[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith tells the story of how he and his husband got the latest ornament for their tree.


• blogTO looks at Toronto Instagram star Aimee Hernandez.


• Language Hat parses the language of Wallace Stegner's fiction.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the worrying spread of smears and lies.


• Marginal Revolution looks at a musical highway in New Mexico.


• Torontoist describes biking in Toronto in the 1970s.


• The Volokh Conspiracy takes issue with the new Gilmore Girls.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russia would not accept Ukraine's Finlandization and reports on dissent among Russia's Muslims with the idea of a new state-imposed hierarchy.