[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Andrew Barton at Acts of Minor Treason writes about how the CBC's innovative programming let him learn and enjoy things he'd otherwise not have. The cutbacks will not do good things for the national broadcaster.


• Jeff Jedras at A BCer in Toronto pins the blame for the massive cost overruns in Canada's share of the vastly overexpensive F-35 fighter program squarely on the Conservative Party and its ministers.


• Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster shares the good news that the United States will resume producing the radioactive isotope plutonium-238 so as to provide the necessary fuel for outer-system space probes.


• Crasstalk's Mean Ol' Liberal reflects on the meaning of the bulls of Wall Street, not only the statue but the speculators.


• Daniel Drezner thinks that if China's leadership really does see global geopolitics as a zero-sum phenomenon, China's relationship with the United States may face substantially more risks than previously thought.


• At Geocurrents, Martin Lewis notes that the northern half of Mali claimed by Tuareg rebels for their national homeland actually has very large non-Tuareg populations.


• The Global Sociology Blog notes the incentives to sociopathy in the global economy.


• Noel Maurer, at The Power and the Money, notes that the Mexican city of Monterrey has a rather high population density by American standards, and a high density of police, too. Thus, its crime rate has little if anything to do with the city's sprawl.


• Registan notes the ongoing solidification and intensification of ethnic divisions between Kyrgyz and Uzbek in southern Kyrgyzstan in the years after the deadly Osh riots.


• Torontoist's Todd Aalgard notes that plans to immediately rebuild a platground in Toronto's High Park are stymied by the need to meet city safety and building codes.