[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton profiles the light rail mass transit system of Oregon's city of Portland. Promising, the MAX seems to be.


• blogTo shows its readers where to find abandoned TTC buses and subway cares (near the Wilson Subway Yard in east-end Toronto, it turns out). Photos!
  
• Centauri Dreams takes another look at the prospect of Earth-like worlds orbiting post-main sequence white dwarfs. They may be rare, but they may also be easy enough to detect.


• Daniel Drezner rounds up academic responses to Mitt Romney's claim that Israeli wealth and Palestinian poverty can be explained by "cultural" differences. Fail, yes.


• Eastern Approaches takes a look at the Czech heritage of Madeleine Albright in the context of her new biography.


• Marginal Revolution examines the consequence of the trade-off in Japan to maintain a strong currency to support its graying population at the expense of domestic industries.


• This Savage Minds post taking a look at the failings of Mark Regnerus' post on same-sex parenting is worth reading.