The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. Please join us for an evening of politics and conversation over a pint. It will be an evening to savoring on our last day before the Seattle economic apocalypse….

We meet every Tuesday evening 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.

https://youtu.be/BNBR2wZVMXI

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. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.

There are 189 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.

Ann Telnaes: Making executions easier.

SlateTV: The times we made animals into bombs.

Political fashion chat.

How teachers are funding gun companies against their will.

Young Turks: Why are Republican Governors so pro-prison rape?

See the earth change over the past 200 million years.

The 2016 Clown Parade:

• Mark Fiore: Imagine Republican Dough.
• WaPo: Ted Cruz in his own nutty words
• Sam Seder: Peter King pretends to not be Ted Cruz.
• Confronted by Dreamers…Ted Cruz is already on the run!
• The Ted Cruz honest presidential ad
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz forces Liberty University students to attend his speech
• Pap and Cliff Schecter: George W. Bush lowered the bar for Ted Cruz
• Chris Hayes: It’s True! Ted Cruz is going on ObamaCare
• Maddow: Ted Cruz launches his campaign for Vice President
• Bill Maher and friends: The puzzle of Ted Cruz (and his changed taste in music).
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz thinks non-Christians have too much power
• Jon: Ted Cruz’s kiss rehearsal
• David Pakman: Nutcase Ted Cruz signs up for ObamaCare after vowing to repeal ObamaCare.
• Matt Binder: Ted Cruz launches his presidential campaign at university founded by racist who blamed gays for 9/11
• Ted Cruz: Imagine!
• Larry Wilmore, Lewis Black and Friends: Ted
• Richard Fowler: Idiot Ted Cruz wants to repeal Federal legislation that does not exist
• David Pakman: Lying hypocrite Ted Cruz falsely claims he was required to sign up for ObamaCare
• Chris Hayes: Cruz is ‘the elite of the elite’ acting like he is ‘folksy’
• Michael Brooks: Gov. Jerry Brown lays the smack down on Ted Cruz’s climate denial
• Young Turks: The insane conspiracy theories that Ted Cruz actually believes
• Chris Cillizza: Ted Cruz and Barack Obama have more in common than you think
• Sam Seder: Ted Cruz claims 9/11 made him love country music
• Sam Seder: Donald Trump goes all Birfer on Ted Cruz
• Maddow: Dark money probe raises questions about Scott Walker donations
  https://youtu.be/7WTTihwUijo
• Pap and Sam Seder: Jeb Bush’s shameful past
• Maddow: Bush/Cheney running again for President?
• Richard Fowler: Jeb Bush wants to eliminate the minimum wage
• David Pakman: Rick Santorum meets woman who is crazier than he is!
• Sam Seder: Louie Gohmert is running for President?!?

Sen. Nelson slams alleged ban on climate change speech.

Sam Sacks: ALEC is too toxic for BP.

John Oliver: John Oliver hits Netanyahu’s ‘Michael Jackson-level’ walking back on two-state solution.

Sam Seder: Media darling John McCain says media favors “wacko birds”.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about the bible.

Maddow: The kids are alright.

Young Turks: Sean Hannity gets out-hannitied in his “War on Spring Break”.

The Duck Dynasty Child Rape–Murder Fantasy…for a Prayer Breakfast:

• Young Turks: Duck Dynasty patriarch paints bizarre rape & murder scenario “against atheism”
• Sam Seder: Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s horrifying atheist rape-murder fantasy

SlateTV: Can animals be altruists?

Why every new Macbook uses a different goddamn charger.

Jon plugs his ears and pretends climate change doesn’t exist.

If anti-vaccine parents rode the Magic School Bus:
https://youtu.be/nDjz5qHIzsc

Some Congresscritters read mean tweets.

Young Turks: Traitor Republican Senators used Israeli spies against their own country.

Jon and Kristen: Pay equality for women.

ObamaCare at Five:

• Obama: Marking the 5th anniversary of the ACA
• Media Matters Minute: Five years later, conservative media’s worst predictions for ObamaCare never came to pass.
• John Green: Is Obamacare working? The Affordable Care Act five years later
• Media Matters Minute: FAUX cites anonymous “expert” to suggest ObamaCare enrollment numbers aren’t real.

