[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

Enceladean oceans, US Civil War graves, economic insecurity, language conflict, the death of Toronto's ash trees, and more!

• Centauri Dreams suggests that the discovery of salt-like ice grains ejected from Saturn's moon Enceladus is another clue suggesting that moon has a water ocean.


• Far Outliers quotes from This Republic of Suffering, a book at least partly about memorials to dead soldiers in the US Civil War, describing how Southerners took care to desecrate the graves of Union soldiers.


• The Global Sociology describes sociologist Zygmunt Bauman's argument that the capitalists of a century ago have a mobility of capital that allows them to make a proletariat a fragmented "precariat".


• Joe. My. God notes that Jamaican music star Buju Banton, infamous for his murder music, has been sentenced in the United States to ten years in federal prison for his involvement in cocaine trafficking.


• Language Hat makes the interesting argument (1, 2) suggests that the success of Irish literary modernism has much to do with the turbulence related to the clash between the Irish and English languages, and also comments on the paradoxes in the Buddha's statements that could be interpreted either a a call for vernacular translations or as a call for the maintenance of his own language as the only language.


• Nissology PEI notes the success of Fiji in branding mahogany, and wonders what Prince Edward Island is doing.


• Slap Upside the Head observes that while British Columbia schools are adopting anti-homophobia education, the Toronto Catholic School Board is doing the reverse.


• Torontoist notes that the emerald ash borer, universally lethal to ash trees, has penetrated Toronto.


• Torontoist also notes that Ricardo Morrison, a man charged with numerous assaults on mentally ill men in the neighbourhood of Parkdale, has been charged with murder in the connection to the death of one of them, George Wass.


• Towleroad picks up on Toronto mayor Rob Ford's plan to miss Toronto's upcoming pride celebration.