Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar has posted this year’s John Swift Memorial Roundup of “The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves”.
On the Balloon Juice front, it includes a frippery from yours truly, and characteristically fine posts from Kay and Tom Levenson and from a number of BJ favorites, such as TBogg’s “Bristol Palin’s Airing of Grievances” (which crams more spite into 400 words than I had thought possible) and Driftglass’ tragic fuckeulogy (TM – The Bugle) for David Broder.
More importantly, there are dozens of posts from bloggers great and small and new and old (and quite often sweary) which will have your bookmarking finger working overtime.
I particularly liked “Scenes from the first week of school” from A Blog about School, Stonekettle Station’s “Everybody’s So Different, I Haven’t Changed“, “On Inoculation” by nothstine at p3, and the quite lovely “This one is for my dad” from Mock, Paper, Scissors.
I’m also a little annoyed that no one ever told me about Zaius Nation or Chimpanzee Tea Party.
All linked over at Vagabond Scholar.
Schlemizel
Maybe you should have mentioned God or Guns in here so the post would draw some comments.
HeartlandLiberal
Please, read the one on Bristol Palin. I am not sure I have read anything quite so totally insightful and excruciatingly, devastatingly funny and at the same time crushing to its subject matter than that post.
It goes straight to the heart of the sheer insanity that American politics and popular culture has descended into.
We have literally become a nation of total, frickin’, marching morons.
FormerSwingVoter
Wow… the “First Week of School” one is fucking insane. If I grew up today instead of when I did, I’d be branded a future felon.
Meadrus
Hello Bugler!
slag
Back in the day, I used to enjoy Zaius Nation in small doses. But I could never get into it. I wonder if that’s changed.
slag
Also…I miss Jon Swift!
Batocchio
Thanks for spreading the word, Sarah P&T, and for your fine submission.