[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton wrestles with the maddening Phoenix light rail system.


• blogTO was the first to report that the Green Room, a locally famous bar/club/restaurant in the Annex closed down for health reasons, is open again.


• Daniel Drezner wonders why Middle Eastern dictators are so bad with presenting themselves in mass media.


• Extraordinary Observations' Rob Pitingolo makes the observation that with cars or bikes, travelling an urban landscape becomes much more full with detail.


• Far Outliers quotes a recent passage by the problematic V.S. Naipaul from his recent book on Africa, describing a Coloured woman's effort to develop a positive identity as something other than "Other."


• James Nicoll wonders how you would cook triffids. Like greens, the consensus seems to be.


• Language Log links to an analysis of Said Gadaffi's recent speech that looks at the (largely absent) claimed Libyan traits of his attempt folksy speech to the people.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Scott Erik Kaufman reviews Alison Bechdel's classic Fun Home as a reverse of Maus, in that the understanding of the parent can be achieved through narrative.


• Registan revisits the perennial problem of balancing human rights against national interests in American foreign policy, this time in Uzbekistan.


• Steve Munro documents the confusion and despair operating in the Toronto area's transit coordinators.


• At the Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin suggests that the Internet has led libertarianism become a viable ideology for well-socialized young people.


• The Yorkshire Ranter takes a look at the peculiar mechanics behind Egypt's recent Internet shutdown.