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Archives for March 2018

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Space: The next trillion dollar industry.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Mad props to Judge Jeanine Pirro

Daily Show: Hasan Minhaj breaks down “punish a Muslim Day”.

Stephen launches a Facebook alternative.

Vox: US voting machines are failing and here’s why.

Samantha Bee: A message for Ted Cruz.

Stormy Sunday and the Naughty Dotard Трамп:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Adam ruins everything: The true messed up story of Pocahontas

Roll Call: Congressional Hits and Misses.

The veterans are running for Congress, as Democrats.

Out of control Chinese space station Expected to crash into earth Easter Sunday.

Vox: Why old buildings use the same leaf design

Trevor: An Alabama sheriff legally siphons cash from inmates

Marching for For Our Lives:

Mental Floss: Behind the scenes secrets of shopping malls.

Stephen: Jeff Sessions loves the secret Wu-Tang Clan album.

Slate: Why we need “queer”.

Francesca Fiorentini: Will social media destroy democracy?

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Passing judgment

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

Open Thread (The OT)

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I went home fairly early after Drinking Liberally last night. Nonetheless, I am feeling tired. So instead of a coherent post, I am just going to do the half-sleep on public transit thing. Talk among yourselves.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleStormy days, these. But you can find shelter at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. Stop by this evening for conversations over a drink.

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? Ok…then check out one of the 249 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

Open Thread

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So. Now we’ve seen the Stormy Daniels interview, does it add much? I think we all knew the outlines. I guess it’s good to hear it from her. I don’t care about an affair. And consensual sex is less gross than the sexual assault he has bragged about.

Campaign finance violations? Sure, probably. So blackmail possibilities from his careless behavior? Maybe. Hypocrisy of his religious supporters? Doy, but we already knew that.

HA Bible Study: Nahum 1:2-6

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Nahum 1:2-6
The Lord is a jealous God, filled with vengeance and rage. He takes revenge on all who oppose him and continues to rage against his enemies!

The Lord is slow to get angry, but his power is great, and he never lets the guilty go unpunished. He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.

At his command the oceans dry up, and the rivers disappear. The lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade, and the green forests of Lebanon wither.

In his presence the mountains quake, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed.

Who can stand before his fierce anger? Who can survive his burning fury? His rage blazes forth like fire, and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence.

Discuss.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen: Putin wins election (with some help from the Russians).

The week in Congressional hits and misses.

NASA: Astronaut Moments with NASA astronaut Drew Feustel.

Samantha Bee: The history of women’s pain.

WaPo: Audio and texts show how two men worked to discredit one of Roy Moore’s accusers.

Minute Physics: The brown dwarf debate.

Vox: Why female condoms are so hard to find.

The guy who won’t talk about politics.

The Dotard Трамп:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Redpilled—The Storm

Our Cartoon President: Who gets out to turn the jets on?
Our Cartoon President: Biparti-Satans busted!

Vox: Why eating healthily is so expensive in America.

Jimmy Kimmel: Happy 88th Birthday Pat Robertson.

Samantha Bee: The Iraq war, 15 years later.

Stephen works out with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Gunz in ‘Merica and the March for Our Lives:

Samantha Bee: All you get is birth control.

Trevor: Facebook fallout—Mark Zuckerberg rolls out an apology

Garfunkel and Oates: Both sides can laugh:

Adam ruins the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

Stephen: Mark Zuckerberg is silent smid Facebook’s privacy scandal.

Vox: Women are not as divided on #MeToo as it may seem.

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

Open Thread (today’s date)

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Shouldn’t the President know what’s in a spending bill before Fox News tells him? Honestly, the bill is probably a piece of shit, but it’s his fucking job to know what’s in it during negotiations. He has experts at his disposal; Don’t rely on a semi-fictional TV talk show.

Open Thread Today’s Date

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I have been listening to The History of English podcast, and it’s very strange for me to listen to a history podcast that’s still going. Usually I will binge a series once it’s done. Anyway, it has got to Edward I. The podcast hasn’t got there yet, but pretty soon, he is going to ban Jewish people from England.

As I was listening to this, I walked by Seattle Shakespeare. I see that The Merchant of Venice is coming up. It. Made me realize that the vast majority of people who the play was written for had never met anyone Jewish. It had been over 300 years, and yet the stereotypes were popularly understood.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleAccording to the data that we pilfered from Facebook and analyzed into a profile by our team of data scientists using the very latest in neural network-based AI, you need a damn drink! So stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally this evening and join us for conversations and/or rants over that drink.

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? Ok…then check out one of the 249 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

Open Thread

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At this point, any Republican who hasn’t actively denounced Donald Trump is trying to turn the US into a dictatorship. The McCabe firing means that a Muller firing is almost inevitable. At some point, a point that has almost certainly passed, anything but actively working against him is complicity.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: FAUX News gets a new slogan

WaPo: Phillis Wheatley’s existence was dangerous to an idea the U.S. was founded on.

Mental Floss: Everything you need to know about English and other languages!.

Joy Reid, Amber Ruffin, and Jenny Hagel: Diversity in Late Night at SXSW.

Vox: The guide book that helped black Americans travel during segregation.

Daily Show: Is facial recognition software racist?.

Samantha Bee: Cy Vance—Technically legal, Part 1.
Samantha Bee: Cy Vance—Technically legal, Part 2.

Rachel Maddow: New sanctions reveal Russian hacking of US energy infrastructure

Paradigms—How we know what we know: The science of seeing.

The Dotard Трамп And His White House Shit Show:

WaPo: These students are getting organized to fight gun violence.

John Oliver: Cryptocurrencies.

Vox: The ketogenic diet explained.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Who says conservatives can’t do comedy?7

Why the #MeToo moment is especially distressing for Muslim women.

WaPo: Why and how the U.S. is involved in the conflict in Yemen.

Daily Show: Disrupting the legal system with robots.

Bill Maher chats with Rep. Beto O’Rourke.

Seth Meyers: Political monologue.

Vox: Why we imagine aliens the way we do.

Trevor: Students walk out to protest gun violence

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

Open Thread 3-16-2018 AD

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I was recently cleaning out my closet, and I came across a pin I was given in October/ November 2001, when I was protesting the war in Afghanistan. On the one hand, it feels fucking futile. We’re still there, and people like John Fucking Bolton are still around along with team torture. On the other hand, it may be the protest I’m most proud of participating in. Just me and a couple Quakers on the street corner holding signs when the world had gone mad.

Open Thread

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Come the hell on, Microsoft (h/t).

When we talk about the worst in the nation gender pay gap in Seattle, often Boeing, Microsoft, and Amazon come up. As if manufacturing and tech just have to favor men. It doesn’t. It’s choices we make. It’s systematic discrimination in our largest companies, and down the line. It’s seeing 238 internal complaints and not doing anything.

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