[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams looks at the upgrading of the European Southern Observatory in order to investigate the Alpha Centauri system.


• Dangerous Minds shares some vintage drag and gay club matchbook covers.


• The Frailest Thing quotes Hannah Arendt on what it means to live in dark times.


• Joe. My. God. notes Jeff Sessions' less than convincing defense of same-sex marriage and abortion rights.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the unstable white supremacist base.


• Marginal Revolution takes a look at some interesting conflicts in American government.


• At the NYRB Daily, Masha Gessen is less than convinced by the intelligence evidence offered up against Trump.


• Torontoist notes that the most recently proposed Scarborough subway extension is not going through.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the collapse of Russia's print media owing to falling readership.

Comments

[dewline]

1. SO looking forward to the results of this! B-)

3. Arendt is still right on this one, even in her grave.

4. I wouldn't trust Sessions on that either until I saw the proof in his actions.

5. Loving this quote:

"It’s always so sad to watch naive fascists come to grips with the fact that lying pig they voted for because he was telling the right sort of lies was lying to them as well. These tears in my eyes are pity tears, not barely suppressed mirth tears."

May these bigots remain frustrated. To their last.

7. She needs more evidence on this, then?

9. So their print media seems to be worse off than ours, and worse: the local national government cares less about the consequences, seeing them as "wins". Ugh.