Thom: Boost the economy by forgiving student loans.

ONN: Onion Week in Review.

Gun Nutz:

• Sam Seder: Alex Jones’ How-to guide to false flags.
• Michael Eric Dyson: Radio LIAR Alex Jones shares ridiculous conspiracy on Las Vegas shooting.
• Alex Wagner: Nevada shooters linked to Cliven Bundy ranch
• Thom: Are open carriers terrorists?
• Pap and Michael Dyson: GOP rhetoric inspires mass killings
• Michael Eric Dyson: Right-Wing echo chamber helped spawn Las Vegas white supremacist shooters.
• David Pakman: Nutjobber Alex Jones claims Vegas shooter was a “False flag”.
• Mark Fiore: Jihadi Rifle Association.
• Matt Binder: Far Right in denial over shootings they influenced.
• Richard Fowler: Unreal…74th school shooting since Sandy Hook!
• Krystal Ball: The NRA and gun crime in America.
• Thom: Why isn’t Right-Wing terrorism called such?
• Sam Seder: Concealed carry cost this man his life in Vegas.

Science: Giant solar flares may have disrupted communications on Friday.

Pap and Seder: The dumbing down of America.

Jon: VA computers.

George Will is an Ignorant Asshole:

• Young Turks: FAUX News contributor believes college girls crave rape victim status
• Michael Brooks: Everybody wants to be sexually assaulted…for the status.

Eric Schwartz: Senator Whoever:

The bear is loose: Obama escapes.

The Daily Show considers Google Glass.

Stephen: Sen. Cruz’s citizenship.

Stuck in an airport and All By Myself.

WaPo: Five questions with Bill Gates.

More on Cantor’s Stunning Upset:

• David Pakman: Cantor loses to a college professor.
• Sam Seder and Peter Galuszka: Just how much did Cantor’s voters dislike him?
• Young Turks: Eric Cantor’s spending
• Jon: Cantor loss killed compromise… As if there was any left?
• Thom: The dark money that beat Eric Cantor.
• Chuck Todd interviews Prof. Brat
• David Pakman: Guy who beat Cantor is totally nuts.
• Young Turks: Cantor loses…should the corrupt be scared?
• Sam Seder: Brat won’t state his position on minimum wage.
• WaPo: Who is David Brat?
• Young Turks: Two words Boehner cannot say
• Ann Telnaes: America has lost its mind.
• Eric Cantor: The disaster movie
• Sam Seder: Goodbye!

How badly has Benghazi hurt Hillary Clinton? Not much.

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: Nutjobber Tony Perkins is worried that Obama will seize government and cancel 2016 election.

WaPo: Five incredible upsets in political history.

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

Young Turks: What news does America trust?

Mental Floss: 39 facts about comedy.

The Right Wing Terrorizes an American P.O.W.:

• Matt Binder: Rand Paul vs. Miss USA contestant on Bergdahl—Who makes more sense?
• Jon: FAUX News doesn’t know what a conscience is
• Joy Reid: Obama, “Absolutely no apologies for making sure we get back a young man to his parents.”
• David Pakman: Right Wing media doesn’t get to decide if Bergdahl is a deserter.
• Ann Telnaes: The many faces of Bill O’Reilly:

• Matt Binder: Taliban torturerd Bergdahl, now Conservatives threaten his family.
• Thom: The GOP are like meth addicts.
• Matt Binder: Who are the 5 Taliban swapped for Bergdhal?

Obama answers the question “Where do you see yourself in 10 years”.

WaPo: Late night laughs.

Alex Jones and friends think Obama is training military to attack Teabaggers (via Crooks and Liars).

Science: Solar roads?

Ann Telnaes: Republicans play with fire.

Alex Wagner: Students stand-up to hate-group, Westboro Baptist Church.

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

Jon: What the fuck is going on in Iraq.

