[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that a holiday pop-up market will appear in Union Station this Christmas.


• The Broadside Blog notes the power of apologizing.


• Centauri Dreams considers the idea of pairing multiple drive systems for deep-space flight.


• Eastern Approaches looks at the outlook for democracy in central and eastern Europe 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.


• At A Fistful of Euros, Tobias Schwarz notes his own childhood experiences with the Berlin Wall.


• Joe. My. God. shares the video of an American conservative pastor nonplussed by Scandinavians' disinterest in his religion.


• Languages of the World examines the history of the Druze.


• The Map Room's Jonathan Crowe has a nuanced take on the aftermath of war this Remembrance Day.


• Marginal Revolution notes that African immigrants to the United States are quite well-educated.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes the ways in which divisions among Australian Aborigines undermine their political movements.


• Towleroad notes the sustained hostility of anti-gay conservatives to gay and even gay-friendly Republicans.


• Window on Eurasia notes the problems with a Russian Foreign Legion and suggests that much ethnographically Belarusian and Ukrainian territory was unfairly assigned to Russia in the early Soviet Union.