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RANDOM LINKS FOR 1/26/12

January 25th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

delamar apartments (built 1909); from queen anne historical society

The Seattle Transit Blog would like you to know that, despite our politicians’ continuing paeans to the preservation of the sacred single family neighborhoods, the “majority of housing units in Seattle are multifamily” (apartments, condos, townhomes, et al.).
In a related trend, more Americans are now single than ever before. Only 51 percent of U.S. adults are married (even with the slow expansion of the right to get married).
Same sex marriages: At various past times and places, Christians loved ‘em.
A note to all our transit usin’ friends. Check out Metro’s proposed 2012 route changes while you can still give feedback about ‘em.
A cash-strapped state? Not if you listen to the construction lobby.
Is Amazon out to compete head-on with Netflix?
An 83-year-old peace-activist priest was sent to a Federal detention center in SeaTac, after he participated in a civil-disobedience action at a nuclear weapons plant site in Tennessee. He’s reportedly being held in solitary confinement, and has been on a hunger strike for two weeks.
Amy Goodman talks to people who see an “Occupy” influence in Obama’s State of the Union speech.
But then again, lotsa folk are trying to get a ride on the Occupy ____ bandwagon. Even anti-Semitic fringies, conspiracy-theory propagators, and radical libertarians. You know, the guys who believe business somehow doesn’t have enough power.
During this age of the incredibly shrinking newspaper, the Washington Post Co.’s main profit center has been the Kaplan “educational publishing” operation. That company’s bought a chain of for-profit colleges, now collectively known as Kaplan University. The Post Co.’s CEO has admitted, in now-revealed documents, that Kaplan U. used federal student loan funds and “predatory accounting” to jack up tuition costs to poor students.