Top 10: Ringing out '07 with drugs, dogs and coyotes

Here's what you were reading in the last full week of 2007. Our American Values series finally scored, as did our holiday Big Fix feature. The violent deaths of Timothy Johnson and Benazir Bhutto drew attention, but as always, Jesus, dogs and Jonah Goldberg were tops with readers.

1. The cancer drug by Diana Wagman
2. A life and death, raw by commenters
3. Aunt Benazir’s false promises by Fatima Bhutto
4. The common defense by the editorial board
5. Tracking the mild coyote by Meghan Daum
6. A little bit of heaven on Earth by Joel Stein
7. It’s a campaign, not a crusade by Charlotte Allen
8. Domestic tranquillity by the editorial board
9. Politics? We’ll take good cheer by Jonah Goldberg
10. Collar the dogs by Will Beall

Posted by Tim Cavanaugh on December 31, 2007 in Animals , California , Campaign 2008 , Doubletalk , Editorials , Flame Wars , Found Objects , Health Care , OpEds , Our Columnists , Politicians , Quotables , Top 10 | Permalink

Comments

Like those who have been following Pakistani politics over the last year (not just since Benazir's death, but going back to Judge Choudry's "Tour Across Pakistan" to protest Musharref's policies, and drawing the opposition protests to him which in turn led to the violence between pro and anti-Musharref supporters, I was very interested to read Fatima's comments about her aunt Benazir. She believes along with much of her family that Benazir was complicit in her father's/ BB's brother's murder which took place right in front of her house -- but now, with BB herself being assassinated in plain sight of security and the resulting days of violence in Karachi which the military was unable to control, we and I think she must all rethink her claim. Yes, BB and her husband "Mr. 10%" are corrupt, but there are those who now blame her husband for not hiring the private security he was advised to for her death.
-- Corrupt or not, BB was the best hope for rapprochement with India, the EU as well as the US, and now even Pakistanis who never liked or trusted her (her PP Party really is the ranks of the poor who saw her as an Eva Peron- type savior despite her feudal wealth) urge the country to give her son/PPP and the actual party leaders time to forge a peaceful coalition with Musharref as the only alternative is more violence. In time real PPP (and other party) leaders will emerge. -- I hope Fatima buries her personal anger and moves on.

Posted by: julia s | January 01, 2008 at 11:03 AM