[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• BlogTO and Torontoist both note the impending closure of the Annex location of Book City, a local independently-owned mini-chain. Rising rents, falling sales, alas.


• The Dragon's Tales notes research suggesting that one-fifth of Sun-like stars have a roughly Earth-mass planet in their habitable zones.


• Eastern Approaches touches upon drunk driving in Poland.


• Joe. My. God. observes that, already, gay men in Nigeria are facing trial and execution for their sexual orientation.


• Laywers, Guns and Money notes that WalMart's anti-unionization propaganda isn't very convincing.


• Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog notes her new article exploring the Kuiper belt, an area of the solar system that has become much more complicated since the discovery of other Pluto-like bodies.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is unconvinced that teaching of Russian as a second language in Syrian schools and use of a marginal naval outpost is recompense for Russia's support for the Syrian regime.


• Peter Rukavina doesn't like the quick daytrips of cruise ship visitors to Prince Edward Island.


• Steve Munro wants all levels of government to move from talk of funding new mass transit projects to actually building something.


• Towleroad notes that virulently homophobic Russian actor Ivan Okhlobystin wants to forcibly convert his gay stylist.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russia wants to more strictly control human rights groups.