Go Green and save the earth…if you have time.

Mental Floss: 16 shampoo facts.

Michael Brooks: John McCain throws a tantrum accusing Obama of throwing a tantrum.

Jon Jon catches FAUX News “jerking itself off”.

White House: West Wing Week.

Pap: SCOTUS gets one correct for voting rights

Indiana—The Crossroads of American Homophobia:

• Sam Seder: Indiana Governor admits no reason for vicious anti-gay law but signs it anway
• David Pakman: Gen Con Gamers will move their Convention out of Indiana
• Indiana: A great place to be…a bigot:
  https://youtu.be/5LH2FVxrj4k
• Young Turks: Gay people not welcome in Christian businesses in Indiana

WaPo with some Congressional dos and don’ts.

President Obama: Take our daughters and sons to work day.

Aasif Mandvi mocks the media in brutal RTCA dinner speech.

David Pakman: CA AG goes to court to keep ‘Shoot the Gays’ initiative off the ballot.

Mitt Romney and Jimmy Fallon face off on the Tonight Show.

Sen. Reid Announces His Retirement:

• Young Turks: Kick Ass facts about Sen. Reid
• Sen. Harry Reid announces he will not run again.
• Young Turks: What will happen after Sen. Reid retires?

Mental Floss: Fourteen ways technology has improved our lives.

Jon: The daily show fixes the VA’s “crow problem”

Young Turks: Germanwings Flight 9525 right-wing conspiracy theories.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. Please join us for the start of spring and, with an announcement by Sen. Ted Cruz, the start of what will likely be the most entertaining presidential election season ever.

We meet every Tuesday evening 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, Burien, and Spokane chapters meet. The Woodinville and Kentchapters meet on Thursday.

There are 189 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.

WaPo: Remembering the LAST government shutdown.

Harry Reid thanks (self-certified ophthalmologist) Sen. Rand Paul for eye injury advice.

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

David Pakman: TX Senate approves concealed campus carry gun bill.

Chris Hayes: Seattle revolts against Big Oil Arctic Drilling by Shell.

Sam Seder: This is the Republican base and the GOP presidential hopefuls who created them:

Maddow: Oregon’s top women makes voting EASIER.

Mental Floss: 51 astounding facts about animals.

PsychoSuperMom: Religious freedom (Doesn’t mean the freedom to discriminate).

Sam Seder: Alabama is desperately trying to retard it’s own progress.

Jon: Netanyahu is stealing our election strategies.

David Pakman: Snoop Dog asks fans to divest from gun industry.

Vsauce: The science of awkwardness.

Maher goes after college fraternities.

Republicans Take Another Hostage:

• Dem. Sen.: Lynch is being asked to sit at the back of the bus.
• Sen. Reid: Hard to understand holding up Lynch nomination.
• Richard Fowler: Republicans snuck anti-abortion language into anti-trafficking bill

Thom: Climate scientists are fighting back against the fossil fuel industry’s propaganda campaign.

White House: West Wing Week.

Jon: FAUX News and its Benghazi “Rage-gasm”.

Obama fact-checks his critics:

The NRA plan to push guns on campus.

Mental Floss: Why do mosquitoes prefer biting some people to others?

David Pakman: Obama mentions mandatory voting…Republicans’ heads explode.

Peloci is concerned that it isn’t about email.

Sam Seder: FAUX News pundit stuns colleagues by not being a moron.

Thom: How ALEC’s actions are harming our planet.

Maddow: Hillary admits she wants Americans in “camps” (and other crazy things).

Schock and Aaaaaaaawwwwwwww:

• The spectacular fall of Rep. Aaron Schock (Follow the Money)
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: The bizarre implosion of Aaron Schock
• Jon: Aaron Schock
• Maddow: Republican star quits under onslaught of money questions

Michelle Obama’s message to her younger self.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about psychology.

Farron Cousins: Inside the secret campaign to destroy workers’ rights.

