The wildfires were so hot last week they managed to burn "Stonehenges all around us," Craig Childs' long-lived piece about neolithic medicine wheels, out of what had seemed to be a permanent place in our Top 10. Our usual gang of columnists returned to form, with some fire, some nukes and some porn rounding out the most popular stuff. Special bonus: One comment from the blogs about each piece. Here are our ten best-read stories for the week ending October 26:

1) Straitjacket Bush by Rosa Brooks

"by far the roughest thing I've ever read about Bush in a mainstream publication"

2) One strike, Iran could be out by Niall Ferguson

"For about four years now, George Bush has been repeating the mantra, 'All options are on the table.' That seems to be the totality of his solution to the problem of Iran."

3) Candidate Hillary: the GOP's dream by Jonah Goldberg

"Jonah Goldberg watches GOP hopefuls trying to capitalize on Mrs. Clinton's negatives, and he believes they aren't going far enough."

4) The fire last time. And the time before that Cold Copy

"Oh my God!"

5) Where did Mexicans come from? by Gregory Rodriguez

"Mexicans, why not reinvent thyself?" [sic]

6) Our fraying alliance with Turkey by Graham E. Fuller

"Is Graham Fuller really out of his mind?"

7) I'm going to hell by Joel Stein

"Sometimes you can take the Bible just a bit too literally."

8) Mukasey's confirmation: a vote about torture by Jonathan Turley

"should be mandatory reading for the Senate Judiciary Committee and for all the other senators as well."

9) Smarter ways to handle fire by Daniel James Brown

"Then there's the issue of why San Diego and California at large resist embracing the occasional wildfire."

10) The Porn Age's unsexiness by Meghan Daum

"This observation is very similar to the one made by C.S. Lewis — that men and women have an "ever-increasing appetite for ever-decreasing pleasure." Ultimately, images and pleasure lose their "sexiness" when they are severed from the mystery of intimacy that God weaved into marriage."