Potpourri for $100

• Yes, well, 4 a.m. is too early for the writing function to work properly.
• The Hunting of the Snark has more on the intellectual bankruptcy of Mr. Douthat.  I think it gets added to the blogroll.  What I tell [myself] three times is true...
• The previous article on Mr. Douthat by Susan of Texas.
• Really difficult:  "Black Rage, Black Silence & Sexual Violence."  (Via Shakesville)
• "Cleans and Dirtys" and "Cleans and Dirtys Rise Again" and "The Beginning is a Clean The End is a Dirty."  Ancient humor.
• Via Daisy's Dead Air (she's back!), TransGriot's 2012 essay on why voting is important:

  You value most what was denied to you or your oppressors are hellbent (see ALEC sponsored voter ID suppression laws as a prime example of that). in trying to take away from you. It's also never far from our minds that people shed blood and sacrificed their lives in order for us to get our precious right to vote. .
  
  Those statements are uttered far too frequently from people who want a third party in the United States or who support third party candidates because they don't like the Democratic or Republican candidates for whatever reason.

• You better not say "VAGINA" in a classroom.
• Daisy on music and aging.  Also the "Red Detachment of Women" and old vinyl.