Thom: The brutal winter that wasn’t.

Sam Seder: As the climate crisis worsens, Republicans want CIA to stop studying it’s threat to security.

Mark Fiore: Shoot-em-up Charlie loves cop killers.

Maddow: Chemical lobbyist exposed as author of new bill to regulate industry:
https://youtu.be/ttVzup1JX30

Race in America:

• Young Turks: Why Stephen A. Smith wants all Black people to vote Republican
• Farron Cousins: Ferguson P.D. is a horde of racists
• Young Turks: Dick Cheney claims Obama is using race card to avoid criticism
• Larry Wilmore: Not impressed with Starbucks racetogether campaign (and other topics).
• Young Turks: “Boy wonder” James O’Keefe wants protesters to murder police
• Young Turks: White supremacist terrorist plot to kill Obama thwarted

Chris Hayes: Tesla wins fight to sell cars directly in New Jersey.

Thom and Pap: Email gate…Jeb Bush busted using private email for security issues.

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

Please join us this evening for a St. Patrick’s Day party peppered with political prognostication at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday evening 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 189 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.

Mental Floss: 23 bad business moves.

David Pakman: When did right-wing anti-intellectualism begin?

Pap: GOP is scamming its donors.

Young Turks: Megyn Kelly drops some reality sauce on Mike Huckabee’s head.

#47Traitors

• Jon: On Republican Senators’ open letter to Iran
• Thom: Iran sabotage…is the GOP committing treason?
• Young Turks: Traitor Senator Tom Cotton is taking money from defense industry
• Sam Seder: 47 Republican Senators may have broken the law
• John Kerry hammers the Senators who sent the letter.
• James Rustad: “My Senators Wrote Iran A Letter”
  https://youtu.be/a9eA2tBFwtk
• Young Turks: Senators face backlash over letter
• Thom: Is it time to put Senators in jail yet?
• Sam Seder: Just how dumb can the Republicans be?
• Maddow: GOP Senators now claim letter was A JOKE?!?
• Young Turks: Republicans blame Obama for the seditious letter to Iran
• Michael Brooks and Cliff Schecter: GOP’s hysterical Iran letter
• Chris Hayes: What if Obama secretly sold 1,500 missiles to Iran?

If Susan B. Anthony had a Vlog.

David Pakman: A President Lindsey Graham would deploy military against congress to reverse military cuts.

Sam Seder: The mainstream press fails Wisconsin Workers

SNL Weekend Update girl at a party on ISIS and Boko Haram.

Kerry spars with Rubio over ISIS

Anti-Vax Fever (with chills and light sneezing):

• The anti-vax story the media doesn’t want you to hear:

• SCTV: Kids settle the debate about vaccines

Jon mocks CNN’s Selma coverage of… a drone.

Thom: Why unions are the seeds of democracy.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about your lawn.

John Oliver: U.S. Territories.

Wrong-email-address-ghazi!!!!!11!1!11!!!!

• Sen. Reid: “I have no concerns about [Clinton’s emails].
• Young Turks: Final Judgment on Clinton Emails

Amazon Prime for Women (because you deserve 78% satisfaction).

Jon questions Christie’s loyalty to NJ.

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

Mental Floss: Why do we get dark circles under our eyes.

Rep. Donna Edwards launches Senate bid.

Congressional hits and misses of the week.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Scott Walker butchers Wisconsin workers.

Racism in America:

• Mark Fiore: Racist EZ Cash.
• Richard Fowler: Ferguson police created a “toxic environment”
• Maddow: Racist emails from Ferguson
• Young Turks: Frat boy defends racist bros on Twitter
• Sam Seder: Morning Joe blames racism on rap music
• Young Turks: Morning Joe blames rap music for racist frat boys
• Jon: SAE frat boys finally apologize.
• Thom: Will the Voting Rights Act get fixed?
• Sam Seder: Why Selma’s country club is still “Whites Only”

Kimmel: Obama reads mean tweets:
https://youtu.be/RDocnbkHjhI

Sam Seder: The legacy of Paul Wellstone.