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

Tuesday comes with a big bunch of primary or run-off elections in Arkansas, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Virginia. The races seem less competitive and consequential than the pile we had last week, but there may be some interesting surprises.

In any case, join us tonight for an evening of electoral 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. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Redmond chapters also meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. The Bremerton chapter meets on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima and Olympia chapters meet.

With 207 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Thom: The Vast Right-wing conspiracy.

Mental Floss: 83 old slang phrases that we should bring back.

Ann Telnaes: This is what Speech is and isn’t.

Hatein’ On an American POW?!?

• Mark Fiore: Bowe Bergdahl…Army of Wha’!?.
• Sam Seder: FAUX News’ Bergdahl psychobabble
• David Pakman: Republicans lose it over Bergdahl
• Thom: “Leave no man behind” comes with Conservative strings attached.
• Obama: “We do not leave anyone wearing the American uniform behind”:

  
  

• Young Turks: Sleeay politicians change their tweeks
• Chris Hayes: FAUX full scale beard attack
• Bergdhal and four other memorable prisoner swaps
• Last Word: The GOP’s prosecution of Bowe Bergdahl
• Liberal Viewer: POW vs. Terrorism—CNN anchor, House intel chair can’t tell difference?
• Ed: FAUX’s “bearded Bob Bergdahl”
• David Pakman: Conservatives despicable on Bowe Bergdahl release
• Matt Binder: Republicans attack freed American POW Bowe Bergdahl

A reverend’s evolution on gay rights.

David Pakman: “American Spring” is back, as 10 people assemble and yell ‘Benghazi’ at White House.

John Oliver reveals what he hates about Last Week Tonight.

Michael Brooks & Cliff Schecter: WIll McConnell’s career of lies finally catch up with him?.

Stephen takes on Amazon.

Thom: Will we see a constitutional amendment on Citizens United?.

Tiananmen Square After 25 Years:

• Tiananmen Square: 25 years later.
• Ann Telnaes: Hiding the truth about Tiananmen Square.
• Sam Seder: Republicans deleting their praise of US POW Bowe Bergdahl’s release

Young Turks: Why Stephen Colbert should be proud and the media ashamed.

David Pakman: The five craziest bills passed by Republicans last month.

White House: West Wing Week.

Gun in the News…Again:

• Young Turks: NRA bows to the big huge guns everywhere lobby
• Jon: How stupid open carry is.
• Michael Brooks & Cliff Schechter: Guns keep harming Americs
• Young Turks: Gunman kills one at Seattle University.
• David Pakman: Joe the Plumber, “Guns are for hunting down politicians”

Zina Saunders: Save our bees:

Thom takes apart Dinesh D’Souza.

Stephen: On the Clinton conspiracy theories.

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

Today is a special day in the Calendar of Political Americana. It’s National Fist Bump Day, a day to remember a young Sen. Barack and Michelle Obama using a body gesture in public that so befuddled FOX News anchor E.D. Hill that she asked, “A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?!?.”

The idea behind National Fist Bump Day is to give Americans a chance to make the world a slightly better place with a simple and fun gesture of respect,” says David Weiner, one of the organizers, along with Sarah Greenwalt. “It may not solve the world’s problems, but it can at least reaffirm the fact that in the end, we all can get down with each other.

Wait…screw that Kumbaya shit. It’s a day to ruthlessly mock the the fuck out of the right wing propaganda mill’s outrageous, dishonest, and racist attacks against Barack Obama.

Tuesday is also a primary election day of some consequence. In California, the top two-style primary will select the Republican that will go on to be crushed by Gov. Jerry Brown in the general election. There are a bunch of interesting House races in California, as well.

In Mississippi, the senior Sen. Thad Cochran (R) is in a tight race against a Teabagger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel.

In South Dakota, a large Republican primary will determine the opponent for Rick Weiland (D) in the U.S. Senate seat race opened up by the retirement of Sen. Tim Johnson (D).

