Posted on August 23, 2009Best of the Week: August 16-22, 2009 10. The Gay Gap — Ryan Sager 9. Who Needs the Public Option? — Uwe E. Reinhardt 8. Co-Ops Are the Single Dumbest Idea I Have Heard in the Health Care Debate in Twenty Years — Bob Laszewski 7. Credit Crunch Means We May Not Be Out of This Yet — Steven Pearlstein 6. Monsters from the Deep — Michael Kaplan 5. Government Should Drop Its Ban on Online Poker — George F. Will 4. Why Is Obama’s Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google? — Fred Vogelstein 3. Bush Administration Worse than Our Nightmares — Juan Cole 2. Role of U.S. Militarism in Ahmadinejad’s Rise — Muhammad Sahimi 1. Priority Test: Health Care or Prisons? — Nicholas D. Kristof BONUS: “Stop SHOUTING” — Joe Janes