[LINK] Elsewhere in the blogosphere

[rfmcdonald]

• At the Opinionated Lesbian, Eleanor Brown wonders whether the world needs more single-issue politicians.


• Bert Archer follows up on the death of Corporal Anthony Boneca.


• After reporting on the resurgence of Greek paganism, Diane Duane links at Out of Ambit to a study suggesting that the way things are going, Superman will be more powerful than God by 2040. Power creep, see.


• A discussion started by Douglas Muir at A Fistful of Euros about Macedonia's recent election spirals out of control in the comments, as Macedonian and Albanian nationalists fight it out with Greeks, Serbs, and tangentially uninvolved third parties.


• Daniel Drezner is wrong when he suggests that Barbara Ehrenreich is being unserious when she describes the situation for women's rights as perilous. Her language was a bit over the top, but she is dead right about the way things are going now for women under the pressures of fundamentalism.


• I'm sorry that I didn't link to Charlie Stross' critique of the profoundly inhumane living conditions for inmates at Guantanamo Bay a month ago.


• Ian Irving, at False Positives, touches upon Canada's Shadow Generation, those people in the early 1960s born towards the end of Canada's baby boom, trapped between the hippies and the Gen Xers.


• Far Outliers has a series of posts on the construction of a Tibetan national identity within and without the frontiers of the People's Republic (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).