It’s time for my annual exercise in egomania. It was a tough year for me, but I’ve gone over that in sufficient detail already. That’s why the first post detailing my ordeal did not make the cut. Who needs to be reminded of that? Not me but y’all might so here’s the link to Diary Of A Human Cushion.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get down to it. For the fourth consecutive year, it’s a top 40 list but it was still hard to pare down. I have omitted Saturday Odds & Sods and Irksome Things posts from consideration as they’re sui generis. I’m not sure who sui is, so sue me.

Not only was 2024 a tough year for me personally, it was a bad year for the country and the world. One of the down sides of being a satirist is that bad news is good for satire, and we had a boatload of bad news in 2024. Do I need to belabor that point? I thought not.

One of the posts below Lowbrow Humor, Wicked Satire was my submission to the annual Jon Swift Roundup. Thanks to Batocchio for keeping that satirical tradition alive. Does that make him a 21st Century Tevye? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Enough with the introductory blather, I give you The Best Of Adrastos 2024.

1/8: Rip Van Winkle On The Dipshit Insurrection

1/14: Suspense (1946)

1/18: Malaka Of The Week: Bill Ackman

1/25: Doing The Right Thing For The Wrong Reasons

2/11: Carnival Notes: Abbott and Costello Go To Mars

2/22: James Buchanan Abides

3/7: On Our Own Now

3/12: Dictator Love

3/13: Lowbrow Humor, Wicked Satire

3/28: Joe Lieberman: Icky, Not Mavericky

4/8: I Am An Animal

4/9: Jeffing Unbelievable

4/17: Bob Menendez: Jersey Cad

4/22: MAGA Yippie

5/2: Born To Kill

5/9: The Gestapo Speech

5/16: Trump/Durst: Who’s The Worst

5/30: Rishi Sunak Is All Wet

6/4: Justice Alito Is A Trumper

6/13: Malaka Of The Week: Martha-Ann Alito

6/20: Willie Mays, R.I.P.

6/20: The Clownfish Commandments

7/2: Trump Found His Roy Cohn

7/16: Lesson Learned

7/22: Thanks For Everything, Joe

7/29: The JD Vance Pop Quiz

8/6: Bobby Junior: Ich Bin Ein Bear-leaver

8/27: Every Picture Tells A Story

9/11: Philadelphia Beatdown

9/22: Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

10/9: The Cease & Desist Top Ten List

10/14: On Bedwetting

10/23: Don’t Know Much About History

10/28: Blame It On Mitch

11/14: One Hand Doesn’t Wash The Other

11/18: Here Comes President Troll Again

11/21: Horseshoe People

12/5: Revenge Is Stupid

12/9: The Pete Hegseth Top Ten List

12/17: It Happened In New Jersey

Last year, a reader asked why there was no musical last word for this annual post. Good question. Here’s my answer: The last word goes to Frank Sinatra and Count Basie.