Just catching up on some housekeeping business with this post today.
After the week we had here at The Garlic, we are late with our annual offering, our lazy attempt at a "year-in-review" kind of thing ... Rather than toil for days, piecing together a cleverly-laid-out narrative, tying in all the major (and minor) happenings, with a pithy edge, and esoteric cultural references, we throw on the leisure suit and sneakers via, what else, a list of links!
Monitored by the esteemed firm of Dewey, Cheethem and Howe, we cull from our site traffic, RSS Feeder traffic, links, rumors, WOM, random phone calls and emails, and a guy named "Randy" from Baltimore, to come up with the most popular offerings on The Garlic this past year.
So, have at it, and if you see something you like, spread it around ...
Top Most Read/Popular Garlic Posts of 2007
Honorable Mentions
(Or, an official-sounding way to squeeze in three additional posts)
Breaking News! Hagel Speech Causes Havoc; Payless Shoes Flooded With Job Seekers, Resumes; Applicants Looking For " The Safe Jobs Senator Hagel Talked About"; Tancredo Offers Threats
Top Ten Cloves: Possible Problems With Suing God
Wag The FEMA
10: "What If Spartacus Had To Account For 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols ..."
9: Bill O'Reilly Exclusive! Black People Go To Restaurants ... And They Eat!
8: Breaking News! Another Bombshell - Craig To Enter Rehab; Cites Suffering From 'Restroom Leg Syndrome'
7: Where's Ernest Borgnine when you need him?
6: "They will have flies walking across their eyeballs"
5: Libby Trial Update - The Scooter and Cheney Show Theme Song
4: Vatican Discounts "Bonfire Pope"; Says Flames "Not Hunched Over Enough"; Late Pontiff's Bend Was Measured "Religiously"; Never Used Contingency "Roller Skate Gloves"
3: Jeff Gannon Speaks! ... To The Garlic!
2: The Condoleezza Rice Ballroom Dancing & Charm School; Or: Shopping For A Legacy on Cyber Monday
(Much to our pleasant surprise, the Condi piece got picked up by Reuters)
1: Swedish Film Icon Ingmar Bergman Dead at 89 ; Police Depressed, Working Through Emptiness, Not Ruling Out Foul Play
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Top Most Read/Popular Garlic Posts of 2007
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Where's Ernest Borgnine when you need him?
"You! Preacher! Murderer! I started to believe in your promises, that we had a chance. What chance?"
This is like the Poseidon Adventure, but only the ship stays afloat and it's the passengers who have sunk.
Det. Lt. Mike Rogo (Ernest Borgnine)
The Independent's Johann Harri writes about taking a National Review cruise."The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth – and as for Guantanamo Bay, it's practically a holiday camp... The annual cruise organised by the 'National Review', mouthpiece of right-wing America, is a parallel universe populated by straight-talking, gun-toting, God-fearing Republicans."
If this didn't have some stark implications on our national politics, and the direction of the country, it would be outright slapstick.
As it is, it is very, very humorous
Ship of fools: Johann Harri sets sail with America's swashbuckling neocons
Bonus Links
Larisa Alexandrovna: Send Liberals to "Gas Chambers."... Astonishing Right-Wing Extremism!
Richard Silverstein: Lib Journalist Crashes National Review Cruise
Rachel Sklar: TNR Sails The Seas With Eric Alterman The National Review
