There are just under 500 days to the next presidential election, but plenty of of local regional and state-wide issues to discuss now. So please join us for an evening of conversation over a beer 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. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

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

There are 191 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Mental Floss: What did the original colonists sound like?

Maddow: RNC distributes confusing fake primary ballot:

The Ever Expanding 2016 Clown Parade:

• GOPers on same sex marriage
• Jon on the Clown Brigade’s response to the Pope’s Climate Encyclical
• Michael Brooks: Lindsey Graham stumbles answering question about Confederate flag
• Matt Binder: Mike Huckabee glosses over the racism…and claims the real tragedy is the shooting happened in a church
• Jindal announces what a shitty job he is doing
• Sam Seder: Republicans attack Trump
• Young Turks: Trump has something to smile about.
• Sam Seder: The one way Donald Trump is already screwing the G.O.P.
• Jon takes a ride on the Trump crazy train
• Sam Seder: Did The Donald hire actors to attend his 2016 presidential announcement

Jon Stewart is soooooo SICK.

Forgotten Assholes of History: The Christian Killing Emperor.

Burning Flag:

• Jonathan Mann: Burn that flag
• PsychoSuperMom: The Confederate flag may be over, but racism is not
• Mark Fiore: .
• Young Turks: What exactly are Confederate flag-lovers defending?
• Thom: Why don’t we call racists unpatriotic?
• Lindsey Graham explains the confederate flag.
• Jon offers The South a new flag
• Maddow: Southern states seek removal of Confederate symbols
• Young Turks: Conservative pundits think removing the Confederate flag will destroy the South
• Sam Seder: What taking down the Confederate flag means
• HuffPost Live“Yes, you’re a racist and a traitor”
• Thom: Right wing extremism and terrorism
• Young Turks: It’s the slavery, stupid!

Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.

Farron Cousins: CIA engaged in human medical experimentation.

A SCOTUS Rainbow:

• Young Turks: Dissenting justices cling to ancient hate in opposing gay marriage
• Obama on SCOTUS marriage equality ruling
• Young Turks: Gay marriage is now legal in the U.S.
• White House: Marriage equality
• Young Turks: Candidates fight gay marriage with hate, fear & sky god nonsense

A new kind of climate movement.

Obama honors the life of Reverend Clementa Pinckney.

Mental Floss: 27 weird world records.

Oops…I Did it Again:

• Flashback: Bristol tells teens to “Pause before you play”.
• Young Turks: Abstinence-only advocate Bristol Palin is pregnant again.
• TheLipTV: Bristol Palin is pregnant again.

Congressional hits and misses of the week.

Sam Seder: SCOTUS upholds the real meaning of the Fair Housing Act.

Thom: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Very Immundly Ugly!

SCOTUSCare?!?

• Obama on SCOTUS ruling on health care
• Sam Seder: SCOTUS upholds ObamaCare, Scalia throws a tantrum
• Young Turks: Conservatives pout about ObamaCare ruling
• Jonathan Mann: Scalia’s Dissent (to music):

• Sam Seder: Right wingers react to the SCOTUS Obamacare ruling

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: How FAUX News uses black people to say racist things.

Minute Physics: How to detect a secret nuclear test.

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

Please join us tonight for a summer solstice edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. Stop by for an evening of informal conversation over an ice cold beer.

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. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

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 Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. And the Spokane, Woodinville and Kent chapters meet on Thursday.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Thom: Texas rejects a woman’s right to choose.

“Holy Encyclical, Batman!”

• Mark Fiore: .
• Thom: The Popes climate change call
• Young Turks: Republicans attack Pope

David Pakman: Paul Ryan falls apart (again) on FAUX News…has no plan to replace ObamaCare.

Congressional Hits and Misses of the week.

WTF? Another Right-Wing Extremist Mass Shooting?!?

• Obama makes a statement about the shooting
• Liberal Viewer: FAUX News downplays racial motivation and tries to spin an anti-Christian motive
• Thom: The White shooter was a terrorist
• Sam Seder: Right wing terror—how the NRA uses racism to advance its cause
• Jon runs out of jokes
• Grace Para: Charleston from a Hispanic point of view
• Maddow: Making sense of it
• Should we call the mass murder terrorism?
• Sam Seder: The despicable Right Wing spin
• Young Turks: Right wing terrorists kill more Americans than Islamic extremists
• Thom: Charleston shooting PART 1
• Thom: Charleston shooting PART 2
• Sam Seder: Republican defends flying Confederate flag in the wake of the Charleston terror shootings

Mental Floss: 14 facts about parasites.

Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA) gets a jump on Father’s Day

Young Turks: What woman should appear on the $10?.

Pap and Sam Seder: GOP trash economics sends Kansas back to the dust bowl.

VSauce: Dinosaurs.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about famous stories.

The 2016 Clown Parade—“Even More Clowns” Edition:

• Sam Seder: You bastards have no idea how hard this is for Ted Cruz
• David Pakman: Jeb! Is! In!
• Thom: Right Wing extremism, Jeb style
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Marco Rubio’s shopaholic confessions
• Sam Seder: The Rick Perry 2016 makeover
• Young Turks: Donald Trump hired actors to attend his announcement

• Donald Trump Can’t stop whining about America
• Factivist: The Jeb! Bush! record
• Farron Cousins: Donald Trump’s ego can’t fit in Republican clown car
• Jon: Listening to Trump quotes is “better than freebasing”
• Sam Seder: DNC’s hilarious statement about Trump
• PsychoSuperMom: Keepin’ Crazy in the Trump World:

• Maddow: Trump is in!
• James Rustad: Old Trump Donald Owned a Slum
• Pap and Sam Seder: Scott Walker makes Wisconsin even dumber

Mental Floss: Why do we blush when embarassed.

Farron Cousins: The death of another Republican talking point.

Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.

Thom: How big money is undermining voter rights.

Racial Identity Politics:

• Young Turks: Rachel Dolezal, guilty or not guilty?
• Melissa Harris-Perry: Extended interview with Rachel Dolezal
• Flashback: Steven Colbert and Steve Carell in “Maya”
• Young Turks: Abdul-Jabbar defends Rachel Dolezal
• David Pakman: Are Rachel Dolezal’s parents abusive extremist young earth creationists?

White House: West Wing Week.

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

You are invited to the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally tonight. Stop by for informal conversation over an ice cold beer.

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. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

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 chapter meets.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

SlateTV: Spiders falling from the sky.

Ann Telnaes: The elusive G.O.P. ObamaCare replacement.

Obama: Health Care in America:

Thom: The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Anisosthenically Ugly.

The 2016 Clown Procession:

• Maddow: A bad day for the 2016 clown brigade
• Sam Seder and Charlie Pierce: Who has entered the G.O.P. clown car so far
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham experience a bit of electile dysfunction
• Sam Seder: OMG—Rick Perry’s 2016 presidential campaign theme song
• David Pakman: Jeb Bush said unwed mothers should be publicly shammed in his contributions to the Republican War on Women™.
• Mark Fiore: Bush spawn returns.
• SCTV: Your next 2016 looser
• Farron Cousins: Scott Walker’s contribution to the Republican War on Women™.
• Young Turks: Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum with a bad case of electile dysfunction
• David Pakman: Santorum campaign event draws crowd of one
• Lindsey Graham is a “Bro with no ho,” according to Mark Kirk
• Richard Fowler: Lindsey Graham throws his scarf into the ring
• Marco Rubio’s finance controversy explained
• Sam Seder: Mike Huckabee gets really creepy (and insensitive)
• Sam Seder: The hilarious video that Mike Huckabee doesn’t want you to see
• Farron Cousins: Rick Santorum picks a fight with the pope
• Jon shreds the NY Times over Rubio coverage

Jon: Awkward moments between CNN’s Chris Cuomo and NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Farron Cousins: Sarah Palin—The candidate the GOP deserves.

Richard Fowler: Ben and Jerry’s delicious environmental mission.

Here is what you need to know about MERS.

Pelosi announces opposition to trade bill.

Forgotten Assholes of History: Money hungry witch hunter.

David Pakman: Glenn Beck quits America.

Pap: Mitch McConnell’s anti-American journey to spite Obama.

Thom: Kansas’s reagonomic disaster and Minnesota’s economic miracle.

Obama sometimes responds to letters that call him an idiot.

VSauce: The Moon Terminator Illusion:

SlateTV: What are the chances of getting hit by asteroid?

Officer Friendly:

• Jon: Pool party gone bad.
• Young Turks: Unarmed man dies in his own blood after being shot by Utah cop
• Sam Seder: FAUX and Fiends defends McKinney cop who brutalized teens at pool party
• Chris Hayes: New evidence in fatal police shooting contradicts police report
• If police action figures were realistic….
• Thom: Is “swimming while black” illegal?
• Helpful Dos and Don’ts for Police Officers, Vol. 2
• Young Turks: Cop who shot fleeing black man is charged with murder

Young Turks: Why Dems (w/ GOP help) torpedoed Obama’s big evil trade deal.

