Last Week's Top 5 Hits at Reason.com

Here are the five most popular Reason.com columns from last week:

Will Everyone Please Stop Freaking Out Over Ayn Rand?!? by Peter Bagge (11/10)

The Folly of Unilateral Disarmament: At Fort Hood "more guns" assuredly were "the solution to gun violence," by Jacob Sullum (11/11)

The U.S. House of Presumptuous Meddlers: The folly of health care "reform," by John Stossel (11/12)

Glenn Beck's Experimental Melodrama: The Fox News star terrifies America with his realistic news theater, by Greg Beato (11/12)

She's Back! Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans radical enough for capitalism? by Brian Doherty (11/9)

Comments

[brotherben]

I finally broke down and picked up an Ayn Rand book over the weekend. I guess I'll see what the fuss is all about.

It's about people who leech off of society's most productive members.

[brotherben]

May karma allow you to learn empathy.

I'll see your pity card and raise you responsible productivity.

[Stephen Hawking]

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

- Stephen Hawking

[Old Mexican]

Glenn Beck's Experimental Melodrama: The Fox News star terrifies [sic] America with his realistic news theater [uber sic], by Greg Beato

Yeah, I was foolish enough to read that one . . . Now, I am nothing more than a statistic in Reason's Top Hit lists, not even receiving a lousy T-Shirt for it. Darn.