[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO answers the question of why Toronto has "Lower" streets.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes how exoplanets can lose their exomoons if they orbit too closely.


• The Dragon's Tales notes differences in American and Chinese rhetoric about nuclear weapons.
Geocurrents looks at Chavacano, a rare Spanish-based creole language in the Philippines.

• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the problems of unionization in the South, concentrating on non-white minorities in a region where state governments are dominated by white supremacists of one kind or another.


• Personal Reflections considers visual language.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders what, if the Democratic Party candidate loses the 2016 American president election, the postmortem would look like.


• Spacing Toronto examines the downtown Toronto micronation known as the Republic of Rathnelly, created in the centennial year of 1967.


• Torontoist notes Glad Day's donation of hundreds of books to Toronto's new LGBTQ youth shelter, while Towleroad notes how the hom of an anti-gay church in New York City's Harlem can be made into a similar one.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russia will be found culpable in The Hague for ethnic cleansing of Georgians in 2008, and notes Putin's misrepresentation of historic demographics in Ukraine.