White House: West Wing Week.

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

David Pakman: The Obama economy.

Sen. Patty Murray and other Democratic leaders cry foul over abortion language shamefully put into anti-human trafficking bill:

Vsauce: Human extinction.

ONN: Should unpaid interns be paid for fighting for their boss’ amusement?

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

Please join us this evening for some politics over a pint, some civics over cider, some campaigning over champagne, or some electioneering over…um…Everclear? Whatever your taste in governing or guzzling, stop by for this week’s gathering of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday evening 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 on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Spokane chapters meet. The Bremerton and Kent chapters meet on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

There are 189 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.

Mental Floss: 30 weird apps.

Bibi Goes To Washington:

• Maddow: Netanyahu on Iran echoes his incorrect 2002 Iraq alarm
• Young Turks: Rand Paul attacked for not applauding Netanyahu enough
• Mark Fiore: Greater Republica.
• Young Turks: Final judgement on Bibi’s little talk
• Jon on the CNN coverage
• Sam Seder: Chris Matthews destroys Netanyahu and Republicans for trying to hijack U.S. foreign policy
• Young Turks: Chris Matthews calls Netanyahu speech a startling “takeover attempt”

Pasco Police kill man but don’t know ‘use of force’ policy:

Jimmy Kimmel on his anti-vax haters.

Sam Seder: Nutcase Rep. Louie Gohmert thinks we can’t fight Boko Haram because of THE GAYS!.

Wrong-email-address-ghazi!

• Jon: Wrong-email-address-ghazi
• Young Turks: Did Hillary Clinton break the law
• David Pakman: Panic over Hillary’s emails for doing what Powell did

Funny or Die: An apology from Uber.

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

They told this DEA agent not to enforce drug laws in white areas.:

Health Care Challenge:

• David Pakman: New challenge to ObamaCare explained
• WaPo: Health Care at the Supreme Court.
• Thom: Obamacare haters should be careful what they wish for
• Chris Hayes: GOP DISASTER if Obamacare “LOSES” at SCOTUS
• Sam Seder and Brian Beutler: Will SCOTUS save Obamacare?
• Ann Telnaes: Republicans look to trash health care through the Supreme Court.
• Young Turks: Upcoming Supreme Court decision could kill Obamacare
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Why did SCOTUS take the case that could destroy Obamacare now?

Congressional hits and misses of the week.

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

David Pakman: Sheriff who refused Obamacare now begging strangers to pay medical bills.

Mental Floss: How does a two-way mirror work.

The 2016 Clown Parade:

• Maddow: Christie challenged on ExxonMobil pollution settlement
• David Pakman: Birfer Donald Trump has an idea on how to defeat ISIS
• Sam Seder: Dr. Ben Carson’s delusional presidential announcement.
• Dr. Ben Carson is convinced he knows how to become bay.
• Young Turks: Ben Carson’s queer silence about his homosexuality remarks
• David Pakman: Ben Carson apologizes for his previous idiotic statement on homosexuality
• David Pakman: Santorum’s CPAC Birfer joke bombs
• The irony of Presidential wannabe Scott Walker.
• David Pakman: Scott Walker can defeat ISIS because he took on prounion protesters
• Matt Binder: Scott Walker claims Reagan’s most important FOREIGN POLICY decision was firing 11,000 union workers

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about allergies.

Bill Maher: Republican’s obsession with whether Obama loves America enough.

David Pakman: 57% of Republicans say dismantle Constitution, make Christianity national religion.

Thom: Welcome to the new corporate feudalism.

Ferguson’s “Officers Friendly”:

• Thom: Shocking new report on Ferguson Police
• Jon on DOJ and the Ferguson police.
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: The systemic and grotesque racism of the Ferguson Police Department is uncovered
• Young Turks: DOJ show a racist Ferguson police department.
• Larry Wilmore gets pulled over. In his show’s studio.

Sam and Pap: How stupid has the GOP made America?

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: Unemployment rate down to 5.6%, 212,000 new jobs.

