The Best of The Rooster, 2021

The Business Line was good to The Rooster in 2021. Here are some of the most viral stories.

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Dec. 31, 2021 — A bad day to be a hater and/or loser who prayed on the downfall of The Rooster. Today marks three years of service in the face of a worldwide pandemic

This year, The Rooster was featured in the likes of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

2021 was the best year of The Rooster to date, with Urban Meyer and his anti-vax, pandemic-denying nurse of wife being the subjects of the most viral dispatches of the year. I would personally like to thank Meyer for imploding the way he did. Another man’s career disaster is another man’s financial windfall, as the old saying goes.

My favorite article of the year was, “Starcat Forever,” posted en memoriam of the beloved Starcat, who shuffled back to her home in the stars earlier this year. I still miss her deeply.

I also enjoyed writing about catching State Senator Niraj Antani and a lobbyist at High Beck Tavern and mocking the Westgate Watch as NIMBY losers who have nothing better to do than sitting around and watch surveillance cameras and trying to solve property crimes.

I’d also be remiss without highlighting special projects by Max Littman, who uncovered Senator Antani’s shady travel with an unregistered lobbyist and also asked why can’t Josh Mandel just say he’s Jewish?

So, without further ado…

The Top 50 Viral Rooster Dispatches of 2021

1. Dublin Dad Could Be Headed to Divorce Court

2. Shelley Meyer, the Worst Nurse in the World

3. Ken Stickney, the Nugget King

4. Ding Dong, the Dublin Dad is Dead

5. Requiem for the Dublin Dad

6. For Whom the Bucks Toll

7. When the Lights Go Out

8. Caught in 4k, Niraj Antani Ran for the Hills

9. Niraj Fly Me Out (by Max Littman)

10. Starcat Forever

11. Why Can’t Josh Mandel Say He’s Jewish? (by Max Littman)

12. Congratulations, You Qualify For An Ohio Medical Marijuana Card

13. The Urban Curse

14. Ryan Day Needs to Stop Being a Coward

15. All the Mean Things Wall Street Journal Subscribers Said About Me Yesterday

16. One Insane Man’s Plot to Save America

17. Koch Industries’ New-Found Crew Fan Wants You to Know She’d Never Travel More Than 50 Miles with Niraj Antani

18. Got Ur Self a Gun

19. Here’s a State Legislative Dipshit You’ve Never Heard Of

20. House of Sorrow

21. Hey, Rob Portman: Adios, Binch!!!!

22. Theocrats on the March

23. Watchers of Westgate

24. How to Use Charity to Launder Your Bad Name

25. That Time Emilia Sykes’ Family Sued an HBCU in Federal Court When She Lost a Beauty Pageant

26. Poison the Well

27. The Death March Trudges On

28. Worse Than We Thought

29. Get a Load of This Loser

30. Dublin Dad Down Bad, Explained

31. Damn Them to Hell

32. Joe Blystone is Your Typical Ohio Republican

33. On Ohio’s Problems

34. Boy, We Watched A Lot of Bad Browns Football

35. … The Democrats!

36. Here Comes the Appalachian Lore Hustler

37. The Short North Switch

38. How to Lose Your Job in an Email

39. Stolen, Water-Downed Ideas

40. To Hell with the Rose Bowl

41. Ortiz for Toledo

42. Attack of the Poors

43. The Return of the Breakfast Coach

44. Dark Forces at Work

45. The Columbus Zoo is a Cesspool of Sin

46. Tax the God Damn Churches

47. Danny O’Connor Chooses the Grift

48. Let’s All Laugh at Blundering Matt Borges (by Travis Irvine)

49. Your Rooster Sample Ballot

50. When It All Falls Down

Stay safe, everyone, and enjoy your New Year’s Eve celebration.

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