[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Andrew Barton's Acts of Minor Treason considers the question of why people don't care more about restrictive intellectual property rights legislation.


• At Crooked Timber, Chris Bertram writes about his use of film for his photography, talking about the amount of attention and craft that film requires.


• Daniel Drezner writes about the political-cum-bureaucratic controversies surrounding a leaked document that criticizes Obama's Iran policy.


• A Fistful of Euros' Matthew Turner analyses the Liberal Democrats' surge in the British election campaign, suggesting that their weakness relative to Labour or the Conservatives comes from the fact that their voter base is spreading fairly evenly across the country, with relatively fewer strongholds.


• The Global Sociology Blog reviews a book that examines the French model of social mobility, suggesting that a model that allows individuals the right and freedom to reach the highest ranks of society is better than simply reducing inequalities between different social groups.


• Joe. My. God writes about the discontent of some blog readers at the amount of sexual explicitness to be found in many queer (male, I guess) blogs. It's probably inevitable, I think, since the lowest common denominator for a queer audience is sex.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money announces that it looks like the explosion that destroyed a South Korean naval ship a few days ago was "external," i.e. likely an attack of some kind. The question of proportional responses, and the cost of said, is prominent in local minds.


• At Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen suggests that Greece will fail at managing its deficit, unlike Canada and Sweden in the 1990s, because the government isn't trusted enough to get the public acquiescence necessary for the cuts.


• Spacing Toronto's Jacqueline White Appleby writes about the experiences of a fictional commuter from Toronto writer Austin Clarke's More, noting about the complexity of commutes and the book's communication of the commuting experience and the quietness of commuters in the face of the rude.