The Top 10 Most-Read Stories at Reason.com in 2009
Here's a list of the stories at Reason.com that pulled the most page views during 2009.
1. The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past 40 Years: Mr. Luce's mag does satanism, porn, crack, Pokemon, and more! Radley Balko & Jeff Winkler | June 10, 2009
2. In Defense of Extreme Pornography: Why Janet Romano and Rob Zicari have no business being in federal prison. Greg Beato | October 27, 2009
3. A Forensics Charlatan Gets Caught in the Act: Video from a defense attorney's sting exposes Mississippi bite-mark "expert" Michael West. Radley Balko | May 15, 2009
4. Two Pints of Non-Alcoholic Lager and a Packet of Fat-Free Crisps: How pointless regulations are ruining British pub life Josie Appleton | June 1, 2009
5. The Next Catastrophe: Think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a politicized financial disaster? Just wait until pension funds implode. Jon Entine from the February 2009 issue
6. Typing Errors: The standard typewriter keyboard is Exhibit A in the hottest new case against markets. But the evidence has been cooked. Stan Liebowitz & Stephen E. Margolis from the June 1996 issue
7. What Michael Phelps Should Have Said: Smoking pot shouldn't be a crime. Or the public's business. Radley Balko | February 2, 2009
8. Are You a Terrorist?: Take Reason's short quiz for answers, dammit! Nick Gillespie | April 16, 2009
9. Obama's Lies Matter, Too: The president pushes back against health care misinformation, then spreads a bunch of his own. Matt Welch | September 10, 2009
10. Disturbing the Peace: On the inalienable right to "excessively noisy sex." Brendan O'Neill from the August/September 2009 issue
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No monkey cartoon or snowball fight stories? Suspicious.
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The Dvorak keyboard is fucking better. Article number 6 needs to die
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QWERTY rules!
I'd use a rusty Caligraph before one of those faggot Dvoraks.
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Link to non-Dvorak-authored scientific article proving this claim?
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I answered all the questions on the Are You A Terrorist Quiz right. I don't agree with Ron Paul. I think all private ownership of weapons should be banned. I have no clue what a coiled snake would even look like, why am I still considered a terrorist? Wait! wait! Shouldn't those libertarians be sent to the gulag before me?
I believe in you establishment. I want to work for you. I'll snitch on anybody! My dad once said the NYT was full of shit. No, please, no. I'm too pretty for the gulag. -
How pointless regulations ruined British pub life morelike
they are feckin shite nowerdays
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Balko's fluff piece on Time is #1, but his Pulitzer level reporting on the Misssissippi forensic & justice systems is only #3?
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Hell, how does a story about a news magazine well past its prime get more readers than a story about porn?
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WHAT??? NO SUDERMAN???
