2023 felt like it had more than 12 months, 52 weeks, and 365 days. The blistering heat of the record-breaking summer took its toll on your humble blogger. But it was an excellent annum for satire. At the risk of repetition: Trumpism is a disaster for the country and the world but it’s a gift for satirists.

As always, I struggled with cutting this year’s list down to size. For the third consecutive year, it’s a Top 40 list. The big change is the omission of Saturday Odds & Sods posts. They’re sui generis, which makes it harder to compare them with other posts. I’m making my life easier with this move. I think Lady Day would approve:

This year’s exercise in egomania is a mix of political, cultural, and downright silly posts. There are even several that were picked for their snappy titles. I’m not telling you which ones.

I hope y’all have as much fun perusing this list as I did compiling it.

Enough with the introductory blather.

I give you the Best Of Adrastos 2023:

1/2: The Football Paradox

1/17: The Talented Mr. Santos Pop Quiz

1/29: The Sunday Dozen: The Coen Brothers

2/7: Spank 2023: That’s Not How We Bowl

2/22: Secesh Marge

3/12: The Sunday Dozen: The Worst Best Picture Oscars

3/15: Kind Of A Drag

3/21: Peter Baker, Ben Barnes & The October Surprise Story

3/23: Letter From New Orleans: Teedy’s Not So Total Recall

3/28 Chester Arthur Weeps

4/11: Malaka Of The Week: Harlan Crow

4/25: Take A Chill Pill, Sam

5/12: The Good, The Bad and The Tater Tot

5/25: A Naif In The Garden Of Evil

5/30: Succession: Of Pain Sponges & Face Eggs

5/31: Through The FBI Looking Glass

6/12: Enough With The Trump-Capone Comparisons

6/13: Bye Bye Berlusconi & Boris

6/20: The Bobby Junior Bubble

6/20: America Is: One Time, One Night

7/21: Gym Jordan: Honorary Kennedy?

7/30: The Sunday Dozen: Elia Kazan

7/31: Why Do Republicans Hate The Military?

8/10: It Is A Good Day To Die: Robbie Robertson, R.I.P.

8/30: “I Ain’t Drunk, I’m Just Rudy”

9/17: More Unsolicited Advice From New York Magazine

9/18: Malaka Of The Week: Jann Wenner

9/25: “No One Wants To See That”

9/26: Bob Menendez: Garden State Grifter

10/11: Glad To Be An Atheist

10/17: Jeff Landry: Cajun DeSantis

10/18: Stand By Your Mann

11/9: The Trump Davidians

11/21: Irked In November

11/26: Experiment In Terror

11/30: Henry Kissinger’s Seven Circles Of Hell

12/4: Malaka Of The Week: Laurence Fox

12/14: Mike Johnson’s Family Values

12/15: The Cheese & Kraken Epistle Fizzle

12/18: That’s Why We Have a Vice President

That’s all for this year. The last word goes to one of my favorite 2023 targets, The Cheese DBA Kenneth Chesebro: