– I already know what district I’m in but the Seattle District Map that Seattlish made is pretty great.
– It’s so rare to see killer cops actually prosecuted that it’s tough to know what to make of it.
Archives for May 2015
HA Bible Study: Deuteronomy 12:15-16
Deuteronomy 12:15-16
However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer. Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Discuss.
Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!
James Rustad: “I am Governor LePage”.
Helpful Dos and Don’ts for police officers
The 2016 Clown Parade:
- John Huntsman who won’t run for President (and why).
- Sam Seder: Ted Cruz wants everyone to know he’s still a hater (opposes equality).
- David Pakman: Ted Cruz says more crazy, ill-informed shit that seems to further disqualify him to be President
- Bush adviser says Jeb supports de-funding Planned Parenthood
- Sam Seder: Stand with Rand? Paul flip-flops on drones.
- Sam Seder: Rand Paul’s idiotic statement about Baltimore.
David Pakman: Where’s my apocalypse? Economic collapses are not happening in cities that raise minimum wage
Pap: Mitch McConnell wants to nullify the Constitution.
Forgotten assholes of history: The Brit who invented the Concentration Camp:
Sam Seder: FAUX News blames Obama for young people “trying” to join ISIS.
Baltimore Burning:
- Jon: CNN covers red carpet over Baltimore
- Sen. Reid on Baltimore
- Thom: Clueless white privilege meets the Baltimore revolt
- Young Turks: Why does the media use the word “thug”?
- David Pakman: You expect us to believe that Freddie Gray severed his own spinal cord?!?
- Richard Fowler: The death of Freddie Gray
- Young Turks: One idiotic Republican’s “theory” about what caused the riots
- Obama makes a statement on Baltimore
- David Pakman: The NRA is already lying about Baltimore
- Young Turks: How Freddie Gray died
- Jon explains everything wrong in Baltimore
- Pap: Poor police training is killing Americans
- Young Turks: Protests erupt at Freddie Gray’s funeral.
- David Pakman: Right wing’s Baltimore violence blame game
Sam Seder: Michele Bachmann is grateful Obama is bringing about “End times”.
David Pakman: Right-Wing lie that Obama is creating mostly low wage jobs is DEBUNKED.
The Daily Show: Getting Congress to “Fucking Cooperate”.
Same Sex Hypocrisy:
- Sam Seder: Anti-gay Republican discovered on Grindr.
- David Pakman: Surprise. Anti-gay Republican caught sending nude pics on Grinder.
Mental Floss: 25 towns that changed their name.
Nepal: Before and After.
White House: The Obama state china service.
Correspondents Dinner:
- Young Turks: Obama mocks critics and himself
- Cecily Strong does the White House correspondents’ dinner.
- Kids react to the WH Correspondence dinner
- Young Turks: Controversy over Obama’s “Anger Translator”.
- Obama’s socialist & birfer jokes come up every year
- Best WH Correspondence jokes of all time
David Pakman: Anti-Clinton author admits he has no evidence of wrongdoing.
Rep. Pelosi on the GOP bill to allow employers to control reproductive freedoms in D.C..
Mark Fiore: Commander-in-Drone.
Corruption is Legal in America:
James Rustad: “DEA Sex Party Song”.
Same Sex Marriage:
- David Pakman: Oregon’s anti-gay baker’s fundraising blocked…and they blame “Satan”
- Jon destroys anti-gay marriage arguments.
- David Pakman: Supreme Court divided on gay marriage as protester gets thrown out
- José Díaz-Balart: Same-sex couples await SCOTUS marriage ruling.
- WaPo: The gay marriage debate at the Supreme Court, explained
- Liberal Viewer: Same-sex marriage before SCOTUS
Mental Floss: Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Thom: The Good, The Bad, and the Very, Very, Petulcously Ugly!
Dancing dots show Congressional divide.
IAF: 10 facts about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Bernie Sanders declares:
- Sam Seder: Bernie is IN.
- David Pakman: Bernie Sanders is running
- Ed interviews Bernie
Greenman: Mike Mann on “hide the decline”.
Maddow: America’s new views on criminal justice.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I’m a Jolly Good Fellow (But a Mean Fisker)
So, my day job hasn’t changed, but after six months of working for Nick Hanauer I finally have something official to print on a business card: I am a Senior Fellow at Civic Ventures, a public policy incubator. (And if you’re wondering what makes me “senior,” it’s that I’m the only fellow old enough to qualify for AARP.)
Anyway, in addition to the new name, we also have a new blog—Civic Skunkworks—to which I proudly posted today the blog’s first fisking:
Tim Worstall not only has a byline at Forbes and a fellowship at the impressive-sounding Adam Smith Institute, he also spells “labour” with that fancy extra “u,” so he must be a smart guy who knows an awful lot about economics, right? But then you read his actual words and, well, not so much…
Watch Worstall plot a demand curve from a single data point, and then watch me tear him a new one. Enjoy!
Open Thread 5-1
– Baltimore Police Detain Numerous Residents Without Charge (also, you should really check out all of TWIB’s coverage of Baltimore, and maybe give them some money if you can)
– The need among Republican states to punish their poor is really disheartening.
– Oh hey, more Patty Murray being awesome.
– I don’t really like the lightening round questions in the candidate debates, but I guess when there’s a large field they may be necessary. Still, Godden should answer the questions.
– Maybe Okamoto should apologize to the citizens of King County for how the Port Of Seattle operated when he was chief administrative officer? No, that would be substance rather than decorum, so it’s not important to The Seattle Times.
