[PHOTO] Community, by Kirk Newman (2001)

Kirk Newman's 2001 sculpture "Community" stands on the lawn of Manulife Financial's headquarters on Bloor Street East.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• James Bow talks about how Ontario aiming for experimental hydrogen-powered trains, not electric ones, is a mistake.


• Marginal Revolution reports on the community that WalMart took to a West Virginia county it is now leaving.


• Diane Duane shows an old novel proposal from 1999 that she found again, and is now dusting off.


• Transit Toronto notes that the time-based transfer program on the St. Clair route is ending, after 12 years.


• Unicorn Booty reports on the lavender scare of the 1950s in the United States.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes the strong use of repetition, as a literary device, in the Hebrew version particularly of Genesis.


• Window on Eurasia wonders how the Russian-American relationship, one Russia has depended on in the past, will evolve.