Last Week's Top 5 Hit & Run Posts

Here's what you were reading last week at Hit & Run:

California Voters Will Be Asked to Legalize Pot, by Jacob Sullum (1/28)

Obama Decries Divisive Rhetoric, Says Healing Can Happen if Opponents Stop Being Such Effing D-bags, by Nick Gillespie (1/29)

Political Ad of the Year? by Jesse Walker (1/30)

Obama's Empty Cost-Containment Rhetoric: Should We Call Him Out on It? by Nick Gillespie (1/26)

New Yorker's (and Jimmy Carter's) Hendrik Hertzberg on Lord Obama's "Nominally Respectable" Opponents, by Nick Gillespie (1/25)

Comments

[The Gobbler]

I simply refuse to accept this.

[Barack Obama]

There are those who say, "I simply refuse to accept this."

[I ? trolls]

I refuse to refuse to accept this

[The Gobbler]

Make light of this if you want to, Barack Obama and I ? trolls, but Suderman hasn't made the top 5 in so long that there simply MUST be a code error (or deliberate mischief?) in the computer modeling. We need to have a look at that code.

[Barack Obama]

Let me be clear.

This is exactly what I am saying.

[East Anglia Research Assistant]

I can generate some models and data sets to hide Suderman's decline.

[I ? trolls]

He wears a hat in his picture. On that grounds, he never deserves to win anything. He needs to rock his bald head. In fact, that's the only thing I like about Radley Balko

[Spoonman]

What the hell's the deal with Boeing advertising its tankers online? Trying to get people to pressure Congress to use its tankers instead of Northrup's?

[The Gobbler]

You don't think oil industry tanker buyers read Reason?

[Spoonman]

I assume only the Air Force uses airborne tankers.

[The Gobbler]

Thanks for highlighting my stupidity.

[BakedPenguin]

Wow. I had Sullum at 7-1 for the top spot, and Nick at 6-1 for most posts in the top five.

All pointless, of course, since I can't accept bets until the morons on Congress repeal their Internet gambling law. But since I can't bet on the Superbowl, here are this weeks' odds:

Odds for next week - Top spot:
Balko: 9-5
Welch: 5-1
Gillespie: 5-1
Sullum: 6-1
Walker: 6-1
Bailey: 7-1
Cavanaugh: 7-1
Doherty: 8-1
Mangu-Ward: 10-1
Root: 12-1
Field: 20-1

Most posts in top five (ties decided by order):
Balko: 8-5
Welch: 5-1
Cavanaugh: 6-1
Walker: 6-1
Sullum: 6-1
Gillespie: 7-1
Bailey: 7-1
Mangu-Ward: 8-1
Doherty: 8-1
Root: 15-1
Field: 20-1