Reid: GOP governing ‘crisis by crisis’.

Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.

Thom: Listen when Greenpeace says “Shell NO”.

Mental Floss: Does hitting the snooze button help?

Pap and Sam Seder: Red states are screwed if Obamacare is repealed.

PsychoSuperMom: Voter fraud is (still) a fraud.

Farron Cousins: The Republican War on the Poor™ continues.

Thom: The Good, The bad, and the very very bathetically ugly.

Maddow: NH Republicans reject FAUX News as debate moderator.

Songify the News: Of murder and catfish.

WaPo: Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, phase I.

Is this Cig-ghazi?

Rummy Raises His Ugly Head:

• Thom: The war crimes clean-up begins.
• Jon: Rummy’s second thoughts.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about the weather.

White House: West Wing Week.

Young Turks: Hastert’s pedophile obsession proves gross hypocrisy.

Thom: The Good, The Bad and The Very Very Tenebrificly Ugly.

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

For over ten year, the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally has served as a gathering place for people to talk politics, brainstorm, introduce new candidates, watch debates and SOTU addresses. All over a beer. So please join us this evening as we do it, once again.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle on Tuesday night? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Tri-Cities and Redmond chapters also meet tonight. On Wednesday the Bellingham chapter meets. The Bremerton, Spokane, and Kent chapters meet on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

The Texas crazyfest.

Thom: America…No longer home of the brave but the scared shitless.

Jon celebrates the expiration of certain provisions of the Patriot Act.

Hillary slams GOP for war on voting, calls for universal registration:

David Pakman: The progressivization of America?

Sam Seder: Republicans are still scared of the Lego movie.

Slate: The world’s first murder case.

A Jon Stewart tribute.

Ann Telnaes: George W. Bush’s popularity recovers.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about sharks.

White House: West Wing Week.

Maher: GOP…stop it with the phony cries of Christian persecution already.

Thom: The state of surveillance in America.

Shaheen to Obama: Put a Woman on the $20 Bill.

David Pakman: Nebraska overrides Governor’s veto, ends death penalty.

Mark Fiore: Who created ISIS?

Sam Seder: Gov. Scott Walker’s bullshit reason for forcing women to get ultrasounds.

The 2016 Clown Convention:

• Young Turks: Final Judgement on Lindsey Graham announcing he is running for President
• Ann Telnaes: Lindsey Graham flexing his foreign policy approach
• Farron Cousins: Jeb Bush Desperate To Save Family Name.
• Maddow: Jeb Bush testing legal line on ‘exploring’ 2016 presidential run.
• Ted Cruz jokes about Joe Biden on the eve of his son’s funeral
• David Pakman: Ted Cruz’s hypocrisy on Texas flooding and hurricane Sandy
• Jon: Lincoln and Rick!
• Olbermann: Ted Cruz is Worst Person in the Sports World.
• Farron Cousins: Rand Paul needs a sugar daddy
• Young Turks: Rand Paul causes a huge GOP cat-fight over Patriot Act
• Fallon: The pros and cons of Donald Trump running F]for President
• David Pakman: Gov. Scott Walker mansplains rape pregnancies

Young Turks: Hate rally goes badly for the haters.

Congressional hits and misses of the week:

Thom: The media’s “wave of silence” on Sen. Bernie Sanders (and why).

Scientists grow mini brains in the lab.

Jon: How Muslims can be less scary and more American.

OBL is alive in the Ocean.

Farron Cousins: The GOP is losing voters in droves…to death

Thom: The Good, The Bad and the very very Uxorovalently Ugly.

Mental Floss: 24 Food Origins.

Minute Physics: Upside down mountains in real life.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Chris Cillizza: A look inside the Hastert indictment.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Mollescently Ugly.

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

Please joins us this evening for another cocktail-enhanced and conversation-packed edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

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. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Mass murders and the media that love them.

Dickipedia: Mitch McConnell is a dick.

Tar Sands CEO says climate change is real.

Thom: Meet the new normal for student debt.

The silliest things people tweet at Obama.

Farron Cousins and Pap: FAUX News makes you stupid and the G.O.P. is worried about it.

The problem with frats.

Sam Seder: A Red state overturns the death penalty.

David Pakman: So much for “the party of jobs,” as Republicans pass zero jobs bills in their first 138 days in session.

White Super Power: Why Hollywood needs more white Super Heroes:

Mental Floss: 24 strange scientific studies.

