Archives for July 2018

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of conversations over a drink. By now, we’ve gotten our Washington primary ballots in the mail, so some discussion will arise over local politics….

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

Can’t make it to Seattle? There are 252 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

There’s a part of me that’s still upset RKCNDY isn’t a music venue. I was pissed when I came back from college and it wasn’t a thing anymore. I still walk by where the Velvet Elvis and King Cat theater were, and there’s a nostalgic twang for past shows. If the Showbox goes away, I’ll probably feel the same about it.

But, there will be new venues. The show will go on, even if it goes on somewhere else.

Matthew 21:18-19
Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.

Discuss.

Late Show: California’s wine is showing traces of radioactivity.

Seth and Amy: Really! James Comey’s warning for Democrats.

WaPo: What you need to know about Jim Jordan.

Stephen examines the conservative “walk away” memes.

Vox: How not to get phished (like the DNC).

Daily Show: Staten Island has a serious deer problem

Jim Jefferies: How to offset your Amazon guilt.

Minute Physics: The physics of caramel

Mark Fiore: The Endangered Species Academy

Samantha Bee: The spy who loved the NRA

Roy Wood Jr.: CP Time on government conspiracies

Physics Girl: Sunscreen in UV.

The Very Promiscuous Dotard Трамп And His Fawning Disciples:

• Stephen: Eric Holder says the Helsinki summit was collusion in plain sight
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп on tape—The complete collection of Cohen’s secret recordings
• Trevor: Trump’s favorite problems to fix are the ones he created
• Seth Meyers: Трамп avoids reporters and lies about his tariffs
• Our Cartoon President: We all have shitty marriages
• Ari Melber: Трамп denies bombshell claim that he approved Трамп tower meeting
• WaPo: After trusting Cohen for years, Трамп now thinks he has no credibility
• Stephen breaks down Michael Cohen’s recording of Трамп
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп reportedly “furious” at Michael Cohen
• Jimmy Kimmel interviews the Dotard Трамп’s Thumbs
• Stephen: Jake Tapper reacts to the White House banning a CNN reporter
• Lauren Mayer: Are we there yet?:

• Samantha Bee: Comedians in cars with dissidents getting coffee
• Rachel Maddow: Lynchpin of all Dotard Трамп financial matters subpoenaed in Cohen case
• Stephen: Don’t even try to out stupid Dotard Трамп
• WaPo: Why hundreds of migrant children are still separated from their parents
• Trevor: The Трамп PP (Playboy payoff) tape is OUT!
• Jimmy Fallon: Tweets with Beats–Трамп on secret Cohen tapes and collusion
• Stephen: Jake Tapper on how it’s unpatriotic to obstruct the Russia probe
• Ari Melber: Трамп vs bald eagles—Inside a push to gut laws protecting animals
• James Corden: We have the Трамп-Cohen tapes you haven’t heard yet
• Late Show: Other childish ways Трамп engages in foreign policy
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s star destroyed
• Katy Tur: The Dotard Трамп/Michael Cohen face off
• Our Cartoon President: Трамп and Putin watch shark week
• Stephen: Трамп predicts Russians will meddle in the midterms for Democrats!
• Seth Meyers: Michael Cohen releases his secret Трамп tape
• Trevor: The Dotard J. Трамп Presidential Twitter Library
• Ari Melber: U.S. election security suffers for lack of oval office leadership
• Our Cartoon President: “It wasn’t Dotard who made love to Stormy”
• Stephen: Dotard Трамп’s ALL CAPS approach to foreign policy
• Jimmy Kimmel: EXCLUSIVE audio of Michael Cohen’s conversation with Dotard Трамп
• Stephen: Трамп whines “This never happened to Obama”
• Seth Meyers: Late Night White House press briefing, “When was the last time you told the truth?”
• Stephen: John Dickerson, “It’s a big deal that Dotard Трамп lies
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп News Network—Twitter war with Iran
• Late Show: The video that goes with Cohen’s audio recording of Трамп
• Samantha Bee: Wait, what was Watergate again?

