[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Daniel Drezner reports that Sarah Palin seems to know nothing about economics.


• Edward Lucas writes about how, post-Georgia, the Baltic States should avoid panicking quite so much--they aren't going to be abandoned.


• Over at Far Outliers, one blogger's reaction to the Finnish president's recent suggestion that the Estonians were hypersensitive to Russia is to talk about the self-Finlandization and unwillingness to challenge Russia that he detected among many Finns in the latter half of the Cold.


• A Fistful of Euros lets us know that Montenegro's new top-level domain is .me. Expect a .tv- or .to-style influx of funds to coming into that Balkan republic, I suppose.


• Junk mail, Tim Harford the Underground Economist lets us know, actually may not just be junk but actually can play a major role in political campaigns.