Daffodil Day!
  • Art Kuniyuki for Pike Place Market PDA
  • Daffodil Day!

Today is Daffodil Day, which means that if you show up down at the Pike Place Market starting around 11:30 a.m., kids from Pike Place Market Childcare and Preschool will hand you a FREE FLOWER. ("Until they need to return in time for lunch and nap," says the press release.) All in all, some 12,000 daffodils are to be handed out in downtown Seattle today around the lunch hour in various locations—including, at City Hall, by Jean Godden and Nick Licata. Go get one! Spring!

In other flower news: A New Hampshire woman is being sued for planting flowers in her yard.

Occupy returns to Zuccotti: And Bloomberg's response is, "You want to get arrested? We’ll accommodate you.”

The latest abortion bill madness: A bill in Tennessee that would make abortion providers' names public.

The result of an Israeli attack on Iran? Regional war and dead Americans, according to a recent U.S. simulation.

Saudis boosting oil exports: In order to try to calm the markets.

Justice Department opens criminal investigation: Into the Florida shooting of an unarmed, 17-year-old African American teenager.

Liquor privatization: Upheld, and probably headed to the state supreme court.

What leaving Congress now will cost Jay Inslee: His $174,000-a-year salary and his shot at lifetime health care coverage as a federal employee. But! Not his pension:

Inslee will qualify for his full $44,000 annual congressional pension when he turns 62 in February, meaning he could pull down a total of more than $210,000 a year if he moves into the governor's mansion in Olympia.

Speaking of health care: Introducing the 1942 case that will be at the center of next week's U.S. Supreme Court fight over the legality of Obama's health care reform law, Wickard v. Filburn.