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Most popular posts of 2010
Some other blogs seem to have a "most popular posts of the year" entry, so I thought I'd try it out. Certainly I thought it might reveal which stuff I write is the most popular. The most popular posts seem to be quite diverse in the kinds of content they involve, which is a good thing really.

When choosing the most popular posts of 2010 I was sensible enough to discount comments I made myself.

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5th June 2010 - Pointless Waffle: Conor Cunningham Has A New Book

25th November 2010 - Four Reviews of Movies from 2010

8th September 2010 - Catching Up With Reviews

27th December 2010 - Best Movies - Part 1 of 3 - The Best of 2010

22nd June 2010 - Movie Reviews (Plus A Few TV)

2nd January 2010 - TV Review: Doctor Who Finale - Good Riddance RTD

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22nd August 2010 - Carpenter/Cronenberg Part 1 of 3 - Countdown To Their Worst Movies

3rd September 2010 - Stephen Hawking Makes An Interesting Announcement. Richard Dawkins Has A Boring Debate.

3rd December 2010 - Not-So-Fantastic Mr. Fox

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23rd April 2010 - Movie Reviews - Lots! (+ General Opinion on 2009/2008 Movies)

31st August 2010 - "Samus has more daddy issues than Montana Fishburne"

6th February 2010 - Avatar in 3D - Review


Top ten most popular posts for 2010

7th = - 31st January 2010 - Twilight Review - Come on, you know you want to read it.... - 11 comments
A nice long snarky review of a movie so many people love to hate. Hehe. (My 2/5 score tends to mean that the movie is so awful that it's no longer enjoyable anymore, however this movie was such a mix of horrendous awfulness and absolutely hilariously entertaining moments that this score is more of a balance between those two. The vampire baseball scene is actually pretty good and who can entirely hate a movie where a vampire faces off some hooligans - not with his sharp teeth or vampire powers - but with a Volvo!)

7th = - 6th June 2010 - Israeli government office links to video mocking flotilla (OMG WTF is this?) - 11 comments
Article regarding the hot topic of Israel. Of course the main issue raised is not really whether the boarding of the flotilla was acceptable or not, but rather the horrific level of insensitivity shown by a government office in Israel when they know full well that the media is taking a keen interest.

7th = - 5th October - Fear And Horror - Movie Musings... - 11 comments
I express my hatred for the whistle-and-bang effect in horror movies and wonder whether a horror movie should really be judged by how scary it is....

7th = - 20th November 2010 - Movie Reviews! - 11 comments
Most comments are on Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds". Oddly there's no sign of fabfunk  while I'm bashing his movie of the year.

4th = - 15th February 2010  - Feminism Fail on "WTF Sexism" - 12 comments
Locked. I discuss the rather trollish mansplaining on the LJ sexism community.

4th = - 7th March 2010  - Movie Reviews - A Lot Of Them - 12 comments
It would be wrong to suggest that this meant I needed more posts with absolutely massive numbers of reviews. Most comments are on just two of the films: "Black Hawk Down" and "Silent Running".

4th = - 24th August 2010 - If They Aren't Racists, Why Are They Shouting At A Random Black Bystander? - 12 comments
Discussion of right wing nutcases. Always good. :)

3rd - 15th May 2010 -  "Evil Liberal Media Is Attacking Christians" Says Atheist Author - 14 comments
Including comments from Chris Rodda. I consider the possible explanations for S.E. Cupp's odd position from outright lying to self-deception to massive hypocrisy.

2nd - 9th May 2010 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Book - FAIL! - 20 comments
A few short sharp snarky comments on Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new book.

1st - 8th February 2010 - Randomly Found This... - 98 comments
By far the larget number of comments. I guess the secret to a high comment level is controversy. I found someone saying something rather interesting about the reasoning used to justify circumcision and unsurprisingly this was a bit of a touchy subject. (The topic which worried me the most, mind you, was the revelation that some parents pierce the ears of toddlers. I mean what the hell is that about, eh?)

Most popular posts prior to 2010
I did this list first and it was a while before I considered discounting comments I made myself. Whoops. Anyway, these appear to be the most popular entries on my blog prior to 2010. Check it out!

30th September  - The whole Polanski thing.... - 6 comments
Where most of the biggest names in Hollywood reveal themselves to be (or are bulled into being) apologists for rape. (Apart from Luc Besson it seems - though that link also claims that the movie "Taken" somehow "shed light on the the sex slave trade in Europe (and how it can impact us here)". Er yeah right whatever.)

