[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• James Bow makes the point that streetcar systems like Toronto's are not the same as light rail.


• Over at Crasstalk, a poster makes the point that when Santorum talks about the threat gays in military service pose, he betrays his ignorance of Plato's observations and the Sacred Band of Thebes.


• At The Crux, Vaughan Bell discusses the interesting phenomenon of contagious hysteria as evidenced at a high school in upstate New York (here, involving seizures).


• Far Outliers is posting excerpts from Iron Kingdom, Clark's book on the history of Prussia, Two excerpts, one on the broad-based nature of patriotism in Prussia in the Napoleonic Wars and the other describing Prussia's shift from cautious support of the French Revolution against Austria to alliance against France, are noteworthy.


• Marginal Revolution observes that the incumbent Haitian president might be expelled from office if it turns out that he has been hiding a foreign citizenship, dual citizenship being illegal in Haiti.


• Progressive Download's John Farrell reports on claims to have discovered fragments of the Gospel of Mark dating back to the 1st century CE. Thoughts?


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Kenneth Anderson is almost certainly right to suggest that proposals to dispatch German tax officials to Greece are absolutely politically impossible.