A similar scenario is happening in Iowa with the retirement of Sen. Tom Harkin (D), and a 5-way GOP primary will determine the opponent for Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA-01). Of course, Braley’s House seat is open and there are competitive races on both sides of the isle in that race.

In Montana, Sen. John Walsh (D), who was appointed to the seat that Max Baucus left to become U.S. Ambassador to China, seems likely to win the Democratic primary. Also in Montana, the open house seat has a five-way GOP primary that will select an opponent for  John Lewis (D).

In New Mexico, there is a five-way primary that will determine Gov. Susan Martinez’s (R) Democratic opponent.

New Jersey has a primary election, as well, with some mildly interesting House races.

So, with all that excitement on deck, please join us tonight for an evening of electoral politics and scary body gestures over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. They’re everywhere! The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this and every Tuesday night. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. For Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma chapters meet. And the Enumclaw chapter meets on Friday.

With 207 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: How the far right took over the Republican party.

White House: West Wing Week.

Chris Hayes: The G.O.P.s hopeless fight against science:

David Pakman: Ted Cruz’s nutburger father blames end of school prayer for teen pregnancy & crime.

Sharpton: Rebrand update on the GOP’s new ‘leadership” team

VA Scandal:

• Mark Fiore: VA Hotline Updates.
• Young Turks: Shinseki resigns
• WaPo: Vets speak out on the VA scandal
• Young Turks: Sarah Palin on VA scandal, “Illegal immigrants get better health care than veterans”

Michael Brooks: Mitch McConnell’s amazingly deceptive ObamaCare distortion.

The G.O.P. summer of scandal.

Young Turks: Boehner, “I’m not qualified to debate science so I reject it!

Maddow: The latest Republican Senator to run away from CNN.

100 Seattle cops file lawsuit against city and Justice Dept.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Chris Hayes: The GOP’s miserable campaign for ‘junk-food’ in schools.

Ari Melber: The Republican ‘overreach’ of 2014 could flop badly in the midterms.

Ann Telnaes: Manning Up.

The Only Way to Stop a Bad Guy With a Gun, is the Bad Guy With the Gun:

• Ann Telnaes: The Sick, the Bad, and the Ugly.
• David Pakman: The truth about gun safety
• Michael Brooks: Joe the Plumber to shooting victim family, “Your dead kid doesn’t trump my gun rights.”
• Thom: The truth about the second amendment
• Young Turks: Response to disgusting UC Santa Barbara shooter supporter
• FAUX News edits out grieving father’s criticism of NRA and politicians.
• David Pakman: Glenn Beck blames progressives on CA shooting
• Thom: Not one more

Mental Floss: 26 famous art heists.

Obama: Jay Carney steps down (via Crooks and Liars).

Suzie Sampson: Let it Go!:

Young Turks: Congressman Louie Gohmert calls gays intolerant, just like Nazis!.

Sharpton: KY Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn’t realize KYNECT is part of ObamaCare.

Ana Kasparian: “Abortion Barbie” posters hit LA streets.

Ann Telnaes: We’re Number 1…for the wrong reason.

Rich Webster: Marco Rubio is not an abortion scientist.

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

It’s happening again. The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally is holding its weekly gathering for an evening of politics over a pint.

Please join us tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. They’re everywhere! The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this and every Tuesday night. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 207 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Jonathan Mann: The Arctic is melting.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Chris Hayes: Fox’s “ace” “criminal-reporter” James O’Keefe’s BUSTED on latest bogus claim:

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Is Mitch McConnell about to lose reelection?.

David Pakman: Right-winger, Dinesh D’Souza, pleads guilty to felony.

Mental Floss: 47 charming facts about children’s books.

Refining Marriage:

• Sam Seder: Judge strikes down same sex marriage ban in Oregon.
• Richard Fowler: Gay marriage backers win out in Pennsylvania.
• Ann Telnaes: The evolution of marriage.
• WaPo: Philly celebrates ruling against same-sex marriage ban.

