Ballots have dropped, and another election season is upon us. Please join us for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. This week, folks from Carbon Washington will join us to discuss I-732. This initiative would lower sales taxes and eliminate the B&O tax in exchange for a carbon tax, with a goal of reducing the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change as well as the impact of our regressive state tax system on low income families.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally meets 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 even 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. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. 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 good there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Thom: The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very Hircinely Ugly!.

David Pakman: One year of legal weed in Washington and everything is fine.

Eric Schwartz: Hattie and Mattie, 2015 edition:

Jackbooted U.N. Thugs Arrive:

• Thom with Jim Hightower: Obama invades Texas!
• The best Jade Helm conspiracy video ever.

Liberal Viewer: Megyn Kelly yells “The law is the law!” while misstating law on immigration detainers

Slate: How stressful is the presidency?

Cop caught on camera.

Persian Partisan Politics:

• Obama announces diplomatic deal with Iran
• WaPo: Politics behind the Iran deal
• Young Turks: Right wingers are furious over Iran agreement
• WaPo: The Iran Nuclear deal in 90 seconds
• Young Turks: The REAL reason critics hate the Iran deal.
• Thom: The fear-mongering begins
• Maddow: Historic nuclear deal puts US, Iran on path to peace
• Young Turks: Obama scolds reporter for stupid question.
• Maddow: Obama eager to engage conservative critics on Iran deal

What the Gardena police didn’t want you to see.

Congressional hits and misses of the week.

White House: West Wing Week.

Beware of the Blob! California’s Drought and Climate Change:

Fetal Attraction:

• Thom: The real Planned Parenthood sting revealed.
• Young Turks: Planned Parenthood under fire in Congress
• Ann Telnaes: Republicans are milking the Planned Parenthood video saga

Young Turks: Video of LAPD shooting unarmed men is released.

Mental Floss: 27 facts about maps.

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

The 2016 Comedy Show:

• Young Turks: Christie, “Nobody in the real world cares about Trump.”
• Texas shop sells out of Donald Trump piñatas
• David Pakman: Donald Trump is leading in the Republican primary polls
• Ed and Friends: Angry old White guys could not be more upset about Latinos
• Young Turks: Trump, “John McCain is a dummy”, and “Rick Perry needs an IQ test.”
• The Donald’s speechwriter.
• David Pakman: The Donald refuses to apologize, but claims he will win the Latino vote
• Ann Telnaes: Trump continues to mouth off…gets rewarded at polls
• Sharpton: Is trump a Democratic plant?
• Young Turks: Is Donald Trump a Democratic plant???
• What’s trending: #TrumpYourCat.
• Young Turks: Trump’s “uber” fail of the week
• Melania Trump speaks
• Maddow: Scott Walker enters 2016 race amid Trump cacophony
• Thom: We have proof of how Walker would run America
• Ann Telnaes: What does Scott Walker stand for, exactly?
• Young Turks: How many lies can Scott Walker cram into one ad?
• Thom: Back to the future with Scott Walker
• Scott Walker: Puppet for president.
• David Pakman: Worst Republican? Scott Walker joins the race….
• Young Turks: Jeb Bush on Donald Trump’s fear mongering
• Ann Telnaes: Jeb has difficulty preparing for the debates….
• Farron Cousins: Is this Marco Rubio’s dumbest idea yet?
• The Fiorina workout (because we need some kind of video of her).

Minute Physics: The counterintuitive physics of turning a bike.

Young Turks: “Classy” Oklahomans greet Obama with Confederate flag.

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News likes anti-atheist discrimination?

Thom: The climate eeception dossiers.

Plutonic Love:

• Slate: Pluto comes into view.
• Stephen Colbert with Neil deGrasse Tyson on the 9th rock from the sun:
  https://youtu.be/6jXazEYi3P8
• Mountains on Pluto: The long zoom-in
• Flyover of Pluto

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about STIs.

Richard Fowler: Federal court upholds cancellation of “Redskins” trademark.

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

Lots of political news these days, locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally. Want to talk about it? Then please join us for an evening of political conversation over a cocktail 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 even 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. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. 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 good there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Mental Floss: Why is ginger a palate cleanser?

Obama’s Greek debt crisis solution.

White House: West Wing Week.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Phemicly Ugly!

Political Stars and Bars:

• Maddow: Confederate flag to come down on Friday
• David Pakman: SC House votes to remove flag
• Young Turks: Racists furious over confederate flag removal.
• Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC) slams Confederate flag amendment
• The flag comes down for good.
• House explodes over Confederate flag resolution.
• Young Turks: Crowds cheer as traitor’s flag is removed

Young Turks: Beware of people preaching morality.

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News says Americans are jerks?!?

Maddow: Debate entry rules to limit participation.

Thom: The Koch brothers plot to kill our national parks.

Young Turks: George W. Bush speaks to wounded vets…and charges them $100K.

Forgotten Assholes of History: The Woman Who Helped Kill Lincoln:

Follow the Money: Droughts, lobbyists, and you.

Mark Fiore: Selective hearing of gun violence.

Pap: SCOTUS has fractured the Republican party.

