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RANDOM LINKS FOR 3/24/12

March 24th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

We’ve got the indie alcohol entrepreneurs. We’ve got the apples (though perhaps not the right kinds). So let’s get a bigtimeÂ hard cider industry going in Wash. state already!
The Central Cinema, which insists it needs to serve beer and wine to adult patrons at screenings, to survive, will apparently get to keep doing so. Even during all-ages screenings.
Dept. of Just Sayin’: In three years, it will be a novelty to find a new hiphop artist who’s not white. Like with jazz after 1965, or with soul after 1985.
Death Cab for Cutie (you know, the quasi-local band whose singer now lives in L.A. (until recently with Zoey Deschanel)) has entitled its spring 2012 tour “Return to Bellingham.” The tour does not actually include a show in Bellingham.
Does current Seattle zoning need to be revised, to require more off-street parking in new developments? The Seattle Transit Blog apparentlyÂ doesn’t think so, at least in one instance.
Knute Berger looks at Seattle Center development schemes and would really like someone to explain them in non-buzzword-talk.
If you know them, you love them, and you just can’t get enough of George Tsutakawa’sÂ fountain sculptures. Seattle gallery owner John Braseth tracked one down in Indiana, and is arranging to have it fixed up and placed somewhere in town.
There are a few non-Deja Vu strip clubs left in the region. Just not many.
Oliver Willis wants more real progressives running for office, and wants them to actually “stand for something“â€¦
â€¦while Chris Mooney at AlterNet thinks he’s figured a way progs could successfully appeal to “the right-wing brain.”
The Economist notes that divorce, abortion, unwed pregnancy, and violent crime are all way down in the U.S. these days. So, the essay asks, why are Republicans still exhorting about “moral decline“? Perhaps because U.S. church attendance is also way down.
Naomi Wolf insists elite private K-12 schools are bad for America and even bad for the kids who get sent thereâ€¦
â€¦while Adam Levin at HuffPost suggests the Feds consider ordering a cap on public-college tuition, so taxpayer-supported universities don’t become only for the 1 percenters.
Blogger “Angry Black Lady” really doesn’t like the Republican woman who claims the Democrats are just making up the whole “Republican war on women” meme.
It wasn’t just Marx. Keynesians and other macroeconomists are also often guilty of forgetting the human factor in their systems constructs.