[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• 80 Beats reports on speculation that antibiotics-laced consumer products are triggering allergies among children.


• A BCer in Toronto argues that three recent by-elections for seats in Parliament say nothing about long-term trends.


• The Burgh Diaspora uses China's new flexibility on age requirements for workers to make suggestions for the United States.


• Centauri Dreams reports on the discovery of a radiation-produced oxygen/carbon dioxide atmosphere on Saturn's moon Rhea, and what it could mean for life.


• Crooked Timber's Henry Farrell suggests that Irish public opinion is such that the deepening of the European Union is dead.


• At A Fistful of Euros' Edward Hugh is unimpressed with the European Commission's management of the Spanish economic crisis.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is thankful that some Southerners have recognizerd the Slavers' Rebellion for what it is, and that the fact that some Chinese diplomats were willing to tell South Koreans that South-led reunification wouldn't be too problematic says something.


• Slap Upside the Head reports that the Kenyan prime minister called for the punishment of gays on the grounds that Kenya's popuulation is even divided between the two sexes. What to do about the husbandless women?


• Strange Maps features a Frenchman's map from the 1860s showing Europe consolidated into a few megastates, including a Circassia and a Greek-led Balkan empire.


• At the Volokh Conspiracy, Dave Carpenter explains in detail that the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" survey has come up with a pretty solid "yes" in favour of lifting that policy.