Adam Carolla for President.

Thom: The birth of the Kochtopus.

FCC responds to net neutrality ruling.

David Pakman: Ex-Christie aide says Christie was told about Bridgegate plans.

Thom: If the fast food industry can’t pay its workers a living wage, then it has no business doing business in America.

Young Turks: Rush Limbaugh deaf, dumb, and colorblind?

Macklemore than Meets the Eye?

• Newsy: Anti-Semitic stereotype or harmless fun?
• David Pakman: Macklemore dresses up as offensive Jewish caricature.
• Young Turks: Macklemore “Jewish” costume, is he stupid, racist or both?

Jon on the NRA’s opposition to smart guns.

Sam Seder: (Wheel of Fortune’s) Pat Sajak is a climate change denying nutburger.

WaPo: The music of the civil rights movement.

Mark Fiore: AntiTrust Us!

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Cover-up:

• Jon slams GOP for VA scandal hypocrisy.
• Young Turks: Rush Limbaugh deaf, dumb, and colorblind?
  ‘>Bill-O challenges Rove on VA care
• Young Turks: VA Scandal explained

Chris Hayes: “Repeal The World”, the Teabagger’s Kamikaze platform.

David Pakman: The most sickening political stunt of the year.

Ed: Pat Sajak’s “wheel of climate denial”.

White House: West Wing Week.

Sharpton: A ‘kinder’ GOP unveils new mean manifesto to roll back America 50 years.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Is PA about to elect their most Progressive governor ever?

Jake Tapper’s political cartoons.

Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.

Some Yahoo Named Yoho:

• Sam Seder: Wingnutburger Ted Yoho (R-FL), “Only property owners should be able to vote.”
• Sharpton: Republican Ted Yoho suggests only ‘property owners’ should vote!.

Jorge Ramos: Latinos will remember GOP racism on immigration in 2014 & 2016.

Ed: The GOP’s lies and misinformation about the U.S. Postal Service.

Thom: Sarah Palin’s death panels:

Jon: The Tea Party’s new host.

Maddow: Majority leader Eric Cantor abandons immigration reform. I.
Maddow: Majority leader Eric Cantor abandons immigration reform. II.

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

Tuesday is election night, with primaries in Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. There is bound to be some surprises and, with the Idaho gubernatorial GOP primary alone, much entertainment. So please join us tonight for an evening of electoral 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. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner and the early election returns.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters also meet this Tuesday. The Lakewood and South Seattle chapters meet this Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Woodinville and Spokane chapters meet.

With 209 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Got student dept? So do these politicians.

Greenman: Dark Snow Project, 2014:

Massive Right Wing March on Washington to Overtake the Government:

• David Pakman: “Patriotic” group march on D.C. to drive Obama from office.
• Young Turks: Operation American Spring!!!
• Maddow: Arrest Obama, Pt 1
• Maddow: Arrest Obama, Pt 2
• Sam Seder reports on “Operation American Spring” that calls for millions to overthrow Obama.

Thom: Why Mitch McConnell should be fired for VA Death Panels.

Liberal Viewer: Are most terrorists Muslim?

Ann Telnaes: Chris Christie is back to his charming self.

Stephen takes on #BringBackOurGirls.

Pap: Big Pharma’s deceitful practices.

The Totally Normal Idaho GOP Gubernatorial Primary Debate:

• HuffPo: Lessons from the Idaho GOP Primary debate
• Highlights from the great Idaho debate.

• Young Turks: Idaho GOP debate gets kkkraaaaaaazzzzzyyyyyy.
• Chris Hayes: The Cartoonish GOP debate
• More highlights from Idaho.

Stephen calls BS on Amazon’s newest patent.

Thom: The GOP is no different from Boka Haram.

Donald Sterling’s inner monologue.

Jon explains India’s election.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Jon on Rush on Michelle on the kidnapped Nigerian girls (via TalkingPointsMemo).