“Senator Barb” paved way for Senate women:

Bill-O-The-Liar:

• Pap and Sam Seder: Bill O’Reilly’s career of lies
• Thom: Bill-O-the-Clown’s nose is growing again.
• Bill Maher and friends: Why isn’t the media going after bald-assed liar Bill-O like they did Williams?
• David Pakman: Audio tape debunks Bill-O’s claims regarding JFK case
• Michael Brooks: Audio tape proves Bill O’Reilly lied about JFK story
• David Pakman: Another lie…Bill-O-the-Liar didn’t really see ‘Irish terrorists kill and maim’ in Northern Ireland

Young Turks: Nutbag conservative blogger doesn’t like Spock because of Obama?!?

Greenman: Climate change elevator pitch from Mauri Pelto.

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

Please join us tonight for an evening of politics and conversation over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday evening 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.

http://youtu.be/4j66fd3dJYI

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

There are 188 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 week’s Politiclips.

Net Neutrality:

• Sam Seder: Net neutrality wins.
• Young Turks: Net neutrality is real and why you should celebrate
• Maddow: Net neutrality supporters enjoy hard fought victory in new FCC rules

CPAC: Duck Dynasty kook Phil Robertson, rants about STDs.

Mental Floss: 43 words invented by authors.

Greenman: Simon Donner’s elevator pitch for global warming.

The 2016 Parade of Clowns

• Sam Seder with breaking news about The Donald
• Mark Fiore: America the Rudyful.
• Liveral Viewer: Sen. Grahm thinks ISIS hates vegetarians?
• Sam Seder: Nutcase Gov. Scott Walker suggests American workers are just like ISIS
• Richard Fowler: Rand Paul pre-announces….
• Ed: Anti-union derby for 2016 nomination
• CPAC: Paul supporters walk out on Jeb
• Sam Seder: Rick Santorum bombs at CPAC with a Birfer joke about Obama
• CPAC: Birfer nutcase Donald Trump isn’t sure about Obama’s birth certificate
• Young Turks: Sarah Palin’s CPAC theory about ISIS

Chris Hayes: Amen, Sister Laura Ingraham.

Thom: Koch brothers caught funding climate change deniers.

The Republican War on Gynecology™

• Sam Seder: Idaho State Rep ask if women can swallow a camera for gynecological exam.
• Young Turks: Idaho lawmaker is very confused about female anatomy
• David Pakman: A bad case of alimentary–vaginal confusion
• Maddow: Vagina confusion by Idaho lawmaker

Sam Seder: Ron Paul suggests that Black lawmakers are only against war because they want the money for food stamps.

Richard Fowler: What was American’s most successful industry in the past century?

The U.S. is turning Green:

• WaPo: D.C. new pot law explained.
• Thom: D.C. strange pot legalization.
• David Pakman: Alaska becomes 3rd state (and 1st red state) to legalize pot.
• Young Turks: And, Alaska makes three….
• Pap and Sam Seder: A breakthrough in AK
• David Pakman and Pap: Why do drug agencies & big pharma oppose marijuana legalization?

Young Turks: Sean Hannity’s creepy CPAC joke.

Mental Floss: Why don’t humans have a mating season.

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

The Fog of War Zones:

• Young Turks: Bill O’Reilly is a pompous, lying ass.
• Sam Seder: How many lies can Bill-O get away with?
• Maddow: Bill O’Reilly reporter threats indefensible
• PsychoSuperMom: Won’t You Shut Up, Bill O’Reilly?

• David Pakman: Bill O’Reilly deliberately confusing people to hide his lies
• Young Turks: Oops…Bill did it again.
• Jon: Bill-Os war zones and Netanyahu
• Maddow chats with David Corn
• James Rustad: Bill O’Reilly Lies
• Thom: Are Bill-O’s days at FAUX News numbered?
• David Pakman: Bill O’Reilly caught in 2 more lies
• Young Turks: Bill-O the Clown’s lying habit
• Sam Seder: Remember when Bill O’Reilly was publicly shamed for another lie?

Ann Telnaes: A test for loving America.

Vsauce: Would Headlights Work at Light Speed?

