[LINK] Some Friday Links

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• Phil Hunt at Amused Cynicism boils down the desire of many for cracked dogmas of various kinds on their desires for excessively simple black-and-white systems.


• blogTO covers the recent Toronto performance of Crowded House and judges it quite good.


• Ken MacLeod links to a brief look at end-of-the-world corporate insurance.


• Otto Spijkers at The Invisible College has a post up examining geographic parity in the various institutions of the United Nations.


• From Joe. My. God, news that another anti-gay "family values" Republic has a secret sexual life, in this case a mistress and a "love child."


• Gideon Rachman is critical of the idea of a concert of democracies, while Norman Geras takes him to task.
  
• Jaime Woo at Torontoist bemoans the publicity given to the new Sex and the City movie, though he does end his post by suggesting that Torontonians try to enjoy their city in the way that Carrie enjoys New York City.