• Stephen: The Special Counsel is following Трамп’s Twitter
• Ari Melber: Трамп former lawyer on finance chief subpoena—He knows everything
• Chris Hayes: Paul Manafort spent $18K on karaoke setup in Hamptons House
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Трамп/Cohen tape sounds like a mob movie
• James Comey: “I’m Really Concerned” about Трамп’s attacks on FBI
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Cohen is prepared to assert to Mueller that Трамп knew about 2016 Трамп tower meeting
• Trevor: Трамп takes a stand against…endangered species?
• Stephen: Our President says don’t believe what you see and read
• Seth Meyers: Betsy DeVos’ rollback of civil rights
• Late Show: Another Michael Cohen audio recording
• Ari Melber and friends: How Трамп catalyzed the resistance
• Jimmy Fallon: Jimmy leaks brand-new Трамп–Cohen tapes
• Stephen: Michael McFaul was part of Putin’s “crazy” offer to Трамп

Real Engineering: The truth about hydrogen.

Rachel Maddow: Claire McCaskill ID’d as first 2018 target of Russian hackers.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

Chris Hayes: Russia intel agency tried to hack Senator Claire McCaskill.

Jonathan Mann: Fuck you Panos, libraries are the best.

New Scientist: Heatwave could last for months.

Vox: Why there’s a ring of natural disasters around the Pacific.

Trevor with Annie Lowrey: “Give people money” and the case for a universal basic income.

Michelle Wolf: Pledge of allegiance.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Jim Jefferies: Diversity in comics makes bigots mad.

Nova: Liquid water found on Mars.

Stephen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is traumatizing to conservatives.

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

It kind of sucks how much the mayor wants to kill a street car expansion. Metro seems to be committed to half empty buses in exurbia. Maybe that’s a reasonable idea maybe it isn’t. But Seattle should figure out ways to get people around. And once the stretch of track is laid, you can’t move it.

You can’t blame every heat wave on global warming. But it is to hot. And Seattle is going to have more of these. Ugh. I feel especially strange wearing short sleeves to work. At least I am not buying an air conditioner.

To our friends and acquaintances: JOIN US FOR OUR WEEKLY MEETING OF THE SEATTLE CHAPTER OF DRINKING LIBERALLY. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO BE THERE. SO STOP THE THREATS AND JUST SHOW UP!

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

Can’t make it to Seattle? There are 253 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.

I know that Twitter can’t kick Trump off its platform permanently as long as he is the President. But! Surely a 12 hour ban after he threatens war with Iran. I mean some consequences are surely in order.

Exodus 21:28
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

Discuss.

The Atlantic: Life lessons—Everything is temporary.

Vox: How your split ends can help clean oil spills

John Oliver: Lost graphics, Vol. 3.

Trevor celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday.

WaPo: A 50-year-old photo mystery.

Eric Schwartz: I don’t know (A Sadly Topical Blues):

Stephen with Rep. Joe Kennedy III: House Republicans are doing nothing.

Jim Jefferies: Is America REALLY number one?

Vox: How 156 years of British rule shaped Hong Kong.

Mental Floss: The surprising history of Las Vegas and the Rat Pack!.

Now this World: Nelson Mandela’s legacy in South Africa today.

Trevor: Barack Obama’s Mandela address and world emoji day.

WaPo: Technology and luck—how cold cases are solved

Treasonous Трамп And His Tumultuous Treachery:

• Jimmy Kimmel: NRA Infiltrated by Russians?
• Stephen interviews Sean Hannity’s interview of The Dotard Трамп
• Rachel Maddow: New dots connect Mariia Butina case to K.T. McFarland and Mike Flynn
• Rachel Maddow: Sally Yates—W.H. knew flynn was under investigation…
• Seth Meyers: GOP refuses to hold Трамп accountable on Russia
• Trevor: The Putin plot thickens with an alleged Russian spy
• Late Show: Let’s all go to the summit!
• Ari Melber: NRA-linked Russian charged with being foreign agent
• Stephen: Kirstjen Nielsen doesn’t think Russia meddled to help Трамп
• Young Turks: Трамп gets TRIGGERED!
• Mark Fiore: Doubly negative.
• Jimmy Kimmel: Queen Elizabeth threw major shade at The Dotard
• Samantha Bee: Здравствуйте to our new mother Russia
• Seth Meyers: Katy Tur got Трамп to answer a question about Russia by complimenting him first
• SuperDeluxe: The Dotard Трамп doesn’t see why it would/wouldn’t be Russia
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Could The Dotard Трамп’s tax returns explain Helsinki performance?
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп News Network—Putin summit
• Our Cartoon President: The Трамп–Putin press conference

