MANY SHADES

Rethinking "race"

http://www.vox.com/2014/10/10/6943461/race-social-construct-origins-census 

The history of Islam in three minutes

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/1300-years-of-islamic-history-in-3.html

More: http://www.salon.com/2014/10/11/atheism_islam_and_liberalism_this_is_what_we_are_really_fighting_about/

Sunday think piece: how GOP extremism opens up an opportunity for Dems