I just took a look back at my numbers for 2019. Here are the most popular posts during that calendar year, two of which are new, eight of which are older:
- Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics
- He-Man Opening Monologue
- The Bob Rubin Trade
- The best hard science fiction he’d read in decades is a techno-thriller (new)
- The Father of Social-Science
- Fast Friends Protocol
- The Pros and Cons of Empires
- They are unable to decipher compound sentences (new)
- Summary of the Fate of Empires
- Observations from Actual Shootings
Here are the most popular posts actually from 2019 and not from an earlier year:
- The best hard science fiction he’d read in decades is a techno-thriller
- They are unable to decipher compound sentences
- A concerned citizen is largely helpless
- We should drop arithmetic
- One subgroup of scholars did manage to see more of what was coming
- The great vice of the Greeks was extrapolation
- The barbarian invaders had one thing the civilized Incas did not
- The whole point is sacrifice
- The tattoo has a profound meaning
- Superior recon trumps hypersonic missiles
Again, I’m not sure what to conclude.
Also, I should thank some of my top referrers: Z Man, Mapping The Dark Enlightenment, and Borepatch.
Happy new year!
My top user comment of 2019 was by X-Ray:
“I did once get drunk with a bunch of ROK Marines at the III MAF compound in Danang. We ended up ‘judoing’ concrete blocks for fun.”
And a close second was one by Graham:
“Cold Fusion can never work unless they put the milk in the reactor last.”
Thanks, Slovenian Guest!
I think there had just been a separate exchange on tea. Otherwise can’t imagine what put that thought in my head…
Isegoria,
I have found the last couple of years on this site rich in interest, but your back catalogue by now is so full of good stuff in such quantity I guess I’m not surprised it attracts a lot of attention.
The blessing and curse of internet, as life, longevity.