter (Part IV–the inefficiency of capitalism)
• Why the Work Week Should Be Much Shorter (Part V–Conclusion)
• Capitalism and Human Behavior
• Solar Dollars
• Objectivism
• Anti-Minimum Wage Madness
• Don’t Call Them Libertarians

Our First 1,000 Posts — Best Humor Posts

We put up our 1,000th post a week ago. We’re now looking through everything we’ve posted, and are putting up “best of” lists in our most popular categories.

This is the fifth of our first-1,000 “best of” lists. We’ve already posted the Science Fiction, Music, Interviews, and Addictions lists, and will shortly be putting up other “best ofs” in several other categories, including Anarchism, Atheism, Economics, Politics, Religion, Science, and Skepticism.

Humor is by far our most heavily populated category, with 365 posts over the last three years. We found it difficult to pick the funniest ones, but we consider these relative few among the best.

Best Humor Posts

• The Lighter Side of Gun Registration
• Bible Tales for Ages 18 and Up (Noah Scroll excerpt)
• Love It or Leave It
• Objectivism (definition)
• Rural America’s Favorite Pastime
• Life (definition)
• Democracy (definition)
• Bible Tales for Ages 18 and Up (Ham Scroll excerpt)
• Socialist Realism
• Abductee Blues
• Televangelist (definition)
• Yes, There Is a Jesus
• Gonads (definition)
• God and the F-5 Joplin Tornado
• Single (definition)
• Lecture (definition)
• Dogspell
• Republican Party (definition)
• Why We Shouldn’t Criticize Religion
• Honest Opinion (definition)
• Why I Support Home Schooling
• We Got Cactus
• Syllogism of the Day
• Saw (definition)
• International Proletarian Hammer Throwing Contest
• A Favorite Baseball Anecdote
• Homeopathy (definition)
• Pascal’s Wager (definition)
• True Story
• RIP Yogi Berra
• Needless to Say
• Arrogance (definition)
• Why We Shouldn’t Criticize Religion #5
• Reality (definition)
• Mustang Sally Flow Chart

Best Blog Posts 2014 (Anarchism, Libertarianism, Politics, Philosophy)

We started this blog in July 2013. Since then, we’ve been posting almost daily.

When considering the popularity of the posts, one thing stands out:  in all but a few cases, popularity declines over time.

As well, the readership of this blog has expanded gradually over time, so most readers have never seen what we consider many of our best posts.

Over the next week or two we’ll put up lists of our best posts from 2014 and 2015 in the categories of atheism, religion, anarchism, humor, politics, music, science fiction, science, skepticism, book and movie reviews, writing, language use, and economics.

Because there were considerably more posts in 2014 and 2015 than in 2013, we’ll be putting up several posts for those years divided by category. We’ve already put up the following:

• Best posts of 2013
• Best Religion and Atheism posts of 2014
• Best Science, Skepticism, and Science Fiction posts of 2014
• Best Humor posts of 2014
• Best Addictions posts of 2014
• Best Music posts of 2014

Here’s the final 2014 installment.

Anarchism

• Anarchism: What It Is and What It Isn’t
• You Call This Freedom? (Part I)
• You Call This Freedom (Part II)

Libertarianism

• Don’t Call Them Libertarians
• Objectivism (definition)

Philosophy

• Nietzsche and Mencken
• Zen and the Art of Fallacious Reasoning
• Proving a Negative

Politics

• To Vote or Not to Vote?
• Educational Work
• Demonstrations
• Love It Or Leave It
• Republican Party (definition)
• Co-ops
• McCarthyism (definition)
• Labor Organizing
• Occupations
• Elder Statesman (definition)
• Socialist Realism

We’ll put up the first of the 2015 “best of”  lists later this week.

Definition of the Day 4-3-14 — Objectivism

OBJECTIVISM, n. 1)  A cult ideology combining worship of a second-tier romance novelist with sociopathy; 2) The most grandiose excuse imaginable for failure to pay child support.

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–from the revised and expanded edition of The American Heretic’s Dictionary, the best modern successor to Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary

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