Happy Birthday Bastiat's Corner

Well, I've made it one year.  My first post was November 1, 2011, and I have been annoying anyone who would listen ever since.  I have posted 57 times, and I'm sure I have more than twice as many typos.  I want everyone to know that I appreciate all of the readership and all of the comments I have received over the course of the year.  I would especially like to thank all of the people who have come once, thinking they were in for something interesting, stayed for 5 seconds and left.  I couldn't have done it without you. 

I would like to take just a moment to review some of my favorites from the year. 

• How Can you Defend Capitalism - That one is pretty self-explanatory and was a quick, fun write.  
• Helicopter Government - This was my first attempt to coin a term ... we're still waiting for it to take off.  Helicopter parents... paternalism...Helicopter Government.  Makes sense right?
• Hegemony Christmas - It wouldn't be the holidays without a little word play.  By the way, I capitalize "united States" that way for a reason.  Clever huh?
• Jamaica is a Harsh Mistress - My love affair with Robert Heinlein begins with the New Year.  That won't be the last we're hearing of him. 
• I published a two-part series on Keynesian Fallacies.  I don't think I have gotten to quite all of them yet, so stay tuned.  
• Change In Which We Can Believe - More uber clever word play and some awesome graphics. Spoiler Alert: It's gold!
• I observed that Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich would make an awesome, real-life Pinky and the Brain team. 
• I tried to point out the core fallacy of central planning and became the subject of a douchey rant on a philosophy blog. Then I responded, pretty solidly I might add. 
• I equated Warren Buffet to James Taggart. 
• I stood up for the humble moonshiner. 
• I laid into the Penny4NASA movement in a series of posts. 
• I wrote a critically acclaimed (by which I mean one guy really liked it) piece on Mandatory Blood Donation following an afternoon on the donation cot.   
• Heinlein showed up again, foreshadowing Cash for Clunkers in The Door Into Summer.
• I wrote an article on the how to argue with liberals.  I misspelled "tenet" in the title, and the liberals on reddit had a good time with that.  
• I tried to define capitalism my way - big mistake according to the comments. 
• I wrapped up the year with a review of the new Atlas Shrugged movie. 

So thanks again for stopping by.  Here's to another year.