[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that Uniqlo will be giving away free thermal clothing tomorrow.


• James Bow shares his column about the importance of truth.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares with us her mid-winter walk.


• Centauri Dreams reports about cometary water.


• Dangerous Minds shares German cinema lobby cards from the 1960s.


• Language Hat talks about dropping apostrophes.


• Language Log reports about lexical searches on Google.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the latest from Trump.


• The NYRB Daily shares a review of an Iranian film on gender relations.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes the ongoing gas price protests in Mexico.


• Spacing links to some articles about affordable housing around the world.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes Germany's abolition of a law forbidding insults to foreign heads of state.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that stable Russian population figures cover up a wholesale collapse in the numbers of ethnic Russians, and looks at the shortages of skilled workers faced by defense industries.