[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Crooked Timber hosts a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel about the Greek economic crisis. What will you, aided by your assistant, do to solve the crisis? In the comments and elsewhere, readers report opting for Argentine-style bankruptcy as the least bad option.


• Daniel Drezner is worried about Iran, suspecting that the ambiguity of the American government as to the ultimate goal of sanctions on Iran (limiting nuclear proliferation or regime change) may back the United States into a corner where regime change is the only option.


• The Global Sociology Blog notes that the culture warriors' opposition to liberalized divorce laws and growing singledom may be ill-founded, inasmuch as the traditional family may no longer be a useful unit and it's--at the very least--open to question whether or not singles are more isolated than people in couples.


• The Global Sociology Blog also looks at the tradition and mechanics of patriarchy in Afghanistan and Kashmir.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the question of what web documents get tweeted on Twitter as opposed to liked on Facebook. The consensus seems to be that Twitter, as the more professional medium, carries links to more professional documents than a more informal Facebook.


• Another post at Lawyers, Guns and Money links to the Crooked Timber CYOA novella I mentioned above but also to a statement by the Greek foreign minister warning that the country's military can still respond to threats from Turkey.


• Spacing Toronto's Luca de Franco interviews Sharon Switzer, the woman who curates art displays on video monitors in the subway.


• Strange Maps explores through maps the idea of a Scandinavian Scotland.