Archives for June 2017

Please join us this evening for some chat (*ahem*) Sessions over a drink at this weeks episode of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Stop by and offer your two percent (on income above $250,000 if you file as single or $500,000 if filing jointly).

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 234 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

How late does drunk singing on the bus become OK? If you want to say never, that’s probably correct. But I was on a late night bus over the weekend, and a drunk couple were singing their hearts out to a song I didn’t recognize. It was more charming than obnoxious. But if that had been rush hour on a Tuesday, it would have been horrible. Maybe it’s more of a continuum, slowly becoming less bad as the night progresses, than a switch.

Ezekiel 23:8
She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

Discuss.

Three congressional special elections to watch this year.

Mental Floss: 39 facts about poets.

#ComeyDay:

• Comey Testifies: The full hearing.
• Stephen: Comey attack ads inspire Stephen to create his own
• Seth Meyers: Comey’s opening statements and Трамп’s Tweets
• PsychoSuperMom: Comeymania:

• Late Show: James Comey’s testimony featuring Stephen
• CNN’s Comey week, 2017!
• Bill Maher: Too stupid to be President.
• Late Show: Comey enters the Thunderdome.
• Conan: Трамп vents to Putin about Comey
• Seth Meyers: James Comey testifies and says Трамп lies.
• Olbermann: What we now know from James Comey.
• Full Frontal: 50 Shades of Comey
• Stephen digs into Comey’s opening statement.
• Trevor: Comey takes the stand (but leaves the juicy details behind)
• Conan: Republicans are workshopping their Comey response
• Stephen: Guess who’s Comey to dinner?

• The President Show: Трамп responds to Comey.
• Vox: The US government cannot be trusted so long as Donald Trump runs it
• Seth Meyers: James Comey’s Senate Intelligence Committee testimony
• Seven takeaways from James Comey’s written statement.

Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought.

Jordan Klepper solves guns with Sen. Cory Booker.

Трамп is Russian for “Corrupt as Fuck”:

• Stephen: Jeff Sessions leaked letter of resignation
• Olbermann: Did Трамп himself meet with the Russian ambassador?
• Jimmy Kimmel: Sean Spicer is VERY upset with Donald Трамп
• Is being blocked by Трамп on Twitter an attack on free speech?
• Stephen: Cartoon Трамп can’t stop Tweeting
• Samantha Bee: The “War on Drugs” reboot.
• Keeping track of #NotNormal
• The President Show: Nice! Not nice — A professional Khan artist
• Stephen: Like father, like son. Eric Trump does something awful
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп nominates FBI director and other Трамп news.
• Trevor: Why is Eric Трамп like THIS?
• Jim Jefferies Show: The Трампs visit the Israeli holocaust museum
• Stephen: Country for sale.
• Samantha Bee: Keep calm and ignore Трамп’s tweets.
• Kimmel: Putin reveals damaging information about Трамп.
• Bill Maher: Save the rich fucks
• Roy Zimmerman: The Don:

• What is obstruction of justice?
• Seth Meyers: Трамп picks fights on Twitter, pisses off world
• What Трамп should have said.
• Трамп vacancies
• Stephen: Stephen finally gets to Covfefe about Covfefe
• Jonathan Mann: Lordy, I hope there’re tapes.
• WaPo fact checks White House bullshit about 50,000 new coal jobs
• Trevor: Трамп touts more phony accomplishments.
• Stephen: The Трамп administration gets a ‘reality’ check

David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: How appropriations is supposed to work.

Seth Meyers: Political monologue.

Ossoff slams Handle on Трампcare.

Full Frontal: Just say no to drug test kits.

Climate Catastrophe:

• Climate change is less than ideal
• Late Show: Aquaman applauds Трамп’s Paris agreement decision
• John Oliver: Paris agreement

VOX: What happens when you treat health care like a soap opera.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

(I promise I’ll get back to politics at some point, but here’s more inane nonsense)

I was walking through the park and a man walking the other way started talking to me. Now I’m wearing headphones because I have something I’d rather do than talk to some stranger. Also, It’s Seattle, and we have a culture of keeping to ourselves, that I appreciate. But fine. I took my headphones off and started listening to him.

“You have long hair.”

I was aware. It wasn’t cool hair or cut your hair, hippie. Just a statement of fact that he knew that I knew.

I walked by a building the on the way to Drinking Liberally, and I noticed that the name of it was written in cursive. People aren’t being taught cursive in a lot of schools. It’s a decision I generally support, so this isn’t a getoffmylawn post.

