Archives for April 2022

I went to Art Walk yesterday. There was some interesting art, but I want to talk about masks.

I don’t understand how in some places everyone was masked up, and in others hardly anyone did. One had a sign saying that masks were still required, but even in several galleries that didn’t, everyone, or almost everyone was masked. In another, it was maybe a quarter. Presumably it’s the same people going from one gallery to the next.

I really love the vibe of Art Walk. That kind of free fun in old, cramped Pioneer Square buildings. I have been going since I was a kid. But the last couple years learning about disease spread, and COVID-19 in particular, I think I’ll keep the mask for a while.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

Sorry I missed Monday’s thread. Anyway…

Man, if anything can unite drivers, bicycle riders, bus riders, and walkers it’s fuck those jerks blocking the box. Seriously, they think they’re being soooo goddam smart. Like congratulations on getting 3 feet closer to your destination while fucking things over for everyone else during rush hour.

So, yeah. Fuck those dipshits. Enforce the rules on them. Instead of being angry, we can smile at the fines they’ll get. Much more satisfying than honking or giving them the finger (although obvi, you can do both).

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And if you aren’t vaccinated or boosted, get on it.

It’s Tuesday. And you know what that means. The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets for an evening of politics and pints.

The Seattle chapter of DL meets every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm out on the back patio.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place. If you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Amber Ruffin: Calling bullshit—White supremacy edition

Honest Ads: If insurance companies were honest

Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I went to Texas and I got COVID♬

John Oliver: Harm reduction

Jon Stewart and friends: Racism and resource guarding

Al Franken with Marc Lamont Hill: Critical Race Theory—An ACTUAL explanation

The Degenerate and Deplorable Disciples of The Dotard Трамп:

• J-L Cauvin: Трамп’s Georgia speech to “save” America
• Tommy Campbell: Mike Lindell the lawyer and Asian Ted Cruz are hilarious
• Seth Meyers: Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R—Deplorableville) says House colleagues hold orgies and do cocaine
• Shawn Farash: Трамп’s APRIL FOOLS endorsement!
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Ted Cruz, Jackassery Personified ♬
• MeidasTouch: Ted Cruz BLASTED for his most hypocritical comment yet!
• Stephen: Why is Трамп hiding his Jan 6th phone records?
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Hidin’ who he telephoned ♬:

• The Daily Show: Next on CSPAN3—The GOP Farm Subsidies and Orgy Committee
• Alex Wagner and Ari Melber: Congress play Трамп aide’s on-air confession at his contempt vote
• Samantha Bee: Mick Mulvaney joins CBS News as paid political commentator
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Ginni Thomas’s texts are “shocking” says Clarence Thomas biographer
• The Late Show: This is who Трамп called during the Capitol insurrection
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Rush Limbaugh is still dead ♬
• LegalEagle: Can Kyle Rittenhouse sue everyone who called him a murderer?
• Trevor: Meet Madison Cawthorn—Faker, creeper, lawmaker
• J-L Cauvin: Трамп’s January 6th missing phone calls EXPOSED
• Ari Melber: Secret plot busted—Clarence Thomas’ wife faces pressure to testify
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ When I’m invited to Washington sex parties ♬
• MeidasTouch: Трамп cover-up EXPOSED!
• Seth Meyers: Judge says Трамп coup likely a crime, and Ginni Thomas and Ted Cruz implicated
• Liberal Redneck: Трамп’s January 6th burner phones
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Will Smith attacking Chris Rock
• Samantha Bee: New evidence from the January 6th investigation continues not to disappoint
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ A Song for Ginni Thomas ♬:

• The Daily Show: The FAUX News spicy pizza scandal
• Lawrence O’Donnell: “Illegality of the plan was obvious,” says Judge
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Seven Hours and Thirty Seven Minutes (Mystery of the Missing Call Log) ♬
• Ali Velshi: Judge dings The Dotard in ruling for January 6 Committee
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard CRUSHES April Fool’s Day
• Stephen: Ginni Thomas’s texts to meadows are full of B-movie quotes and conspiracy theories
• MeidasTouch: Republicans vote to kill Americans
• Seth Meyers: https://youtu.be/MtqgrG7oWJwOrgies, cocaine and burner phones consume the GOP thanks to Cawthorn and The Dotard
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Dotard Трамп got a hole in one ♬

Trevor: The housing crisis

Jon Stewart and friends: Taking responsibility for systemic racism

The Late Show: Jane Krakowski celebrates great-ish women of history

Vice News: What Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson represents for Black women

Samantha Bee: What recent HBCU bomb threats say about the state of racism in America

Jimmy Kimmel: This month in COVID history

Al Franken with Dalia Lithwick: Jackson SCOTUS hearings

Robert Reich: Here’s what it’s like having $100 billion vs. $1 billion

Jon Stewart: The problem with White people

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

Oh hey, Governor Inslee signed the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s and People’s Alert law. I suppose that we all knew this would happen when it passed both Houses of the Legislature unanimously. Still, it’s good that it’s official. I hope that it helps.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you aren’t yet.