The 2016 Clown Parade:

• Sam Seder: Koch Brothers are shopping for a candidate
• Young Turks: Rand Paul blames ISIS on Republicans
• Ann Telnaes: Rand blows Republican’s minds on Iraq.
• Farron Cousins: Jeb Bush bashes…intelligence?!?
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz was a gamer
• Sam Seder: Marco Rubio thing that gay rights are a “real and present danger” to Christianity!
• David Pakman: Marco Rubio goes all bigot over same sex marriage
• Young Turks: Santorum is…um, running.
• Jon takes on “Tremendous asshole” Donald Trump and other fringe candidates
• Farron Cousins: Ben Carson is too weak to be President
• Richard Fowler: Ben Carson is running….
• Sam Seder: Remember that time 2016 GOP Presidential candidate George Pataki got OWNED on live TV?
• Young Turks: GOP candidates having a fiveway in battle to be tops
• Richard Fowler: Huckabee is running!
• Sam Seder: Lindsey Graham ran a pool room, so he knows that Iran is lying
• Richard Fowler: Carly Fiorina is running….
• Young Turks: Carly Fiorina wants to ask Hillary Clinton about the Iraq War

Congressional hits and misses: Rob Bishop (R-UT-01) edition.

White House: West Wing Week.

Trevor Noah’s New and Sexy Daily Show premier.

Farron Cousins: Media racism in the age of Obama.

Sam Seder: Louie Gohmert’s feelings are hurt over Jade Helm.

Thom: G.O.P. birth control bill is an insult to women.

Mr. Speaker:

• Hastert indictment explained.
• Young Turks: Dennis Hastert indicted for covering up sexual assault of a minor
• Maddow: Surprise indictment wrenches former Speaker Hastert from obscurity

Obama’s reaction to a meltdown by Congress a toddler in the White House.

Lawrence O’Donnell: John Stewart’s plan to help vets:

Farron Cousins: Louie Gohmert longs for perpetual war

David Pakman: GOP dragged kicking and screaming into acknowledging climate change.

Jon on allergies and media hyperbole.

Chris Hayes: Obama’s secret weapon on Iran’s nuclear program speaks

Liberal Viewer: The FAUX News alarmist irony alert.

Mark Fiore: Mitch McConnell and Snuggly The Security Bear beg to spy.

Mental Floss: Why do you see better when you squint?

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

Okay…so it’s back to work on Tuesday, which is a pretty good excuse to swing by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally for an evening of conversations over a cocktail.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

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 Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. The Spokane, Woodinville and Kent chapters meet on Thursday. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Michelle Obama works out.

Thom: G.O.P. calls out Faux News as propaganda.

Texas-style Crazy:

• Hey Texas…Are you okay?
• Dickipedia: Ted Nugent is a DICK:

• Young Turks: Stunning numbers believe Texas will be invaded by its own country
• Is there no cure for Texas?
• David Pakman: Texas BANS Tesla from selling directly to consumers

The many accomplishments of Vladimir Putin.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about Disney.

White House: West Wing Week.

MinutePhysics: Why rain drops are mathematically impossible.

Thom: Debt slavery is the new norm for college students.

The 2016 Klown Kar:

• Maddow: Home state animus burdens governors with eyes on 2016
• Chris Hayes: Who will be cut from the Debates?
• Young Turks: Rick Santorum gets frothy over FAUX News decision…and he is kind-a right.
• David Pakman: Jeb Bush insanely claims George W. Bush was MISLED into war
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Jeb Bush can’t stop flop-flopping on Iraq
• David Pakman: Jeb Bush goes full bigot on same sex marriage
• Mark Fiore: Jeb Bush and brotherly love.
• David Pakman: Jeb Bush says it is arrogant to acknowledge climate science consensus.
• Thom: Can any GOP presidential candidate handle the Iraq question?
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Jeb Bush, “Believing Science is Arrogant”!
• David Pakman: Jeb wants to replace Obamacare with Apple watch
• Young Turks: Jeb Bush backtracks on climate change science
• Matt Binder: Rick Perry to Glenn Beck, “Jade Helm proves you can’t trust government.
• Young Turks: Chris Christie wants 9/11-style fear to rule all of our lives
• Sam Seder: Lindsey Graham is running for President because the world is falling apart
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Marco Rubio’s RNC spending spree
• David Pakman: Rubio implodes over Iraq war
• Young Turks: Mike Huckabee still supports child molester Josh Duggar

Thom: The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very Epicenely Ugly!

Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.

Sen. Franken (D-MN): End NSA bulk phone surveillance.

Pap: GOP voter base is dying off.

Unsolicited advice for Bristol Palin.

Boy Scout President calls for end to gay ban.