I wonder how long until most people find that building indecipherable. It’ll probably get painted over long before that. It made me wonder what I walk by that I don’t notice that everyone would have understood 50, 100 whatever years ago.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally was founded in early 2005, and has been meeting weekly ever since. Please join us tonight for a drink, some political conversation and, if you wish, some dinner.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 231 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

There is a crow’s nest in the tree across from my apartment. They must have just had a chick, because they’re aggressively dive-bombing people. Over the weekend, I saw that avian asshole attack 2 people so much that they ran away. Fortunately, they haven’t gone after me yet. But others have. I feel like they’re more aggressive than usual this year, but I don’t know.

Numbers 22:29
Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.”

Discuss.

Jimmy Dore chats with Bill-O-The-Clown about Roger Ailes.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Sam Seder: The grotesque Трампcare graph Paul Ryan doesn’t want you to see.

Traveler Трамп and Company:

• Трамп’s sun.
• The President Show: Трамп screams at the TV.
• David Pakman: Трамп exempts his whole staff from ethics rules!
• Jimmy Kimmel gets to the bottom of covfefe.
• Sam Seder and Digby: Трамп’s overseas trip shows he lacks strength & stamina for the job
• Samantha Bee: Covfefe, Kushner & an idiot abroad
• Olbermann: Has Michael Flynn already flipped on Трамп?
• David Pakman: Трамп plans to return diplomatic compounds to Russia
• Late Show: Post cards from Donald Трамп
• The Daily Show: Based on a typo:

• The world searches for the meaning of covfefe
• Joy Reid: Why Donald Трамп gave up “Leader of the free world”.
• WaPo fact checks Трамп’s NATO rhetoric
• David Pakman: About half of Трамп’s Twitter followers are fake
• Leaked video of Sean Spicer’s “covfefe” press conference
• Young Turks: Jeff Sessions’s rolling snowball of lies keeps growing
• Ari Melber: Donald Трамп attacks birth control amid scandal circus distraction
• Trevor: Трамп abroad—oh, the places those tiny hands will go!
• Bill Maher: Constant Covfefe
• ТрампCare: Redefining health
• Kimmel: Drunk Donald Трамп — Sicily Trip
• Robert Reich: Seven reasons Трамп’s corporate tax cuts make no sense
• The President Show: Interview with S.E. Cupp
• Olbermann: The GOP must take responsibility for Трамп.
• Trevor: Трамп tells the earth to go fuck itself.
• David Pakman: Why does Трамп lie to his own supporters?
• Трамп can’t fill posts in his sadministration
• Ezra Klein: Donald Трамп is destroying his own presidency
• Sexy readings of Трамп Tweets
• PsychoSuperMom: There ain’t enough covfefe in the world to make this funny
• Randy Rainbow: Donald Трамп’s MANGO TOUR!

• Trevor: The truth about “covfefe” and Трамп’s propaganda machine
• Samantha Bee: Who will be Трамп’s John Dean?
• David Pakman: Трамп asks world leaders to call him on his cell phone.
• Olbermann: Shouldn’t Jared Kushner be arrested?
• James Corden: Let’s Join the FBI in Scrutinizing Jared Kushner
• Farron CousinsNobody wants to work for Трамп’s disastrous administration
• David Pakman: Трамп White House will take away birth control from millions
• Sam Seder: Sean Spicer actually pretends covfefe was secret code, everyone laughs at him
• Jonathan Mann: Трамп’s Trip.

VOX: How the media’s weapons fetish primes us for war.

How to eat pudding in space.

Samantha Bee: Gianforte body-slammed the vote.

Sam Seder: Dipshit Rick Santorum (debating Jennifer Granholm) says the Sun is “not reliable, not consistent”.

Warming Globe:

• What you need to know about the Paris Agreement on climate change.
• Young Turks: Mike Pence can’t understand why people care about climate change
• The President Show: Screw science! Bye-bye, Paris:

• Kimmel on Трамп pulling out of the Paris accord.
• Josh Willis: Reversing climate change with geoengineering?
• VOX: Flying over the melting arctic made climate change feel much more urgent.

Samantha Bee: An interview with Al Franken.

Bill Maher: New Rule—get low.

Young Turks: Remember when Ted Nugent threatened Obama?

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

I’ve been trying to cut down on my time on the Internet. Not a complete shut down, but just not faffing around. Anyway. Turns out that I am once again writing some nonsense from the bus rather than having written anything in advance. Sorry, but it might be better for me.