David Pakman: Billionaire Governor raises minimum age and raises taxes…economy booms.

White House: West Wing Week.

He Lived Long and Prospered:

• Young Turks: Leonard Nimoy is dead
• Cliff Schecter and Sam Seder remember Leonard Nemoy.

Jon: Why does the Obama Administration keep prosecuting whistle blowers?

Ed: Obama vetos Keystone XL.

David Pakman: CPAC excludes gay Republicans, welcomes white nationalists.

Department of Homeland Insolvency:

• WaPo: DHS Funding by the numbers
• Maddow: Republicans in knots over DHS funding

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about makeup.

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

Young Turks: The Obama-hate bubble is FULL of stunning beliefs.

Knuckle-dragging Climate Denier:

• Crazy Senator throws a snowball on Senate floor
• Young Turks: Nutcase Sen. James Inhofe throws a snowball.

How you are accidentally helping the Koch brothers:

Jon: FAUX News’ 50 lies in 6 seconds.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally turns 10 years old this Tuesday. Please join us in our celebration. There are rumors that founding hosts Nick and Lee will make an appearance. I’ll be handing out copies of “Drinking Liberally: 10 Years In Poetry.” There will be food. There will be drinks. There will be conversation. Will you be there?

We meet every Tuesday evening—birthday or not—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. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. The Woodinville, Kent, and Spokane chapters meet on Thursday. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.

There are 189 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Mental Floss: Why does asparagus make your pee smell?.

Global Divestment Day: 2015.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: The GOP civil war brewing between House and Senate Republicans.

Pap and David Pakman: The progressive solution to the student loan crisis.

Eight people who have accomplished more than you at every age.

America’s Racist Mayor:

• Young Turks: Is Guiliani a “love truther” or just a racist asshole?
• WAPO: Why aren’t Republicans condemning Giuliani?:

• Josh Earnest: “I feel sorry for Rudy Giuliani today.”
• Young Turks: Giuliani makes excuses for his racism…

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses—Chuck Schumer edition.

Richard Fowler: Republican lawmaker wants to own women’s uteri.

To prison for poverty.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: The wheels are falling off the Republican clown car.

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

Pap and Howard Nations: GOP mad scientists create a disaster.

Climate change elevator pitch: Ken Calderia.

2016 Clown Parade:

• Thom: Jeb has a Bush problem
• David Pakman: Jeb Bush gives cringeworthy speech. (Who does that remind you of?)
• Young Turks: Jeb Bush is just like his brother in the scariest way
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: The mystery woman behind corrupt Chris Christie’s shady dealings
• Maddow: Jeb Bush’s campaign launch blunders
• Pap: Scott Walker’s criminal scandal is worse than you think.
• Pranking Scott Walker (a.k.a. Governor Koch):
  http://youtu.be/h3GVQEFBI94
• Chris Hayes and friends: Scott Walker Didn’t Get A College Degree. Should You?
• David Pakman: “Freedom” Sen. Rand Paul opposes net neutrality?!?
• David Pakman: Nut case Sen. Rand Paul’s epic backtrack on vaccines & mental disorders
• Richard Fowler: Bobby Jindal slashes education budget

Mental Floss: Misconceptions from the internet.

David Pakman: Republicans about to go Benghazi on net neutrality.

Young Turks: Mother Jones catches Bill O’Reilly lying about Falkland Island War coverage:

Sam Seder: Watch this anti-net neutrality ad accidentally backfire on their message.

White House: West Wing Week.

Thom: Does the GOP want to starve poor people?

War Without End, Amen:

• Mark Fiore: The long war of foreverness.
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: War powers and the erosion of Democracy.

Obama’s lunar new year message.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Young Turks: Judging Rush Limbaugh’s statements about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Lawrence O’Donnell: Was TX judge blocking executive order even legal?

David Pakman: Conservative convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza calls Obama ‘ghetto’.

Mental Floss: 80 facts about the 1980s.