Fifteen Now:

• Sam Seder: Debunking the “higher minimum wage hurts the economy’ myth
• Young Turks: Minimum wage workers get a raise in LA
• Sam Seder: Big living wage win in LA

Ann Telnaes: Spinning the Iraq War.

Thom: End the Bankster’s “get out of jail free” card!

SNL: Hillary Clinton’s summer.

Slate: Inside the Hubble telescope’s strangest image.

President Twitterer:

• @POTUS: The first Tweet.
• The pros and cons of tweeting President Obama
• Jonathan Capehart: Obama joins Twitter….Here come the racists.
• David Pakman: Racist asshole conservatives welcome Obama to Twitter.

Mental Floss: 23 weird celebrity businesses.

Sam Seder: Did Bill O’Reilly beat his wife?

Congressional hits and misses of the week:

Maddow: Outrageous news.

America’s nicest men’s rights activist (MRA) explains the cause.

Pap: The public HATES the Supreme Court.

Iraq Intelligence:

• Maddow: Republicans ignore Iraq war lies
• Thom: Former CIA Deputy Director admits the Dick Cheney pushed him on Iraq.
• Michael Brooks: CIA Official, “George Bush misled on Iraq and I knew”.
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: On Iraq, they knew then what they knew now.
• Young Turks: Government lies and the reality of Iraq

Young Turks: Ireland may vote to legalize same sex marriage.

Sam Seder: Nutjob Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), I trust the Ayatollah more than Obama.

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

It’s Tuesday…and that means it’s Drinking Liberally night in Seattle. So please join us for an evening of politics under the influence at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

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 chapter meets.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Young Turks: Obama speaks the truth about FAUX News.

Jon feeds FAUX News from its own ‘Rich buffet of bullshit’.

Mark Fiore: Obama trades transparency.

Vsauce: Counting.

Young Turks: FAUX News guest so vile and sexist that even Hannity cringes.

Thom: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Very Neoteinicly Ugly.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about health food.

Chris Hayes: Seattle ‘KAYAKIVISTS’ face down shell’s ARCTIC drilling rig:

Sam Seder: The myth of the absent black father.

Chris Hayes: The new G.O.P. War on Women™.

A Get Well Soon message for George Zimmerman.

The 2016 Clown Parade:

• Bill Maher: What did they do with Rand Paul?
• Young Turks: Rand Paul staffer licks camera of tracker
• Jon on Jeb Bush’s bizarre admission: “It’s like wearing an ‘I Fuck Dogs’ t-shirt”
• Ann Telnaes: Jeb’s foreign policy brain.
• David Pakman: Jeb would have invaded….
• Jon to Jeb: “Thank you…was that so hard?”
• Maddow: Bush stumbles raise questions of campaign competence.
• Sam Seder: College kid schools Jeb Bush about his brother
• Jeb’s terrible, no good, very bad week.
• David Pakman: Jeb Bush confronted by 19yo
• Thom: Jeb Bush isn’t a moderate…he is an extremist neocon
• Young Turks: Santorum thinks baby daddies are sexual predators

WaPo: The hydrogen powered car of the future?

The minimum wage should be $15/hr.

Thom with the The Good, the Bad, and the Very Very Patripotestally Ugly.

Mental Floss: 30 strange scholarships.

Young Turks: George Stephanopoulos sorry for secretly fighting AIDS.

Thom: Reaganism caused the train crash.

Jon: UK election extravaganza.

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: Study shows every Republican Obamacare fear-mongering prediction was WRONG:

Reid: NFL more concerned about Deflategate than a racist team name.

No-Sex Education:

• David Pakman: CA Judge says Abstinence-Only ed isn’t sex ed.
• Young Turks: Judge rules abstinence-only “sex ed” is illegal.

Maddow: Reproductive rights remain brightest partisan dividing line.

Everything you need to know about Seymour Hersh’s Bin Laden report.

Thom: G.O.P.’s food stamp hypocrisy.

Mental Floss: Why are calculator and phone keypads the opposite?

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

What’s there to talk about in politics? Shell Oil got the go-ahead from the feds to drill in the Arctic, but will the Port of Seattle give them a base? Another week, another batch of G.O.P. Presidential candidate announcements to ponder. And Jeb Bush would still invade Iraq…even “knowing what we know now.” Please join us for drinks and conversation at this week’s meeting of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle on Tuesday night? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Tri-Cities and Redmond chapters also meet tonight. On Wednesday the Bellingham chapter meets. The Bremerton, Spokane, and Kent chapters meet on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

There are 191 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.