[LINK] Some Friday Links

[rfmcdonald]

• Amused Cynicism's Phil Hunt links to more examples of anti-Obama craziness.


• Matthew Hayles drops by some Tornoto's participants in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) to see why a representative sample are doing it.


• Edward Hugh raises the question of where, exactly, all the money necessary for bailouts of companies and countries is going to come from.


• Back in July, Centauri Dreams reported that, in the very close binary star system of Alpha Centauri, gravitational processes made it very unlikely for an Earth-type world to form at a proper, Earth-like distance from the large Sun-like A component. Now the same has been confirmed to be true about Alpha Centauri B. Sigh.


• Daniel Drezner suggests that conserative voters for Obama vote for Obama because he's prudent.


• Edward Lucas writes about an ongoing Estonian spy scandal.


• Far Outliers blogs about the Indian diasporas of the 19th century and afterwards.


• Gideon Rachman suggests that Medvedev runs a risk of challenging the Obama administration in the ongoing dispute over the deployment of anti-missile systems to Poland.


• Responding to the disappointing news on Proposition 8 on same-sex marriage in California, Joe. My. God quotes one major community leader who says, correctly, that this only delays things, that it doesn't alter the trajectory towards marriage equality.


• Thie rather implausible map of an alternate-historical Italy that--so the author says--remains fascist and breaks from Nazi Germany and manages to keep its various European conquests (!) is worth viewing nonetheless. How would you create an Italy with those borders?