Jon Swift has done the definitive yearly round-up of "best o' the blogs," having had the inspired idea of letting the bloggers decide what their own best and most representative post for the year would be. We here at BN-Politics revere the great and modest satirist, and are therefore modestly thrilled to have been included. Of course, Jon Swift IS Jon Swift, so you'll want to read the Swiftian commentary. Here's a sample to whet your appetite (it's the very first one).
Agitprop
"Republican Sex Scandal (U.K. Update)"
Blogenfreude explains Republican sex scandals to readers in the U.K., where they don't have any sex scandals at all, or even very much sex, as far as I know.
Read more here. We have included below, in the fullness of our gratitude, a humble tribute to the blogosphere's most reasonable sensible conservative:
This portrait is called "Jon Swift receiving the thanks of the blogosphere." The "blogosphere" is symbolized by the buxom but rather homely woman wearing the crown. The two cherubs preparing to crown him with bays symbolize the blogs PoliGazette and Captain's Quarters which together epitomize the concept "Sensible Conservatism."
The motto for the picture (and the title for this blogpost) is translated from Horace: "Exegi monumentum aere perennius" ("I have made a monument more lasting than brass.")
Cf. Wikimedia Commons.
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