Thom with more Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

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

It’s Tuesday, and the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally will, once again, meet. As it happens, this meeting is the last week of our ninth year since the inaugural meeting of the Seattle chapter. That’s right…next Tuesday will be the tenth anniversary of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. That’s a huge number of meetings, and a boat-load of political conversation floating in an ocean of beer.

Please join us. We meet every Tuesday evening 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. Tonight the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Shelton chapters also meet. The Kent chapter meets on Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

There are 189 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions from television.

Sam Seder: New PA Gov. suspends death penalty.

John Green: Understanding Boko Haram:

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

The Fog of War:

• Mark Fiore: Brian Williams and the fog of war.
• Cenk on Brian Williams
• Pap and Sam: The scary pathology of Brian Williams
• Jimmy Dore: “Hey everybody, fire Brian Williams.”
• David Pakman: William’s name disappears….
• Maher: The real problem for Brian Williams

Jon: FAUX News wants a Muslim King for President.

Thom: More Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

Ann Telnaes: Alabama resists civil rights again.

Young Turks: Senator Inhofe caught using fake photos of Russian invasion to push for military aid.

Climate Change and Denial:

• This is what 8000 people marching for real climate Leadership looks like.
• Sam Seder: FAUX News’ most batshit insane climate denial segment ever?
• David Pakman: Dumbshit Pat Robertson claims snow in Boston disprove climate change.
• Greenman: Climate change elevator pitch with Eric Rignot.
• David Pakman: FAUX News had to “give up her freedom” because of snowstorm and climate change “hoax”.
• Young Turks: FAUX News nutbag suggests climate change “hoax” costs us our freedom!

Obama: “Can I live?” The Buzzfeed video.

Young Turks: A woman without an identity.

West House: West Wing Week.

Perpetual War:

• Liberal Viewer: Should Congress declare war on ISIS?
• Thom with Alan Grayson: ISIS and perpetual war.
• Sam Seder: Obama’s perpetual war?
• David Pakman: Obama wants war authorization

Mental Floss: 23 weird awards.

Joe Biden misses his butt buddy?!?

David Pakman: NYC Mayor Calls for $15/hr minimum wage.

Matt Binder: The Crusades were in self-defense?: The bizarre Wingnut historical revisionism.

Jon is Leaving:

• Cenk: Jon is leaving
• David Pakman: Jon is leaving.
• HuffPo: Jon is is leaving….
• Chris Hayes: Jon Stewart destroyed Rumsfeld & CNN ‘Crossfire’
• Rush Limbaugh bloviates about what he thinks is the reason Jon is leaving.
• Young Turks: Who will replace Jon?
• James Rustad: Welcome back Kilborn
• Sam Seder: Jon Stewart’s legacy

Elizabeth Warren preempts GOP on Dodd-Frank rollbacks for large banks.

Young Turks: FAUX News caught reading RNC memo word for word.

Pap with Howard Nations: The IRS is soft on dark money.

Thom: Don’t be fooled…the Koch brothers are NOT social liberals.

Maddow: Dearth of inspectors raises pipeline risks:
http://youtu.be/_ty2pk7a9js

Mental Floss: Why is the heart associated with love?

President’s Day: February’s sexiest holiday.

The 2016 Clown Parade:

• Sam Seder: Shock as Scott Walker dodges the evolution question.
• Young Turks: Scott Walker punts on evolution.
• Sam Seder: What does Rush Limbaugh know about Scott Walker?
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Rand Paul quickly caves to Bibi & principles
• Michael Brooks: Don’t be fooled…Republican (presidential candidates) are certainly not concerned about inequality!
• Young Turks: Rand Paul caught lying about his college record.
• Matt Binder: Alex Jones’ crazy sexist rant defending Rand Paul
• David Pakman: Shocking poll…58% of IA GOP think Joni Ernst has what it takes to be president

Thom: Even more Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

Maddow: Elvis leaves the Mississippi GOP.

Ann Telnaes: A flock of media sheep:

Kimmel: The collective wisdom of Pat Robertson.

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

Please join us for drinks, conversation, and political prognostication at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but feel free to stop by earlier than that for dinner.

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

There are 188 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.