Links? Links.

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about:

• A prayer for Hurricane Sandy 
• The NYT takes a rosy view of the mallification of Hyde Park, my old neighborhood. 
• Want a more substantive Obama-Romney debate on energy and climate? Read this. 
• 20 Honest Names For Famous Toys
• Mitt Didn’t Ask for ‘Binders Full of Women,’ But He Should Have.
• For the first time, the gender gap is bigger than the God gap.
• Very smart piece on abortion politics by Michael Peppard.
• "No, really, blessed are the poor."
• xkcd on electoral precedent 
• End the town-hall debate.
• Less Hypermodernist Objectivism, More Affect!
• If you're not willing to give poor kids good schools, you can always drug them instead.
• "The sheet calling the rice white."
• Texts From Little Women
• Is emergency room care actually a great deal?
• The tyranny of tasting menus.
• The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture”

Links are also posted throughout the day in the right-hand sidebar of my main blog page and in this feed.