It's been a hell of a year around here: In 2008 I was fired by CNN and began an entirely new career, watched traffic on this site go through the roof, released my memoir, became a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and, most memorably, welcomed a brand new addition to the life I share with my wife Jayne -- our daughter, Inara. I've chronicled all of these things and more here -- including cranking out piece after piece on the most fascinating, unpredictable and ultimately seismic election season of my lifetime -- which makes it tough to narrow down the 1,400 or so posts of the last 12 months into a small group that I think best represents what Deus Ex Malcontent has been about this past year. In the end, I chose the columns that generated the most reaction -- positive, negative or otherwise -- and asked a couple of readers whose opinions I value to help me come up with a list of 28 of the "best" posts of 2008 and put them in order (leaving out Dead Star Twilight excerpts and Inara's birth announcement and photos, for obvious reasons). I'm happy with the end result. Hopefully, you will be too. Thanks for allowing me to be so proud of the work I've put into this site; the people who've read and supported DXM over the past year are valued in ways I can't fully put into words.
Here now, the Top 28 Posts of 2008.
28. Surrender, Integrity/4.22.08
27. Is Barack Obama Gonna Have to Choke a Bitch?/1.7.08
26. Second Thug Life/5.6.08
25. Insolent Jest/10.30.08
24. Policing Themselves to Death/8.8.08
23. A Modest Proposal/5.16.08
22. Droll Models/7.11.08
21. All Fall Down/8.10.08
20. Let No One Put Asunder/12.21.08
19. Choose Wisely/9.4.08
18. Shade of Gray/12.9.08
17. Miles to Go/12.4.08
16. The World I Knew/5.25.08
15. You Name It/2.21.08
14. Why So Serious?/4.25.08
13. An Equal and Opposite Reaction/8.15.08
12. Not Another Oprah Column/2.28.08
11. Rich Lowry: The William F. Buckley of Fuck Talk/10.4.08
10. Wide Awake in America/11.5.08
9. An Open Letter to the American Media/12.22.08
8. Sweet Dreams/1.28.08
7. Kids Incorporated/4.24.08
6. Both Ends Against the Middle/9.11.08
5. Be Wary, Be Wary, the 10th of February (from the Huffington Post)/2.1.08
4. The Meta-Metamorphosis of Sarah Palin/10.24.08
3. The Outsider/6.9.08
2. The Speed of Lies/8.28.08
1. Say What You Will (Requiem for a TV News Career)/2.18.08
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