[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about the importance of people who believe in you.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a surge in gun sales after the San Bernardino shooting.


• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad write about ending PrEP profiteering.


• Language Hat talks about Mancunianisms.


• Language Log describes the odd but evocative language used to talk about pollution on Chinese social networks.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money seems unduly wedded to Venezuela's Chavismo.


• Justin Petrone talks about how compact the Baltic States actually are.


• Transit Toronto talks about the 1995 retirement of the PCC streetcar.


• Window on Eurasia is not hopeful about the consequences for a breakdown of the Putin consensus and speculates about the future of Russian statehood in the light of Soviet dissolution.