[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy notes the literally cosmic homophobia of Louie Gohmert.


• The Big Picture notes a Chinese factory set to make a fortune off of making masks of the American presidential candidates.


• blogTO notes the raising of the Trans and Pride flags at Toronto City Hall, marking the beginning of Pride month.


• Crooked Timber notes the racism that erased the genealogy of African-Americans.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Britain's NHS has rejected PrEP again.


• Language Log notes the sensitivity of the local version of the name "Pikachu" in Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong.


• The LRB Blog reports from the scene of an active volcano in Nicaragua.


• Marginal Revolution notes that witchcraft apparently does hurt economic progress.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders why New Zealand and Uruguay, with such similar economies, saw such substantial economic divergence after 1950.


• Peter Rukavina reports on an interesting Asian food store in Charlottetown.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes a Russian claim that condoms cause HIV transmission.