[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• BCer in Toronto's Jeff Jedras comments on Justin Trudeau's boycotting of Sun News after that organization's Ezra Levant insulted his parents.


• blogTO comments on last night's wild mayoral debate. I will note that on Twitter the whole thing seemed like a mess.


• Crooked Timber considers the endurance of myths like that surrounding the murder of Kitty Genovese.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper on stellar winds suggesting that habitable planets in orbit of orange dwarfs may be best of all, and links to another casting doubt on the existence of Gliese 667Cd.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that F-22as were used in combat for the first time against the Islamic State.


• Joe. My. God. observes that one participant in a publicized gay-bashing in Philadelphia was the daughter of a local police chief.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money mocks Bill O'Reilly's suggestion to raise a mercenary army to fight against the Islamic State.


• pollotenchegg notes that the Ukrainian region of Donetsk was in a demographic free-fall even before the recent war.


• Peter Rukavina notes how, in a low-key way, women got the vote on Prince Edward Island in 1922.


• Tall Penguin celebrates her birthday.


• Torontoist raves about the new Fort York visitor centre.


• Towleroad features a Chinese gay man speaking out against gay conversion therapy.<.li>
  
• Understanding Society's Daniel Little examines a mass survey of Chinese on what they think an ideal world should be like.


• Window on Eurasia notes Russian ignorance of Kazakh history and is skeptical of the idea of increasing religious content in public schools.