[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO wonders whether, with Starbucks coming, Gerrard Street west of Little India is finally being gentrified.


• Border Thinking's Laura Agustin remarks on the exclusion of illegal immigrants from the German public health system.


• Daniel Drezner suggests that, based on current evidence, Europeans are responding to the Eurozone crisis not be falling apart but
  rather by intensifying integration.


• At Everyday Sociology, Janis Prince Inniss doesn't think much of calls to institutionalize more, possibly violent, mentally ill when mental health systems generally are so badly constructed.


• The Global Sociology Blog comes up with one more example why (I think) small communities shouldn't be self-governing, in the form of a teenage girl murdered in Bangladesh by a village court.


• Palun at Itching for Eestimaa reflects on holidays and foreigners in Estonia.


• Language Hat started an interesting discussion on the legitimation and diversity of Australian English.


• At Lawyers, Guns and Money, Scott Eric Kaufman describes how Doctor Who made the Weeping Angels--basically, statues which stalk you--so terrifying.


• Spike Japan continues its commentary on Huis ten Bosch, a Dutch-themed amusement park in Japan, additionally reflecting on the Dutch image over time.


• Towleroad links to some eye-catching Russian public service announcements aimed at HIV/AIDS among queer men.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little takes on Bourdieu, examining the density of interpretations and criticisms relating to any social fact.


• The Yorkshire Ranter argues that the Egyptian revolution has gone from a stage of mass protest to one of quiet, but radical, actual changes.