[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the end of long-running Toronto literary journal Descant.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the Russian acquisition of another SSBN.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money links to a Los Angeles Times article examining child labour on Mexican farms.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining surnames in Catalonia for mobility.


• Livejournaler moiraj mocks, with facts, the predictions of Canadian conservative journalist Diane Francis.


• The New APPS Blog considers the biopolitics of inexpensive medical tests.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw started a discussion about the attractiveness or not of villains, even before the Sydney tragedy.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes how Mexico City made construction issues for its subway Line 12 into a net positive.


• The Russian Demographics Blog debunks a myth about Russian premature mortality for the 1923 cohort that still tells of terrible things.


• Strange Maps notes the significant problems of explorers trying to map northeastern, Arctic, Canada.


• Torontoist notes Toronto's Black Lives Matter march while Towleroad notes the lack of a GLBT-black coalition.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russian economic problems are worsening the government's relations with republics like Tatarstan, wonders how long Kadyrov will stay in power in Chechnya, and suggests Belarusian bases might be used to threaten Ukraine.