[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO starts a discussion as to the problems facing the retail chain Target here in Toronto. It starts off by noting that the chain was built on the footprint of Zellers.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to the paper arguing that Beta Pictoris b has an eight-hour day.


• The Dragon's Tales observes that India's new aircraft carrier, the I.N.S. Vikamaditya, has begun its first trials.


• Eastern Approaches notes the ongoing chaos in eastern Ukraine.


• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad both note that the governor of Kentucky is defending that American state's ban on same-sex marriage by suggesting it's needed to keep up the birth rate.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes note of the foolishness of Rob Ford.


• The New APPS Blog notes ongoing tensions between two strands of biopolitics, the first emphasizing collective public health and the second individual responsibility.


• Registan argues that Mongolian investment in the neighbouring Russian republic of Tuva could change the status quo in Siberia.


• Steve Munro worries that the new streetcars of the TTC will be used as excuses to remove stops, thus undermining the new streetcars.


• Whatever's John Scalzi thinks Heinlein could win a Hugo today. (Ongoing controversy in science fiction.)


• Window on Eurasia argues that Russia is objectively more fascist than Ukraine, suggests Russia isn't strong enough to launch a Cold War and will merely destabilize the world, and claims (after a Russian general) that Russia isn't strong enough to adequately oppose NATO.