A Blast from the Past: Socialist Realism

Graphic from Tony Honnicutt’s greatly missed ‘zine, Show Me the Money

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 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