Last Week's Top 5 Hits at Reason.com

The top five most popular columns that ran at Reason.com between August 3 and August 7 are:

The Artist Formerly Known as Dissident: Artists have a duty to dissent—even against Obama, by Patrick Courrielche (8/7)

Impossible Promises: Obama says his health care plan will cut costs and increase patient choice. It won't. by John Stossel (8/6)

Confessions of a Cash for Clunkers Scammer: One man's quest to get Obama to pay for his Nissan Versa, by Katherine Mangu-Ward (8/5)

FCC to Apple: iPhone? How about MyPhone!: The Federal Communication Commission's latest overreach may be a sign of things to come, by Peter Suderman (8/7)

They Like Us. They Sort of Like Us: With Obama in the White House, America is better liked around the world. So what? by Michael C. Moynihan (8/4)

Comments

[Anonymous]

When I first saw the Obama Joker poster on my block in April I tried to read the website featured in the upper right-hand corner, but it was too pixilated to decipher. Is anonymity part of the artist's message?

Could it be that somebody took it upon themselves to distribute an image they found online in low resolution, instead of getting a grant for the costs of exposition and encouraging postmodernist critique? That seems most likely to me, but then I'm not in the least "excited for their accomplishment and sense of pride for participating in Obama's historic presidential campaign", either, so whatever.

[Anonymous]

So rather than the scorn that so often greets Americans in Western Europe (and trust me, it is ubiquitous), our interlocutors will now praise our good sense in choosing Barack Obama, while paying less attention to our supposedly debased, ignorant white culture.

T,FTFY. HTH. PTTP.