[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith writes about Christmas cards and memory.


• blogTO notes the impending expansion of the Drake Hotel.


• The Broadside Blog describes a documentary, The Eagle Huntress, about a Mongolian teenage girl who becomes a hunter using eagles, that sounds spectacular.


• Crooked Timber asks readers to help a teenager who has been arrested by the LAPD.


• Dangerous Minds notes some weird monsters from Japanese folklore.


• The Dragon's Tales suggests that the Hellas basin hides the remnants of its ocean.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the finding that Russia was trying to get Trump elected.


• The Volokh Conspiracy considers the issue of hate speech and immigration.


• Window on Eurasia quotes a former Ukrainian president who argues Russia does not want to restore the Soviet Union so much as it wants to dominate others.


• The Yorkshire Ranter notes how the Daily Telegraph is recommending its readers use tax shelters.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at the language of side-eye and stink-eye.