Opinion: Sluts, toothpicks, racial quotas, disasters, Bush, Hillary, Obama and Maria Shriver, not necessarily in that order

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Your top 10 Opinion items from Oct. 26-Nov. 2: 1) A holiday for sluttiness, by Joel Stein.
2) Straitjacket Bush, by Rosa Brooks.
3) The adoption vs. abortion myth, by Cory L. Richards.
4) Conservatism’s buzz-kill, by Jonah Goldberg.
5) Maria Shriver’s job, editorial.
6) Caltrans’ misguided U-turn on contracts, by Sharon Browne, Linda Chavez and Ward Connerly.
7) No free pass for Hillary, Editorial.
8) Acts of God, and man, by Gregory Rodriguez.
9) Obama’s gospel mistake, by David Ehrenstein.
10) Looking for a good toothpick -- for 2 million years, by Henry Petroski.