[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• James Bow wishes he had better choices in the Ontario election than to vote for the least bad party.


• Centauri Dreams shares an essay by Cameron Smith examining cultural evolution on long-duration interstellar missions, like generation starships.


• Crooked Timber continues its symposium on the ethics of immigration, arguing in favour of open borders.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that streaks on Martian dune slopes might be ephemeral sheets of water.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the continuing devastation of Louisiana by the side-effects of the oil industry.


• Marginal Revolution notes that the cap-and-trade economics of the carbon market are spreading throughout the United States.


• The New APPS Blog wonders if the boredom plausibly associated with immortality could be dealt with by a short memory--the goldfish solution, as the blog calls it.


• Peter Rukavina shares a lovely example of his printing, a short passage of Jack Layton's final address to Canada.


• The Russian Demographics blog wonders what will happen to HIV in Crimea now that it's part of Russia.


• Torontoist notes that the New Democratic Party promises many lovely things for Toronto if it wins the Ontario elections but doesn't describe how it would pay for it all.


• Towleroad notes that playing a gay man in the 1981 film Making Love destroyed his film career.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that the anti-terrorist campaign in eastern Ukraine is much less bloody than Russian campaigns in the North Caucasus, and notes that the Russian Orthodox Church isn't quite on side (losing Ukraine would hurt it).