• Late Show: The first interview with Трамп’s translator
• Jonathan Mann: If you don’t bow down to Vladimir and Don
• Trevor: British journalists get Трампed for the first time
• Rachel Maddow: Plenty for Congress to do if it wants to deal with The Dotard Трамп crisis
• Stephen: Was Helsinki a “top-three” worst moment of Трамп’s presidency?
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s royal protocol breaches
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Vladimir Putin made a big mistake in his presser with The Dotard.
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп lies about would & wouldn’t
• Ali Velshi: “I have the best words”
• Rachel Maddow: Трамп admin waffles on standing up for Americans against Putin
• Ari Melber: FAUX News defends Трамп’s Russian media gaffe after criticizing it
• Trevor: Трамп blames his Putin summit debacle on a slip of the tongue
• Stephen: Finally there is bipartisan agreement—Трамп Blew It
• Michele Wolf: ICE Is:

• Vox: A surreal moment in US politics
• Jimmy Kimmel: Imagine FAUX News coverage if Obama supported Putin
• Michelle Wolf: Segment Time
• Late Show: The fly on the wall at the Трамп-Putin meeting
• Sam Seder: The Dotard Трамп should be terrified of new Cohen bombshell
• Stephen: Трамп walks back his “would” for a “wouldn’t”
• Rachel Maddow: Time for Americans to face “worst case scenario” on Treasonous Трамп
• Seth Meyers: Republicans fall in line after Трамп–Putin summit
• WaPo: Democrat vets in Congress slam Трамп’s Helsinki meeting
• Trevor: Трамп doing a bad thing publicly doesn’t make it better
• Our Cartoon President: Full episode 11
• Ari Melber: Rep. Lieu, Трамп-Putin summit a “obscene, disgraceful” moment in history
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп Derangement Syndrome
• Seth Meyers: Трамп Derangement Syndrome, et al.
• Stephen: What do you mean Трамп and Putin are meeting again?
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Senate decided in 3 minutes to rebuke The Dotard
• Samantha Bee: Goodbye, Roe v. Wade
• Ali Velshi: Is The Dotard Трамп committing treason?
• Jonathan Mann: Maria Butina is a (GOP + NRA) Russian spy
• Late Show: Double negative junction
• Jimmy Kimmel: The Трамп/Putin summit
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп changes one word. What about the rest?
• Stephen: Maria Butina, the Russia agent, had a Republican boyfriend
• Rob Reiner demands Трамп meets with Mueller:

• Trevor: Трамп’s U.K. visit unites the British
• Rachel Maddow: Butina case raises questions on Russia’s role in Rex W. Tillerson
• Seth Meyers: Трамп meets Putin and Melania’s yellow dress
• Ari Melber: Трамп stands by embrace of Putin, says he misspoke one word
• Stephen with Lewis Black: Reclaiming the summer from Трамп

Vox: We produce 13 tons of hazardous waste every second

Minute Physics: Feynman’s lost lecture on planetary orbits.

Whoopi Goldberg OWNS FAUX News host.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

WaPo: A key innovation in how we use the pill today.

Vox: Road diets—designing a safer street.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

Wendover: How airports make money

Stephen: The NRA-linked Russian spy who isn’t The Dotard Трамп.

Vox: The (mostly) true story of hobo graffiti.

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

Your ballot should be coming soon if it’s not already in the mail. Is there any election you’re looking forward to? I will be interested to see how the 8th District shakes out. What are you excited about? Anyway, get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by August 7.

Where are the gun nuts after the government started kidnapping children?

I mean they have been saying for years that they need to assemble an arsenal to avoid a tyrannical government. Some of them even formed a militia. And then they hear news that that same government has separated thousands of children from their parents. The government is missing court deadlines to fix the problem.

If their argument had been anything but complete bullshit, they would surely be at detention facilities. I don’t think that guns are the way to make political change in a democracy, but they do. Probably has something to do with the fact that they happily voted for a fascist President in the first place.

Please join us at the weekly “summit” of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. No treason and no collusion…just a little beverage perfusion.

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

Can’t make it to Seattle? There are 253 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.

So. Trump and Putin met. Hopefully it will prove at least as successful as the meeting with Kim. Maybe instead of an Elton John CD, they traded a DVD of the peepee tape.

1 Corinthians 10:20
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

Discuss.