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RANDOM LINKS FOR 4/26/13

April 26th, 2013 by Clark Humphrey

capitol records via wikipedia

Among the stories I missed by waiting a week to post Random Links:Â Heart’s well-deserved induction into the Rock n’ Roll Hall o’ Fame.
Are the Sonics Back Yet? (Day 108): No. But at least we have a date when we might (repeat, might) find out one way or the other: May 13.
Seattle’s on-and-off-again Fourth of July festivities are on again.
Seattle’s interim police chief says he’s really, really, really sorry for the video he made mocking the homeless back in the ’80s, using police training-video production gear.
Is “alternative” music too female-unfriendly? Or is it just corporate “alternative” music festivals that leave the women out?
The SunBreak explains just why privatized liquor costs more than state-liquor-store liquor did.
Starbucks is among the companies asking for expanded U.S. tax breaks on overseas revenues.
Washington’s attorney general wants you to know that T-Mobile’s “no-contract” cell phone plans can still cost you as much as traditional ones.
Paul Krugman asks whether no one in power even gives a damn about the long term unemployed; while Jared Bernstein at Salon says rising income inequality can’t be fixed unless the campaign-finance system is fixed first.
The Boston bombing media circus was a pathetic spectacle that continues to spread misinformation.
Bad news everyone: Futurama is canceled, again, perhaps this time forever (but that’s what they said the last time).
Speaking of shows (and characters) which have come back from the dead, the once-dead online revivals of All My Children and One Life to Live have miraculously re-revived like Lazarus Dixie. Episodes stream on Hulu.com starting Monday.
The film itself has gone on to the big Netflix stream in the sky cloud, but the original website advertising Space Jam lives on!
One or more of Wikipedia’s volunteer editors had been taking female writers out of a page about “American novelists” and into a page about “American women novelists.” But people complained, and the sex-segregation has stopped. This isn’t much different from indie bookstores (like Seattle’s Left Bank Books) separating “women’s fiction” from “general fiction.”
Can we really blame the whole ’08 economic kablooey on a few coked-up financiers in London?
AlterNet reminds you that, yes, your bad memories of George W. Bush are fully justified.