Mental Floss: The surprising hobbies of many well known persons.

Sam Seder: The humiliating GOP Obamacare hearing.

Thom: Cliven Bundy is The Ugly American.

John Oliver’s How is this Still a Thing? Dressing up as other races.

BENGHAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZIIII!I!!11!!1!!!!!:

• Mark Fiore: Learn to speak BENGHAZI.
• Ed: Republicans engage in some more dishonesty….
• Sharpton: Why GOP’s Benghazi witch-hunt will never be Watergate.
• Ari Melber: The GOP fundraising stunt, Part I
• Ari Melber: The GOP fundraising stunt, Part II
• Alex Wagner: The big GOP recycle job, Part I
• Alex Wagner: The big GOP recycle job, Part II

White House: West Wing Week.

Stephen does Glen Greenwald.

Young Turks: White bred Republicans.

WaPo: The private life of Jacqueline Kennedy.

Morgan Ferretti: Brain damage and other awful things.

Dr. Karl Rove, M.D.:

• Young Turks: Karl Rove’s latest dirty trick
• Stephen is worried about Karl Rove’s brain AND ass.
• David Pakman: Hillary’s brain injury.
• Sam Seder: Disgusting Rove
• Jon: Donald Sterling and Karl Rove.
• Sharpton: KKKarl Rove gets schooled.

David Pakman: Right wing policies are literally killing women.

Eric Schwartz: STFU Ann Coulter:

Jon: The Media receive a miracle!

Thom: Why can’t we all be Sarah Palin?

Ann Telnaes: One man…lots of votes.

Young Turks: Free health clinics are closing…THANKS ObamaCare!!!

The FCC wishes happy 25th to the World Wide Web.

Sam Seder and Ari Berman: The Voter Fraud Myth.

Rubio Goes to School:

• Young Turks: Prof. Marco Rubio (R-Nutsville) on anthropogenic climate disruption..
• Sam Seder: Rubio thinks he knows more about climate change than climate scientists.
• Ari Melber: Marco Rubio, Rand Paul & the GOP’s “Flat Earth Society”
• Chris Hayes: Rubio and the GOP Climate Denialists
• Ed and Pap and Gov. Schweitzer: The dull brain of Marco Rubio.
• Joy-Ann Reid: Rubio on climate.
• David Pakman: Rubio is no climate scientist.

David Pakman: Even Mitt Romney says raise the minimum wage.

Jon rips Harry Reid for his Koch obsession and Adelson amnesia.

A Republican explains Godzilla:

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

Tuesdays are made for politics. So please join us this evening for some 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. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Redmond chapters also meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. For Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima and Olympia chapters meet.

With 215 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Jon: The NY State Senate’s great yogurt debate.

Mark Fiore: Creative Execution.

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

Richard Fowler: The tale of indicted GOP Rep. Michael Grimm.

Jon: Occupy Jail.

Monica Redux:

• Young Turks: She’s back!
• WaPo: Lewinsky’s top five targets in Vanity Fair.
• Ed: Lynn Cheney’s crazy conspiracy.
• Sharpton: Wingnuts go conspiratorial over Lewinsky story.
• Alex Wagner: The mythical power of The Clinton.
• Ann Telnaes: Cheney’s have a blue dress in their past, too.

Ed: Michele Bachmann launches mission to block National Women’s History Museum .

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News, “Huge Christian cross isn’t religous”.

FBI investigates Bundy supporters over death threats (via Crooks and Liars).

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: What’s the difference between Tea Party and Establishment Republicans?

Stephen: Everywhere is guns.

Mental Floss: 60 Regional foods you shouldn’t eat anywhere else.

Emily’s abortion video.

White House: West Wing Week.

Thom: Gov ID nightmare.

Bill Maher: New Rule for Justice Thomas.

BENGHAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZIIIIIII!!!!!1!!11!1! Derangement Disorder:

• David Pakman: FAUX and Fiends link Benghazi to missing flight….
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Benghazi and the GOP conspiracy machine
• Sharpton: GOP’s Benghazi clown act.
• Alex Wagner: The GOP’s Benghazi-funding strategy
• Thom: The FAUX News hardon for Benghazi.
• When in doubt…BENGHAAAAAZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIII!1!I!!!1!!!

• Matt Binder: FAUX News blames Nigerian girls’ kidnapping on…BENGHAAAAAAZZZZZIIIIII!!!!1!!1!
• David Pakman: Right wing media cashes in on Benghazi
• Chris Hayes: Over dead bodies—The GOP runs on #Benghazi
• Young Turks: Republicans raise money off the dead
• Reid Report: The GOP’s McCarthyism & Political witch-hunts of today
• Sam Seder and Digby: The politics of Benghazi
• Steve Kornacki: GOP Benghazi feeding frenzy, Part I
• Steve Kornacki: GOP Benghazi feeding frenzy, Part II

Stephen: Tip and Wag.

Thom: ALEC is trying to take down the EPA.

David Pakman: GOP ObamaCare hearing goes horribly wrong…for the GOP.

Maddow: Massachusetts Tea-Party politician, Mark Fisher’s million dollar ransom.

Sharpton: The death of a GOP talking point:

Richard Fowler: A huge week for minimum wage.

Jon: 2016 will be a lame remix of Bush and Clinton.

White House: Inside the WH solar panels.

Stephen interviews a teabagging vampire.

Ann Telnaes: Climate Change cooking.

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

It’s Tuesday, and that means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will be gathering for its evening of politics and pints. Please join us!

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

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. The Tri-Cities chapters also meets on Tuesday. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. On Thursday the Bremerton and Spokane chapters meet. And, the Centralia chapter meets on Friday.

With 214 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Ann Telnaes: Cardinal Dolan, loyal anti-gay marriage American.

Baptism by Palin:

• Jon reacts to Sarah Palin’s waterboarding comments.
• David Pakman: Sarah Palin on baptizing terrorists with waterboarding.

White House: West Wing Week.

Liberal Viewer: Will immigration reform pass Congress in 2014.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: The dangers of a Republican Senate.

David Pakman: SC’s bullshit “Stand Your Ground” law for fetuses.

Down Goes Wisconsin Draconian Voter ID Law:

• Young Turks: WI voting law struck down.
• Sam Seder: Judge rules WI voter ID law violates the Voter Rights Act.
• David Pakman: Federal Judge rules voter fraud almost never happens.

Jesse Ventura for President. Maybe.

Young Turks: Bundy ranch lunatic threatens U.S. Senator.

Michael Brooks: Scott Brown, “I’m totally not from MA!”

Sharpton: Republicans shamefully reject minimum wage bill.

SCTV: Hobby Lobby’s Employee “Benefits”.

Jon on how bad the government is.

Mental Floss: 32 car name meanings.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Seattle and the $15 minimum wage.

Stephen demands to know why Clay Aiken is running for Congress.

WaPo: Mark Pryor’s quiet Arkansas race.

The Week in Racism:

• Funny or Die: NBA conference highlights.
• Thom: Why the Koch brothers are behind Bundy.
• Larry Wilmore: What a week to be Senior Black Correspondent!
• Ana Kasparian: Clippers owner banned for life.
• David Pakman: Who is surprised the Donald Sterling is a racist?
• Funny or Die: Another leaked tape
• Sam Seder: Donald Sterling banned for life from NBA
• Maddow: Racism in U.S. Sports, Part I
• Maddow: Racism in U.S. Sports, Part II
• Chris Hayes and Bill Maher: On Donald Sterling, Part I.
• Chris Hayes and Bill Maher: On Donald Sterling, Part II.
• David Pakman: Bundy, “I am just like Rosa Parks!”
• Young Turks: Donald Trump is happy to defend Donald Sterling.
• David Pakman: Did you know that there is no racism in the Republican Party???
• Ann Telnaes: Racism is dead:
• Seth Meyers on Donald Sterling

Mark Fiore: NRA Hypnosis.