2nd October 2009 - Why worry about social justice when in heaven everything is fine? - 6 comments
Ranty post where I over-analyse tripe by nutcase Glenn Beck.

8th December 2009 - Muslims Discriminate Against Other Muslims - Protest The Building Of A Mosque For Ahmadis - 6 comments
Long before the protests against the "Mosque" in New York I was already p***ed off with protests against actual mosques by British fundies (most notably Stephen "birdshit" Green - lol, I'd completely forgotten that he says "I feel a bit persecuted"). My annoyance was compounded by the news that British Muslims had decided to play a large part in protests against the building of a Mosque for the wrong kinds of Muslims. *facepalm* Admittedly nearly all comments are along the lines of "well what do you expect" and after that, there's not much else to say. Really sad piece of news that.

26th September 2009 - "Crank 2" and "FAQ About Time Travel" + Random Stuff - 7 comments
One of my earliest posts reviewing movies along with some links to favourite Filmdrunk posts. Disliking "Crank 2" seemed to cause more controversy than really enjoying "FAQ About Time Travel".

22nd November 2009 - Criticism Of The BHA Leads To Colossal Fail - 7 comments
Fundies try to criticise a BHA campaign and end up looking silly. No surprise there. The main source of amusement comes from The Times religion correspondent, Ruth Gledhill. Unfortunately, due to The Times' decision to make their website require a subscription, I haven't been able to keep up with her fail since then.

14th December 2009 - Writing Women Characters - 7 comments
What with my blog only being a small little thing, this relatively largely posts come from just two visitors to the blog. The post was about the idea that writing characters which could just as easily be women or men was a good start when writing female characters (though admittedly not ideal) and it was inspired by some comments from Sigourney Weaver.

15th September 2009 - Bruce Campbell Rocks! - 8 comments
I express my adoration for the big chinned b-movie superstar, Bruce Campbell. I don't think that fourth Spider-Man is even happening now, is it? Presumably this means Sam Raimi will be working on something else (horror comedy? oh-please-oh-please-oh-please!)

25th June 2007 - Problems With Humanism - 9 comments
I first consider the problems with right wing bigots in the mostly liberal Humanism club. It's still a tough issue for me.

11th December 2008 - A very tiring birthday. - 9 comments
Locked post. I wrote some personal stuff. People seemed interested.

5th August 2009 - Ah, that explains everything! - (Nutcases link to my video on youtube.) - 9 comments
Video here. In a post about Pat Condell (see below) I posted a video of Stephen Green, showing how Condell's fears of a Muslim takeover have more in common with Christian Fundamentalists. Using some of the options on youtube I discovered my video had been crossposted on some VERY dodgy right-wing Islamophobic websites. Meanwhile the video on youtube had just one vote rating it as worth just one out of five stars. No surprises there.

3rd September 2009 - Blog and News Roundup! Part 2 - 9 comments
Quite a few more comments than for part 1 though admittedly there's some good stuff there. The Harrison Ford video alone is a classic.

24th September 2009 - SHOCK! Dollhouse problems were Joss' fault, not Fox's. - 9 comments
This seems to contradict what everyone is saying elsewhere, but it's hard to re-interpret Whedon's words to mean anything else. Apparently Whedon was the one who overdid the sexy stuff and was pressured to stop doing that by Fox.

4th October 2009 - Maybe I was wrong about Pat Condell.... - 9 comments
Pat Condell resorts to paranoid delusions when dealing with Christianity rather than Islam for a change.

The top ten most popular posts prior to 2010 (with a lot of posts in joint last place)

10th = - 24th June 2007 - Radical Theology and Atheism (a long essay) - 10 comments
My earliest post. An article based on my Theology Masters studies outlining my views on the thin line between doubt and faith. Oddly several comments came from someone who, amongst other things, expressed hope that the Republicans would be voted out at the coming election. He later went a bit nuts and decided that Obama was going to plunge the US into a communist nightmare. Bizarre....

10th = - 30th June - Top 18 horror movies (from someone who doesn't like horror) - 10 comments
Before rhoda_rants revealed her preference not to be seriously disturbed by horror movies, I just generally thought that you weren't a real horror fan unless you liked "whistle-and-bang" slasher movies. In this post though, I don't simply name horror movies I like. I also name movies that aren't really horror, but nevertheless make the audience uncomfortable.

