[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber reports on a recent study demonstrating that, as a rule, regime change--foreign interventions aimed at replacing a government--don't work.


• Geocurrents traces southern African support for Gaddafi to that region's very late, and very contested, decolonization, in which Gaddafi was actually on the side of the angels.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Robert Farley wonders whether the American sale of bunker buster bombs to Israel represents bad American policy or incompetent American policy.


• Livejournal's James Nicoll makes the point that, contrary to the claims of some, there's vastly more exploration of more targets in space that in the Apollo era in the 1970s. It's just robotic.


• Slap Upside the Head is rightly unimpressed with a farmer's market in Ontario that removed a transgendered worker because it was "family-friendly".


• Spacing joys of cycling in Vancouver and the travails of cycling in Toronto.


• Towleroad comments on how African-American Philadelphia Flyer Wayne Simmonds, was alleged to have directed a homophobic slur at famously gay-friendly player Sean Avery just days after Simmonds received a racially-motivated slur. (The NHL chose not to investigate.)


• At Understanding Society, Daniel Little analyzes the advertising industry in the context of the Frankfurt School's notes on capitalism's transformation of every relationship.


• Wasatch Economics' Scott Peterson is quite displeased with anti-sprawl activists who prevent the expansion of communities into farmland, even rural communities which really can't densify.