[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the plans to build a large park under the western Gardiner.


• Centauri Dreams looks at Pluto.


• The Dragon's Tales goes to Syria.


• Far Outliers reports from a despairing Siberian village.


• Geocurrents notes that most Moravians live in Tanzania.


• Joe. My. God. notes Ireland's marriage laws have gone into effect.


• Language Log looks at the spread of the shawm, a musical instrument, across Asia.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes David Frum's proposal to ethnically cleanse Muslims from Europe.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers the prospects for a widened French war in Syria, noting that despite the popularity of intervention France cannot do much more.


• The Volokh Conspiracy is critical of the European Union's policy requiring the labeling of goods made in the West Bank.


• Window on Eurasia notes the growth of barriers hindering the departure of Russians and looks at Stalin's rivalry with Hitler in the Balkans and elsewhere.