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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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LobbyWOW! It’s like a bribe, but 100% legal!

Mental Floss: 37 bizarre podcasts.

Jimmy Dore: Political news jokes of the week.

The 2016 Clown Debacle:

Inside the Capitol dome facelift.

White House: West Wing Week.

Seth Meyers: Voter ID laws…a closer look.

John Oliver: International Women’s Day.

Friday #hottakes.

PsychoSuperMom: The Religious Right is Neither.

GOP Obstruction of Justice:

Sam Seder: Dennis Miller isn’t funny.

TestTube News: How powerful is the Black vote?

Thom: How to reduce gun-related deaths in America by 80%.

Minute Physics: Transporters and quantum teleportation.

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

Election night discussion thread

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I’ll try to offer some commentary throughout the evening, but the real fun will be in the comment thread….

Lil’ Marco has “suspended” his campaign after losing his home state of Florida.

What’s with this “We are ‘suspending’ the campaign” bullshit. “We” are not. You (singular) are. “Suspend” is a weasel word. Why can’t these weasels tell it like it is: “I’m quitting”, “I am dropping out of the race”, “I surrender to Mr. Drumpf”.

Oh…that’s right. They’re fucking weasels.

7:48: While Cruz is giving his “victory” speech, CNN updates the vote totals and Cruz goes from 1st place to 2nd place.

8:40 Carl Ballard commentary on the GOP primary: [fart noises]

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

Join us on this sub-Super Tuesday for an election watching party at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. Voters go to the polls in five states (FL, IL, MO, NC, and OH) and Republicans caucus on one island entity (Northern Mariana Islands). For Republicans, the presidential primary outcome is “winner take all” in all but the IL and NC primaries. We’ll have election results on the TV.

We meet tonight and 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. We start at 8:00pm, but feel free to join us early to watch election returns.





Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight, the Tri-Cities and Vancouver, WA chapters meet. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma, Bremerton, and Spokane, chapters meet. Finally, on Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

There are 178 chapters of Living Liberally, including twenty in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find—or go out and start—a chapter near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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A brief history of cell phones on Capitol Hill.

Minute Physics: The limb of the sun.

Sorry Mitch.

Matthew Filipowicz: Rick Snyder wants taxpayer money for Flint water crisis legal fees:

Stephen: Late Night Wheel of News.

What is dark money and how does it influence elections?

Jim Earl: Antonin Scalia remembered with a moving obituary.

Stephen: Bernie only smoked pot twice?!?

White House: West Wing Week.

The 2016 Clowning Inferno:

Explaining politics to a drunk: superdelegates, candidates, etc.

Mental Floss: 23 facts about U.S. cash.

Jim Earl: Oregon terrorist Lavoy Finicum remembered with obituary.

James Corden: Idaho politics is as weird as it gets.

Who made it okay to hate Muslims?

Songify the News: Bernie and Hillary have a sing-off:

Why is America’s water infrastructure failing?

Congressional hits and misses.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

It isn’t quite Super Tuesday, but is is another interesting Tuesday for a watching party at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. Republicans and Democrats have primaries in Michigan and Mississippi. Republicans vote in an Idaho primary and caucus in Hawaii. Overseas Democrats get a chance to vote as well.

We meet tonight and 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. We start at 8:00pm, but feel free to join us before that for the election returns.



Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight, the Federal Way, Tri-Cities and Redmond chapters meet. And on Thursday, the Kent and Bremerton chapters meet.

There are 177 chapters of Living Liberally, including twenty in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find—or go out and start—a chapter near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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How does money influence U.S. elections?

Nightly Show: Planning a plantation wedding.

Obama debunks GOP “alternate reality” on economy.

The 2016 Clown Slugfest:

Hillary Clinton’s Lena Dunham strategy.

Jon Connor and Keke Palmer: “Fresh Water for Flint”.

Mental Floss: 26 facts about the science of friendship.

White House: West Wing Week.

Seth Meyers: A close look at a Texas abortion case.

Thom and Farron Cousins: How can an entire party reject the reality of climate change?

Sam Seder: MI officials call for Gov. Rick Snyder to resign over Flint water disaster.

Super Tuesday!

Thom: The Good, the Bad & the Very, Very Coadunately Ugly!

Nightly Show: Keep it 100%–Black History Month edition.

David Pakman: Clanence Thomas speaks for first time in a decade.

Farron Cousins: Court agrees…Bill-O-The-Clown is a horrible person.

Does giving up privacy keep us safe from terrorism?

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

Super Tuesday Discussion Thread

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There will be lots of election results coming in today. Here is a thread to discuss ’em. Note that this is NOT an open thread. If you want to engage in baby talk, poo flinging, or non-election discussions, kindly take it to the previous thread.

Unfortunately, I have an afternoon and evening packed with non-blogging stuff, so I’ll update this post when I can.

Here are the poll closing times tonight:

  • 4:00pm PST: Georgia, Vermont, Virginia
  • 5:00pm PST: Alabama, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, most of Texas
  • 5:30pm PST: Arkansas
  • 6:00pm PST: A bit of W. Texas

And here are the Caucus starting times tonight:

  • 11:00am PST: American Samoa (D)
  • 5:00pm PST: Minnesota (D & R)
  • 6:00pm PST: Colorado (D)
  • 9:00pm PST: Alaska (R)

6:45: Don’t forget American Samoa…where Clinton won four delegates.

