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RANDOM LINKS FOR 9/1/11

August 31st, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

619 western's exterior during the 'artgasm' festival, 2002

We begin with the end of a 27-year tradition. The 619 Western Building artists will hold their actual, for-real-this-time, final First Thursday art show tonight. Like the previous one, it will actually occur in the south parking lot outside the building.
The feds want to protect Bellevue-basedÂ T-Mobile USA from AT&T’s planned takeover.
Port Townsend town leaders are getting a federal grant to start a privately run, tourist-oriented passenger ferry from Seattle. Rides are expected to go at $20-$25 a ticket.
Tacoma doesn’t want any more big box chain stores for the time being.
Employment in Puget Sound country? Rising up to mediocre. In the rest of the state? Still putrid.
Those “tea party” scream-bots love to interrupt Democratic politicians’ town halls. But when they’re elected, they don’t like to hold any fully public meetings of their own.
That “Latino gang problem” in south King County, mentioned in yesterday’s Random Links? Keegan Hamilton at Seattle Weekly says it’s way overblown.
Howard Schultz’s crusade to get CEOs to stop giving to politicians seems to be working. If, by working, you mean cutting off money to Democrats, while the super-PACs giving to Republicans get ever super-er.
TheÂ HP tablet device became so popular at really cheap close-out prices, that HP’s getting more madeâ€”to be sold at the same near-total-loss price. This is politely known as dot-com economics at work.
Just when we got excited that JC Penney was coming back to downtown Seattle, the company has to pull one of the ultimate all-time product FAILs. Yep, we’re talking about the girls’ shirt bearing the slogan “I’mÂ too pretty to do homework, so my brother has do it for me.”
Glenn Greenwald describes the “war on terror” as “the decade’s biggest scam.” Considering all the other scams competing for that title, that’s saying something.
What sounds weirderâ€”Al Jazeera’s claim that Dennis Kucinich tried to help Gaddafi stay in power, or the associated claim that Kucinich’s partner in the scheme was a top ex-Bush aide?
We end with the end of a 42-year tradition. All My Children taped its last network episode Wednesday.