The 2016 March of the Clowns:

• BuzzFeed: There are so many white guys running it’s hard to tell them apart
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Chris Christie slowly waddles into the race
• Sam Seder: Who’s distancing themselves from Donald Trump now?
• Homer Simpson examines Donald Trump’s hair:

• Young Turks: The Donald insists that he’ll win the Latino vote
• Feel the #TRUMPMENTUM!
• Maddow: Trump doubles down on anti-immigrant rhetoric.
• Young Turks: Trump tries to backpedal but can’t stop saying racist shit
• David Pakman: Donald Trump insults Mexicans…and his clothing line is made in Mexico
• Young Turks: Modern Family writer owns Trump in Twitter war
• David Pakman: Donald Trump construction project reportedly employing ‘illegal immigrants’.
• The Retrumplican Party:

• Thom and Pap: Donald Trump leads the GOP; is the apocalypse beginning?
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz, “I like Donald Trump….I salute Donald Trump.”
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Ted Cruz’s most cringeworthy moment.
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz’s sleazy book sales trick ISN’T FOOLING ANYONE.
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Did Rand Paul and Cliven Bundy just become BFF?
• Richard Fowler: Huckabee resists gay marriage and perverts MLK quote
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Marco Rubio thinks the world will end if he isn’t elected.
• Thom and Pap: Marco Rubio wants NASCAR-style college tuition sponsors
• David Pakman: Rick Santorum (ewwwww) thinks SCOTUS decision proves ‘Man on Dog’ warning was accurate
• Richard Fowler: Jeb Bush totally misunderstands the Baltimore riots
• Young Turks: Jeb Bush thinks you don’t work hard enough.
• Ari Melber with Bernie Sanders: On Jeb Bush’s ‘work longer hours’ comments.
• Thom and Pap: Jeb Bush is completely out of touch with society

Sam Seder with Cliff Schecter: How President Obama’s new rules on overtime pay will help any Americans.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about video games.

Congressional Hits and Misses of the Week.

Harry Reid calls out Republican’s silence on Trump’s racist comments.

When not to correct someone’s grammer:

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News hawks fake “gag order” on Oregon bakery.

Rover-eye view of Mars.

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

Join us this evening for some hot political conversation over a cold, cold 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 even 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. On Wednesday the Bellingham chapter meets. And the Bremerton, Spokane, 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 good there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Thom: Reaganism…a failure from Kansas to Greece.

White House: West Wing Week.

Mental Floss: 24 unexpected things aboard cruise ships.

Songify the news:

If fast food commercials were honest.

Farron Cousins: Republican controlled states fail on EVERY measure

Minute Physics: How do bikes stay upright.

The 2016 Clown Brigade:

• Maddow: Fascinating 2016 race hints at deeper trends
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Which candidates are the billionaires buying
• Sam Seder: Huckabee on race, “less talk about race, let God sort it out”
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Scott Walker thinks white men will save Republicans in 2016
• Jon: Ted Cruz’s Simpson’s impressions
• Ann Telnaes: Ted Cruz does his best McCarthy Impression.
• HuffPo: Trump’s announcement
• Sam Seder: Trump will cause havoc in the Republican party
• Jon: The man who has been there for Jon
• Sam Seder: Republican voters love Donald Trump
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Trump’s poll numbers should terrify the GOP
• David Pakman: Donald Trump insults Mexicans, surges in primary polls
• Thomas Roberts: Macy’s to Trump, “You’re fired.”.
• Maher: Donald Trump is the White Kanye
• Young Turks: Trump doesn’t want poor people near his holes
• Sam Seder: Donald Trump goes to war with NBC and Univision over Miss USA
• Ann Telnaes: Chris Christie launches his presidential bid.
• Sam Seder: Chris Christie practically begs for a billionaire in his announcement
• David Pakman: Chris Christie launches abortive campaign
• Pap and Farron Cousins: Is Rick Santorum the most brain dead of G.O.P. candidates?
• Thom: How Scott Walker gave $124 MILLION to his friends.
• Sam Seder: This is the most dangerous Republican candidate but could he win the primary?

Thom: You too can buy a politician.

Jon: Some good news for conservatives.

What does the Waterkeeper alliance do?

Maddow: Impeachment of Governor LePage considered by Maine legislators.

Mental Floss: Why do Americans use Fahrenheit?

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Parvisciently Ugly!.

The Supremes:

• Mark Fiore: Scalia’s Poetry Slam.
• Sam Seder: The SCOTUS Good, Bad, and Ugly
• Jon: The human dissentipede
• Pap and Farron Cousins: SCOTUS ends discriminatory gerrymandering.
• PsychoSuperMom: Acceptance, Equality & Cake!
• David Pakman: Defeated again…Court upholds ObamaCare subsidies

Young Turks: Catholics are super sad gay people can get married now.

If Mexicans toasted the 4th Of July the way Americans toast Cinco De Mayo.

VSauce: Who owns the moon?

Maddow: Court forces anti-gay holdouts on marriage equality:

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Doxasticly Ugly!

David Pakman: Unemployment dips to 5.3%, debunking Right Wing ‘labor participation’ myths.

Palin Around with Irrelevant:

• Young Turks: Is Sarah Palin still relevant.
• Farron Cousins: FAUX News kicks Sarah Palin’s ass to the curb

Cold war reenactment.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about the U.S..

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

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.