1. These three articles on the sometimes troubled relationship between feminism and the trans movement look a bit like thesis, antithesis and synthesis, but I'm not intending that. Still, it's best to read them in order, first this one, then this one and finally this one. I picked these because they are more nuanced than the average diatribes in this area. Notice the absence of similar debates about cis men and trans men. Why they are missing isn't clear to me.
2. Why does Saudi Arabia take no refugees from the war-torn countries of Iraq and Syria (or from Palestine)? The same appears to be the case for other Gulf states? I spent some time looking for the answer. Sure, those countries provide funds, but as far as I can tell they don't offer any shelter for refugees, even though the cultural chasms to be bridged would be considerably smaller there than in, say, Sweden (which does take in a lot of refugees for its size).
3. Then today's smart Republican comment from Mark Kirk:
During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday, the Illinois senator was heard on the live microphone talking about the Republican presidential candidate.
"I've been joking with Lindsey," Kirk was overheard saying. "He's going to have a rotating first lady. He's a bro with no ho."
No comment on that, because I'm in a hurry to bang my head against the garage door.