[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Andrew Barton, at Acts of Minor Treason, wonders about environmental warfare's possibilities.


• At Centauri Dreams, guest writer Larry Klaes writes about a program seeking ensure that "every space mission leaving our Sol system has some kind of proper representation of its makers’ species and their home aboard," on the model of the Pioneer and Voyager plaques.


• Rob Pitingolo at Extraordinary Observation writes about how the sharp cuts in service by Cleveland's public transit authorities will launch the service into a death spiral, as more and more people find it inadequate for their needs and drop it.


• Geocurrents blogs about the ongoing disappearance of low-lying islands as sea levels rise and the effects of the 2004 tsunami on the nationalism of Indonesia's Acehnese.


• At GNXP--now at the Discover site--Razib discusses the fact that in a United States traditionally dominated by Protestants, non-Protestants now occupy most of the top judicial and political positions around.


• Itching for Eestima writes about the complicated questions surrounding Estonians' nostalgias for cultural artifacts of the Soviet era.


• Joe. My. God discusses how the Hungarian who inspired the book and movie The English Patient was actually quite, quite gay, and links to an interesting discussion about the decline of GLBT neighbourhoods as assimilation and gentrification proceeds.


• Marginal Revolution links to a provocative paper suggesting that Americans who enter jail not identifying as black often leave identifying as black.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer took a look (1, 2) took a look at the reasons behind the Comoros' 1970s secession from France and wonders whether things could have been different.


• Douglas Todd at the Search wonders why more people don't talk about terrorists like those found in American militias as terrorists.


• Torontoist's Edward Brown mourns the fact that although the Prince Edward Viaduct crossing the Don River and connecting Bloor Street with Danforth plays a critical role in Torontonian popular culture and infrastructure, few people actually know its proper name.


• Window on Eurasia writes about the mass migration of ethnic Russians from the North Caucasus and the fact that Russia's Muslims have pretty much converged to national demographic patterns of births.