[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy shares a photo of the Earth and Moon taken by a Mars probe.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money responds to a baffling claim by a New York City policeman that stranger rape is more of a concern than acquaintance rape.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw, returned from Denmark, wonders
  about the extent to which social happiness is maximized by stability and security.


• Progressive Download's John Farrell argues that scientists should approach the theory of evolution in a less mechanistic light.


• Window on Eurasia reports on the transformation of United Russia into a parallel structure of government akin to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and engages with the possibility of a pro-Russian Ukrainian government-in-exile.


• Alex Harrowell of Yorkshire Ranter looks at the problems of an independent central bank, finding that failings attributed to these are actually faults of government.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at the highly evolved fashion sense of faggots, in the context of Italy's divides and celebrities.