6:48: Clueless Mr. Drumpf: “I don’t know if Hillary will be allowed to run!” What…did Hillary start a scam “university” or something?

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join tonight for a Super Tuesday election watching party at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and 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. We start at 8:00pm, but feel free to join us before that for the election returns.



Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Long Beach, Tri-Cities and West Seattle chapters also meet tonight. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.

There are 177 chapters of Living Liberally, including twenty in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find—or go out and start—a chapter near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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What are basic human rights?

How is this a thing? Whitewashing.

Jimmy Dore: Bizarre Don Quixote lie & why Richard Dreyfus was stunned

Thom: Why are Republicans so vexed over Gitmo?

The 2016 Clown Show:

Minute Physics: How do we know what air is like on other planets?

What is a rigged economy?

Obama is still trying to close Gitmo.

Seth Meyers: A closer look at Bernie Sander’s “Democratic Socalism”.

The Church for people who are “Spiritual, but not religious”.

Obstruction of Justice:

Seattle police release video of Che Taylor shooting.

Nikki & Dan Savage do politics.

Stephen’s wish list for Hillary.

John Oliver: Abortion laws.

For those who need help getting to the polls….

A moment with Triumph The Insult Comic Dog.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us tonight for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and 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. We start at 8:00pm.




Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. On Wednesday, the Burien chapter and the state’s newest chapter, the North Spokane chapter, meets. Finally, the Kent and Woodinville chapters meet on Thursday.

There are 177 chapters of Living Liberally, including twenty in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find—or go out and start—a chapter near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Bernie and Hillary supporters kiss and make up.

Mental Floss: 37 ways you might be weird.

Stephen: Cory Booker talks what it means to be united.

What happens if the presidential election was a tie?

The 2016 Konservative Klown Kavalcade:

Stephen: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is now an Incisive-Political-Humor Dog.

Buy food ethically unless it is too hard.

Why are so many Mexican journalists being murdered?

WaPo: Journalism in peril.

Obstructing Justice:

NASA: Celebrating African American History Month.

Bill Maher: For the love of bud.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about sports.

Young Turks: Democratic town halls versus Republican town halls.

Jimmy Dore: Apple, Trump, Cruz and other bad apples.

FBI versus Apple:

White House: West Wing Week.

Does the President really need Air Force One?

David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: What is Regular Order?:

David Pakman: January was the warmest January on record.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

Please join us tonight for an evening of political pontification and revelry over the beverage of your choice at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and 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. We start at 8:00pm.




Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Shelton chapters also meet. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma, Bremerton, and Spokane, chapters meet.

There are 188 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.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Seth Meyers: A Closer Look at Martin Shkreli and pharmaceutical price gouging.

Young Turks: Is Henry Kissinger a war criminal?

Obama’s Weekly Address: State of American politics.

David Pakman: MI Republicans “fix” flint water crisis by outlawing anal sex.

Farron Cousins: Have the Koch brothers finally been caught?

2016 Kkkraaaaazy Kkklown Show

Five crazy facts about lobbyists.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about the wild west.

Young Turks: Oregon standoff ends; Cliven Bundy arrested.

Test Tube News: Should governments pay a basic income?

New Hampshire:

White House: West Wing Week.

Oregon siege ends.

Jimmy Dore: Dowd, Trump, Fiorina, Steinem & other jokes

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Jamila Woods: White Privilege II.

#MakeValentinesDayGreatAgain: Presidential Candidate V-Day Cards.

Thom: The Good, The Bad & The Very Very Brockedly Ugly!

Mental Floss: 26 facts about the science of love.

Minute Physics: Concrete does not dry out.

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

Democratic Debate Open Thread

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I’m at the Roanoke Tavern this evening with a couple of friends to watch the debate (starts at 6pm local). Please join us if you wish. Otherwise, join the fun in the comment thread.

I’ll post some commentary, snark, and (mostly) other people’s excellent Tweets.

Enjoy!

5:59: I’ll be watching the debate on PBS rather than CNN. Just a personal choice (and a choice endorsed by the bar management).

6:03: Opening shot of the candidate’s backs…looking for the secret radio receivers strapped to Clinton’s back…

6:07: Sander’s opening statement “Yuuuge count”: 1

6:09: Shorter Hillary, “I’m just like him.”

6:21: Hillary is sure “we” will have the political capital to raise taxes on wealthy. Don’t think so, but probably better than Sanders.

6:43: Come’on, when is Bernie going to go all Christie on Hillary?

6:46: Will someone PLEASE ask the candidates about their position on waterboarding?!?

7:50: Man…Democrats SUCK at negative campaigning.

Election night edition of Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

Tonight’s the first primary of the 2016 presidential election season, and there are some local elections happening as well. So please join us for an evening of election returns and primary politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and 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. We start at 8:00pm.



Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight, the nation’s newest DL addition, the Federal Way chapter meets along with the Tri-Cities and Redmond chapters. The Kent chapter meets on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

There are 187 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.

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