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RANDOM LINKS FOR 8/27/11

August 27th, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

from alleewillis.com

The Martin Luther King Memorial in DC will not be dedicated this weekend as scheduled, due of course to the hurricane. That gives more time for critics to bash the whole thingâ€”for beingÂ designed and built in China (allegedly by unpaid labor); for being backed byÂ big corporate interests King might have protested against; and for generally depicting King as a “dreamer,” not theÂ rabble rouser and afflicter of the comfortable he really was.
Veterans’ activists allege theÂ suicide of a Ft. Lewis soldier a few weeks ago should be considered murder, committed by a military that utterly fails to tend to Iraq vets’ post-traumatic and other disorders.
Campagne, the longtime upscale Pike Place Market restaurant that’s produced the annual Post Alley Bastille Day fetes, will now be called “MarchÃ©.” I guess it’s OK since that outfit a couple blocks away isn’t using the word anymore.
The Boeing 787 was officially approved for passenger travel, more than three years behind schedule.
Erica C. Barnett asks why the $400,000 the City contributes toward Metro Transit’s potentially doomedÂ Ride Free Area couldn’t instead be used to buy automatic ticket-selling machines. Because that’s not free downtown transit for the people who need it, that’s why!
In other transportation news, the Sightline Institute has the good news that young adults are driving a lot less these days.
MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan has a new name for the billionaires and their cronies grifting from the rest of us for their own needless gainâ€””corporate communism.”
Was your favorite American-made electric guitar built with endangered imported wood?