[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Dragon's Tales notes that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are planning their customs union for 2015. Elsewhere in the cosmos, Will links to an astronomy paper summarizing the mysterious existence of three massive planets distant from their star.


• Clay Aiken for Congress? Joe. My. God. notes it could happen.


• Johnny Pez summarizes his successful year past creating a Wiki for Sobel's alternate history book For Want of a Nail (and later fan fiction project For All Nails).


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money is unimpressed by David Brooks' anti-marijuana column.


• Mark Simpson shares a Gay Liberation Front poster from 1975 purporting to trace heterosexuality's origins to any number of traumas.


• Marginal Revolution notes that a fifth of children in China do not live with their parents; they've migrated.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer describes energy reform in Mexico and is very skeptical about the claims of New York City's Stuyvesant High School to be truly elite and worthwhile.


• Steve Munro describes the planning for the Eglinton light rail route.


• Torontoist notes that a candidate for my riding of Ward 18 in Toronto is Alex Mazer, an acquaintance of mine from PEI.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Belarusians want European Union membership, wonders about Ukrainian Orthodox defecting from Moscow, and notes the below-replacement fertility in most of the North Caucasus.