[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

San Francisco mass transit, the rhetoric of the taxpayer, young adult fiction, and more!

• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton takes a look at San Francisco's streetcar system.


• blogTO shows how the now-trendy Distillery District was, earlier in the 20th century, a neighbourhood that lived up to its name.


• The Burgh Diaspora notes that population decline doesn't necessarily mean a brain drain, since Sunbelt states have seen stagnant productivity growth and suffer from a brain shortage.


• The Global Sociology Blog notes the peculiar role of the taxpayer, at once sufferer and beneficiary of taxation.


• The Alpine principality of Liechtenstein, Joe. My. God reports, has approved same-sex civil unions.


• Marginal Revolution notes that China has replicated an Austrian village for domestic tourism.


• Laura Agustin at the Naked Anthropology looks at the sex trade and wonders if people are offended because this makes the personal business.


• Diane Duane's blog Out of Ambit--now blogrolled--writes about the depiction of problems in young adult fiction--and argues it's for the best. We want to know them, right?


• At The Search, Douglas Todd deals with the psychic after-effects of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riots.


• Registan's Joshua Foust is beginning to note new research on central Asia that doesn't generalize it as a place full of scary Muslims.


• Siberian Light observes the ongoing struggle for power between Russia's president Putin and prime minister Medvedev.