[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Language Hat blogs about appearances of Nahuatl in Los Angeles, in television and in education.
  
• Language Log talks about "Zhonghua minzu", meaning "Chinese nation" or "Chinese race" depending on the translation.


• Marginal Revolution notes that Canada, with inelastic production, might have a marijuana shortage come legalization/
  
• In the NYR Daily, Christopher de Bellaigue wonders if Britain--the West, even--might be on the verge of a descent into communal violence.


• Peter Rukavina looks at the accessibility of VIA Rail's data on trade arrivals and departures.


• Starts with a Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, in the far distant starless future, the decay of binary brown dwarf orbits can still start stars.


• Torontoist shares photos of the Dyke March.


• Window on Eurasia argues that Tatarstan's tradition of bourgeois and intellectually critical nationalism could have wider consequences, in Russia and beyond.