BTW I'm still waiting for a list of the best Hitchcock movies. If anyone wants to make some recommendations, that'd be really cool! :)

10th = - 16th September 2009 - Interesting Religious Discussion (because you've been so patient) - 10 comments
Two obscure religion stories, with responses from me. Abortion issues and religious diversity issues, so right up my alley.

10th = - 11th October 2009 - Atheist Fail just LOVE me these days... - 10 comments
I express confusion at the sudden change in opinion of me by Atheist Fail after I pointed out Pat Condell's Islamophobia. Most links to Atheist Fail posts will not work anymore since Vox Diabolica was discovered to be a sockpuppet troll.

10th = - 7th December 2009 - School Inspector Supports Intelligent Design. *Groan!* - 10 comments
Post about Intelligent Design, but made especially worthy of concern because the article I refer to was printed in The Guardian. I hold them to higher standards and it was annoying to see them pedalling this shite. Lots of other people concerned about this too, it seems.

10th = - 10th December 2009 - John Milbank: "Feminism Undermines The Family. We Need A New Feminism Which Respects Men." *Groan* - 10 comments
Having been told that Milbank was an important theologian and seeing him welcomed into Nottingham Uni, I found the ideas he expressed were a little puzzling. The guy was clearly well-read, but there was something distinctly off about his work. Since he's started writing for popular news outlets, he's needed to make his views rather clearer and more relevant to real life issues or politics. This was the first clear sign that John Milbank has undeniably dodgy views. His insistence that feminism discriminates against men is the same chauvinist BS anyone with any decent background on the topic should know to avoid.

The first clear sign that I'd been right to think Radical Orthdoxy was dodgy (and not just too stupid to understand it) was this description of "transcendence" by Catherine Pickstock from Milbank's Radical Orthodoxy movement.

9th - 5th December 2009 - Bill Donohue is not happy with PETA (NSFW - under cut) - 11 comments
I had thought there were 12 comments on this one, but one of them turns out to have been spam. Ahhhh, nothing like a good post about bigoted "Catholicism-is-under-attack" nutcase Billy Donohue getting p***ed off. However, what made this especially funny was that while Ole' Donny is crying "blasphemy", he completely fails to mention the more obvious issue (common to PETA adverts) of objectifying women.

6th = - 1st July 2009 - It's Official. Pat Condell is a racist. - 12 comments
I'm quite proud to have called Condell out on this before his bigotry became common knowledge. While I wasn't keen on Condell's videos at the start, it became rather worrying when people started defending him. This was my first post criticising Condell. It wasn't until later when he became one of the first people to start foaming at the mouth about the new "mosque at ground zero" that dismissing Condell became more widespread amongst ordinary online atheists.

6th = - 2nd August 2009 - Multiculturalism VS Pat Condell - 12 comments
As much as I'm pround of noticing Condell's bigotry early, it seems that many people had written to him or about him. Cue a video where he whines about how unfair it is to be accurately characterised as a right-wing bigot when you think you are left-wing. One of the comments actually came from someone promoting Islamic schools. While I'm not against Islamic schools (any more than any other faith schools), they had a rather more segregated idea of society than I'd find comfortable.

6th = - 11th September 2009 - One of those MEME things... - 12 comments
This is sort of cheating since it relied on people taking guesses in the comments. A number of other people did this meme though and it was good fun.

5th - 13th September 2009 - Let's get this straight - Tim Burton sucks! - 13 comments
One of the posts attracting the highest number of posts was this entry where I vented my dissatisfaction with the movies of director Tim Burton, noting in particular his focus on style over substance and his over-use of cheesy sentimentally.

4th - 4th April 2009 - 28th October 2009 - Animal Rights and Vermin - 14 comments
Nothing quite like a post on animal rights to provoke a discussion.

2nd = - 4th April 2009 - 18th November 2009 - How To Argue With Morons 101 - 15 comments
Locked post. A friend provides some awesome wisdom and I decide to share it. :)

2nd = - 4th April 2009 - 26th November 2009 - Movies I've Been Watching - 15 comments
Some early reviews cause a large number of comments, giving me the confidence to make it a more regular occurrence.

1st - 4th April 2009 - Apologetics for kids. I have mixed feelings. - 23 comments
Locked, but one of my longer posts. This time I discussed child indoctrination.