[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton comes out in favour of very limited and careful funding of sports facilities by city governments. Cities need to spend on other things, too.


• Might cats be allies against Daleks? Bad Astronomy provides photographic proof.


• Paul Gilster at Centauri Dreams revisits scientific papers demonstrating that most liquid water in the solar system may be located in ice moons and worlds like Europa and Enceladus, not on our Earth.


• Crooked Timber meditates on how popularity of the Birther ideology among committed Republicans may be less a matter of belief and more demonstration of said people's in-groupness. Insightful discussion follows in the comments.


• At Eastern Approaches, an author observes the very begrudging reaction given to the deported Meskhetian Turks by the Georgian government.


• GeoCurrent Events' Martin Lewis reports on the Toshka Scheme, an effort by the Egyptian government to use overflow water from the Aswan High Dam to irrigate some desert in Upper Egypt. The scheme's viability is open to question.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is unimpressed by Stratfor's incomplete, unintentionally and dangerously misleading analysis of the situation in Bahrain.


• At The Search, Douglas Todd observes that Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver are more likely Christian than Buddhist.


• Slap Upside the Head isn't impressed by the Halton Catholic School Board's ban on specifically queer-oriented GSA as opposed to more general support groups.


• Science Not Fiction notes that progress has been made on creating an actual lagnuage common to humans and dolphins. More later.


• Finally, Towleroad observes the ongoing intrigues surrounding a possible .gay Internet domain.