[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Crooked Timber links to John Quiggin's article in the Guardian about how formerly public companies should be renationalized.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that Lockheed has just signed a $US 150 million dollar contract to deliver a 60 kilowatt laser weapon to the US navy by 2020.


• Hornet Stories ranks the different performances at last night's Grammies, giving Kesha top placing.


• JSTOR Daily looks back to contemporary coverage of the 1918 flu epidemic. How did people react, how did they cope?


• Language Hat looks at a multilingual comic by Japan-born artist Ru Kawahata, Stuck in the Middle.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests that, rather than hoping for Trump to perform to minimal expectations in the upcoming State of the Union address, it might be more profitable (and enjoyable?) to wait for the inevitable meltdown. What will it be?


• Marginal Revolution notes a proposal in Rotterdam for police to arrest people wearing expensive clothes and jewellery and, if they cannot explain where they got them, confiscate them. Of course this policy could not be misused.


• Towleroad notes that drag queens have quit Burkhart's, a prominent gay bar in Atlanta, in response to that bar's owner's racist and alt-right statements on Facebook.


• Paul Cassell at the Volokh Conspiracy argues Judge Rosemarie Aquilina was entirely correct in allowing all the victims of Nassar to speak at sentencing.


• Window on Eurasia notes that radical Islamists are increasingly using Russian to communicate, not the traditional languages of Russia's Muslim populations. Linguistic assimilation does not equal cultural assimilation.