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RANDOM LINKS FOR 3/29/12
March 28th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

ap photo via newstimes.com

  • At the time of this writing, the Seattle Mariners are in first place as the winningest team in Major League Baseball! (This may be subject to change by the time you read this.)
  • In other sporting news, the Husky men’s basketball team valiantly lost its NIT semifinal game in overtime; thus tying for the status of this year’s 71st best college team.
  • You might be able to ski on the Fourth of July around here this year.
  • Two years in the making, the downtown Target is set to finally open on July 29.
  • Metro Transit’s downtown Ride Free Area ends two months after that.
  • Meanwhile, Washington’s first food-only Walmart store is about to open at an ex-Kmart site in Bellevue.
  • One-third of all homes sold in King County these days are sold for all cash (i.e., to speculators or rental operators).
  • An Army PR guy says Joint Base Lewis-McChord is “not having any issues that other Army bases aren’t having, too.”
  • This is from October but still fascinating—an in-depth look at the Columbia River, its watershed, its hydroelectric industry, its fishery, and the people who try to balance the needs of each.
  • Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon would really like you to know there really are non-wingnut Christians out there.
  • The rumored Apple-branded TV set is still just a rumor. But Farhad Manjoo at Slate reports that Microsoft’s XBox already brings the magic of online streaming-video search to TV sets.
  • Slate also has a fond remembrance to the inventor of the frozen bagel and a handy guide to Quebeçois cuss words.
  • Now we know why Bud, Miller, and Coors all sold out to foreigners. Light-beer sales are in a nosedive, perhaps a permanent one.
  • John Cassidy at the New Yorker claims the right-wing assault on health care reform, as seen this week at the Supreme Court, is “a very bad joke.”

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