[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the spread of condos along the western waterfront of Toronto.


• Centauri Dreams considers the idea of planetary cloaks.


• Crooked Timber considers strategic voting in the American context.


• Dangerous Minds notes, with photos, two nuns in California who grow medical marijuana.


• The Dragon's Tales note evidence of invasive species introduced to the Caribbean by native peoples.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money considers protests in Air France over wearing headscarves.


• The LRB Blog considers anti-Arab sentiment in France and in the southern city of Béziers.


• Marginal Revolution looks at the economic costs of a flu pandemic.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is profoundly skeptical of Trump's plan to force Mexico to pay for a border wall.


• Savage Minds considers the complexities of ethnography in tense, even violent, situations.


• Towleroad notes a transgender teen who was run down in California for no reason apart from gender identity.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the restive Talysh of the Iran-Azerbaijan border.