Things Fall Apart – My Favorite Posts of 2022
It can’t continue on this trajectory. Something has to give. Be prepared.
For most of the past several years, I have compiled a list of the 10 Most Viewed posts at Legal Insurrection based on page view stats:
- 10 most viewed Legal Insurrection posts in 2015
- Legal Insurrection’s 10 Most Viewed Posts of 2016
- Legal Insurrection’s 10 most-viewed posts of 2018
- Legal Insurrection’s 10 Most-Viewed Posts of 2019
- Legal Insurrection’s Most-Viewed Posts of 2020
In 2017, I instead did my favorite posts, because there were no real standout posts, In 2017 we had fun, fun, fun, and in 2021, because coverage of two trials (Rittenhouse and Chauvin) so dominated the rankings, Save The Country – My Top Ten Posts Of 2021.
So this year, I’m again doing my favorites because coverage of the Gibson’s Bakery appeal conclusion and payment so dominated the Top 10 most viewed. So here are my favorites of 2022, organized around a theme: Things Fall Apart.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I’ve grouped posts by topic, rather than a straight listicle.
Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College
Clearly the biggest blog event of the year. Six years in the making. We started coverage from when the protests happened over the shoplifting, through trial and appeals. And finally the Gibsons were paid, a story we were the first to report.
- Appeals Court Upholds Gibson’s Bakery Massive Verdict Against Oberlin College
- Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Oberlin College Appeal
- Oberlin College “has initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case”
- Finally, The Gibson’s Bakery Family Has Been Paid By Oberlin College
- Gibson’s Bakery Thanks Legal Insurrection And Its Readers
The Crew
Mike, Leslie, and Fuzzy celebrated 10-year anniversaries at Legal Insurrection. It seems like just yesterday those young kids joined us. And we reached a milestone with our 1 millionth reader comment.
- Mike LaChance – 10th Anniversary at Legal Insurrection
- Leslie Eastman – 10th Anniversary at Legal Insurrection
- Fuzzy Slippers 10th Anniversary at Legal Insurrection
- Legal Insurrection’s One-Millionth Reader Comment
In Memory Of
Those we lost along the way this year.
- In Memory of Meat Loaf, Who Helped My Generation See Paradise By The Dashboard Lights
- Our Beloved Nurse Ratched, Louise Fletcher, Passes Away At 88
Big. Breaking. News.
Two blockbusters, Abortion and Mar-a-Lago.
- Supreme Court Overrules Roe v. Wade
- Trump: FBI Raided Mar-a-Lago – “These Are Dark Times For Our Nation”
Liars and Cheats
They lie. They lie about lying. They lie about lying about lying.
- I’m Not Watching The Made-for-TV J6 Show Trial Narrated By Hoaxers, Liars, and Leakers
- Elon Musk Was Right About “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” BLM Narrative – “The Whole Thing Was A Fiction”
- Like Elizabeth Warren? Checking American Indian Box Based On “Family Lore” Slammed At SCOTUS Affirmative Action Argument
- Joe Biden delivers “one of the most menacing, bitter, angry and divisive speeches in modern US political history”
Real Anti-Racism
Perhaps the best (and worst) example of how control of language is dominated by the left. Ibram Kendi’s so-called “anti-racism” ideology that dominated campuses and increasingly corporations and government, calls for racial discrimination.
- Our SCOTUS Brief: “The Grand Judicial Experiment of Excusing Racial Discrimination in University Admissions … Has Failed”
- Affirmative Action: My Argument Against Racial Preferences Prevails at Cornell Political Union Debate
- Providence (RI) Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program Only Open To Non-Whites Challenged By Legal Insurrection Foundation
Things Fall Apart
It can’t continue on this trajectory. Something has to give. Be prepared.
- Mass Formation Psychosis. The Madness of Crowds. And The End Of Progressive America.
- “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy”
- When Fascism Comes To America, It Will Look Like Justin Trudeau’s Canada
- “Where I’ve come out pretty clearly on higher education is that it cannot be reformed from within”
- “The Preppers Were Right All Along”
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Comments
First resolution to act on: Restock bottled water and replace the filters for the kitchen and fridge. Restock canned goods, lots of them. Buy another manual can opener.
For manual can openers, I would suggest a p-38 or a p-72.
Or any other military-style can opener. They are small but VERY practical.
How does one use a P-38 to open cans? Stand in just the right position in front of one of the spinning propellers?
No, no the hand-carried P-38s. You aim to bisect the flat top with the projectile, and voila — open can,
My favorite stories always have a teaser to entice the readers such as a bikini-clad babe picture even though the story has nothing to do with bikini babes. Of course, those “news” stories are found in media away from Legal Insurrection.
The check that Oberlin had to write to Gibson’s had to be one of the most gratifying I have ever seen. And it wasn’t even made out to me.
Agreed. Hope there are many more Oberlin like victories in the coming New Year
Report: AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and others are slashing their TSMC orders, which could reduce the contract manufacturer’s Q1 2023 sales by an estimated 15% QoQ
.. tell me again about the “Chip Shortage”
When Intel sneezes, Portland catches a cold.
The Gibson win was probably the high light of the year.
Well that and I discovered the Critical Drinker which has made the wasteland of woke entertainment bearable.