Paper Clips and Erasers

• Some advice for the Vice Presidential debate, too late to do any good, of course.
• Via Mills River Progressive, a jeremiad on America:

  Moreover, tyranny and violence came out in force, rights to free assembly and speech had long disappeared and no one had been there to notice. Worse still, more openly sold those rights for nothing more than the promise of security, with only those of intellect, fewer each day it seems, aware that the enemy was and is…us.

• Echidne of the Snakes on sexist questions when interviewing women but not men.

There were other interesting links, but I ended up tracking down an ancient kerfuffle.  Those were the days...