Jon Swift (aka Al Weisel), a brilliant blogger and satirist, and sometime contributor to Shakesville, used to wrap up each year by asking as many bloggers as he could contact to submit their best posts of the year for a massive roundup of awesome writing.
Weisel died in 2010, and, in his honor, Batocchio of Vagabond Scholar has continued to compile an annual Jon Swift Memorial Roundup.
Here is 2017's, and, as always, there's lots of good stuff there.
The piece I submitted this year is "I Write Letters," otherwise known as "Hillary Clinton doesn't owe you a goddamned thing," in which I argued, in response to people who were demanding Hillary Clinton "do something" to save us, that campaigning for 18 grueling months was doing something — the most important thing she ever could have done.
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