[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO's Rick McGinnis blogs about the disappearance of the former Bohemian district of Gerrard Village thanks to rising real estate prices.
  
• James Bow comments on the Louisiana judge opposed to interracial marriage. Racist, that last guy.


• Far Outliers links to a source discussing how Fijians of Melanesian background, not just Indo-Fijians, are beginning to become sailors on the world stage in larger numbers. The blog also tackles the remnants of Thessaloniki's multiculturalism.


• Language Log reports on language conflict in Taiwan and Guangdong, as locals try to reassert their languages against Putongua. In a related post, the blog wonders what exactly constitutes an ethnic group.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Robert Farley savages American conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer.


• Peter Rukavina links to a video tour of Toronto's Coach House Press.


• Slap Upside the Head notes that yet another group of "concerned citizens" want to forcibly exclude a GLBT-themed book from a public library.


• Towleroad reports that American gay writer Edmund White thinks that same-sex marriage is radical simply because it normalized same-sex couples.


• Window on Eurasia observes that an opening of the Turkish-Armenian frontier would transform the mental maps and national identities of Armenians and Turks alike, and also comments on Russia's emergence as a supplier of raw materials to China.