[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• At the Financial Times' The World blog, Gideon Rachman is skeptical about Tony Blair's Middle Eastern vision.


• Joe. My. God. notes that five men recently arrested for a gay-bashing in Brooklyn were part of a Hasidic Jewish group involved in policing their neighbourhood.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that budget cuts will make travel around Seattle on mass transit difficult.


• John Moyer engages with the idea of non-binary gender in science fiction.


• The New APPS Blog rightly observes that Tennessee's proposed bill SB 1391, which would make women criminally liable if anything happens to their fetuses, is outrageous.


• Otto Pohl observes that the former Soviet German diaspora has collapsed in numbers hugely became of mass emigration.


• The Signal reports on a personal digital archiving conference. People need to know what to do, why, and how.


• Towleroad notes a study suggesting that, if beards become too popular, they may start becoming less attractive.


• The Volokh Conspiracy engages in discussion as to how people should respond to opponents of same-sex marriage, as bigots or not.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Lithuania, apparently by offering refuge to Crimean Tatars, is now being accused of sponsoring Islamic extremists.