Late night laughs: Chelsea Clinton edition.

Absurdity today: If you Fucking LOVE SCIENCE and Fucking LOVE Laughing…

Jon is disappointed in Michael Grimm’s lame Healthalicious scandal.

Ed: Nutjobber Glenn Beck, “Hillary will be having sex with a woman on the White House desk.

WaPo: Could Sen. Warren be the next Obama?

BENGHAAAAAAAAZZZZZZIIIIIIIII!!!!!1!11!!!1!!

• Alex Wagner: Benghazi trufers pounce on newly declassified emails.
• Cenk gets angry about latest Benghazi conspiracy theory.

Thom: How George W. Bush screwed college students.

Sam Seder: Scalia embarrasses himself in botched opinion.

Roy Zimmerman: Cliven Bundy’s Cattle:

Ann Telnaes: The Oops factor in capital punishment.

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

Please join us 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. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. They’re everywhere! The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this and every Tuesday night. For Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. On Friday, the Enumclaw chapter meets. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 214 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Rep. Cyrus Habib (D-48 LD) is running for the 48th LD Senate seat as a Democrat, but will he have other opponents?

I live in the 48th, and have pondered this a bit. I haven’t heard any scuttlebutt about potential opponents. Given the importance of this seat—Dems won’t control the Senate without it, and Dems get some chance of controlling the Senate if they win it—I would be very surprised if the Republicans didn’t try recruiting some high profile candidate.

One high profile candidate would be the former state Senator Luke Esser (R-48). Esser was defeated by Tom in 2006 after Rep. Tom switched from R to D and ran for Senate. Esser went on to be state GOP chairman until being unseated by Kirby Wilbur in early 2011.

I doubt Esser will run. He likely burned his bridges with the GOP when he became a lobbyist for the SEIU.

What about Tom’s 2010 opponent Gregg Bennett? Bennett lost to Tom, 47.3% to 52.7%, a mere 1,400 votes that year. Still, Bennett has not declared and his former campaign web site is dead.

So, imagine my surprise and delight this afternoon when I received a polling robocall from Republican pollster Moore Information. The poll included a pair of head-to-head match-ups of a Republican against Democrat Cyrus Habib. The first match-up was Habib against Gregg Bennett.

The second match-up was surprising. It sure sounded like Butch Goncharoff. I could have misunderstood the last name, but that’s what I wrote down as the poll was in progress.

Who is Butch Goncharoff? He is the nationally-ranked football coach for Bellevue High School. Really? Why would a football coach run for a part-time Senate position that doesn’t align very well with the school year or the football season? Besides that, a brief web search reveals no information about Mr. Goncharoff’s political affiliation. The man is all football, all the time. The PDC has no record of donations from him. The only thing that has the slightest whiff of politics is that Rep. Dave Reichart (R-48) once gave a House floor speech to congratulate Coach Goncharoff and his team. Maybe he is a friend of Reichert? Or not.

Aside from some kind of mid-life crisis, a run by Goncharoff seems highly unlikely. Still…the domain names GoncharoffForCongress.org and GoncharoffFor48th.org are, oddly, unavailable. That’s interesting, but hardly conclusive.

I see several possibilities:

1. Neither is running and the state Republicans commissioned the poll as a way of recruiting either Bennett or Goncharoff.

2. Bennett is thinking about running and they are using some other high profile person in the 48th as a diversion—to leave some ambiguity.

3. Goncharoff is thinking about running and they are using Bennett as a diversion.

4. They have both expressed interest in running…for the good of the party, only one will.

So…it seems that someone has Bennett or Goncharoff in mind as an opponent for Habib.