Don’t be a fool…join us tonight for an evening of political punditry 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 may show up even 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. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. For Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma chapters meet. On Friday, the Enumclaw chapter meets. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue 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.

WaPo: Who is Obamacare targeting?

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Sharpton: The GOP health care freakout.

Daily Show: Dating young.

More Proof Right Wingers Have Satire Deficit Disorder:

• Sam Seder with Film Guy Matthew Weiss: #CancelColbert and satire dies.
• Young Turks: Conservative idiots completely miss the point of satire.

David Pakman: Republican states take the most government handouts.

Chris Hayes: What ‘Redskin’ means to an American Indian.

WaPo: Late night laughs, political roundup.

Thom: Rick Scott is a murderer & Charlene Dill is his victim.

Ann Telnaes: Secret Service needs to go on the wagon.

Most Incompetent Defense Secretary of State Ever Babbles About Stuff:

• Sam Seder: Crazy old guy speaks about Afghanistan.
• Young Turks: Looser Donald Rumsfeld criticizes Obama over Afghanistan:

Robert Reich: WhatsApp with stagnant job growth?.

Sam Seder: Pat Robertson thinks Christians are oppressed because they cannot stone gays.

Mental Floss: 44 facts about the U.S. Presidents.

Just days left: Get covered!

Thom: Why not put America first, GOP?

Sam Seder: A ballsy political ad.

Daily Show: The Morning Joe Dysfunctional Family.

Corporate Religion:

• Ed and Pap: The Hobby Lobby fraud.
• Mark Fiore: Religious liberty for corporations
• Abby Martin: How “corporate personhood” is restricting birth control.
• Factivists: Hobby Lobby
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Religious freedom and corporations.
• Pap and Thom: Hobby Lobby’s Anti Obamacare holy war
• Hobby Lobby Responds.
• Sam Seder and Dahlia Lithwick: Hobby Lobby at SCOTUS
• Thom: What god does Hobby Lobby pray to?

Liberal Viewer: Claim Edward Snowden is a Russian spy is entirely evidence-free.

Ed: Autopsied Republicans to model themselves after ‘Dominos’:

Ari Melber: Fact-checking GOP’s ‘economics guru’ Rep. Paul Ryan.

Alex Wagner: Georgia Republicans to allow guns in churches, bars, libraries, etc.

David Pakman: George Zimmerman wants to be a civil rights attorney.

Stephen celebrates the morning shows.

Young Turks: Should college football players unionize?

Stealing the 2014 vote: Republicans ramping up vote-rigging laws for elections.

More Christie Minstrel Show:

• Pap and Thom: Christie clears self.
• Sam Seder: Chris Christie’s lawyer clears Chris Christie…blames women for bridge.
• Ed: Chris Christie is back to bullying tactics on health care
• Bridgegate: Why Gov. Christie really fired Bridget Kelly.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Christie exonerates Christie!

White House: West Wing Week.

Sharpton: Georgia Republicans will start drug testing food stamp recipients soon.

Richard Fowler: Obama to call for ending NSA phone data collection.

WaPo: Kochs’ latest misleading ad.

David Pakman: Georgia house passes “guns everywhere” bill.

Jon: More #mcconnelling….and #meconnelling and #mitchtake and #mcconnellhey.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally has a new home! After more than two months of searching, the group has decided to settle at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle.

So please join us for a housewarming celebration this Tuesday evening. We meet at 8:00 pm, but some folks show up even earlier than that for dinner.

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

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.

Truth Mashup: Glenn Beck’s crazy defense of anti-gay bill .

John Green: Is the American Dream real?:

Sam Seder: Poor Mitt Romney doesn’t want to be remembered as a loser.

Spying on the Senate:

• Desk to Desk: Explaining the CIA search allegations.
• Sen Feinstein’s double standard.
• Mark Fiore: Bestest Friends.

Thom: What do cancer and Reaganomics have in common?

Mental Floss: 21 mind-blowing now-extinct life forms.

Is this World War III.

Obama Nation:

• Obama calls Putin.

Barely Political meets the President.

Obama between two O’Reillys.

Pap and Thom: Another week, another GOP voter suppression bill.

The Prosecution of the Uber-rich:

• Sam Seder: Another demented billionaire says addressing inequality is Nazi talk.
• Sam Seder: Why do crazy rich people keep talking about Nazism?
• Sam Seder: Billionaire Home Depot founder apologizes for calling us Nazis.

Ann Telnaes: The high cost of the Iraq war.

The Law and Lesbians:

• It’s hard for a lesbian to get a proper stoning these days!
• Young Turks: So, a lesbian knocks on a church door….

Newsy News: CPAC, Crimea & Masturbation.

AC370—Breaking News:

• Young Turks: A freaking psychic?!?!
• Matt Binder: Rupert Murdoch’s insane Malaysia airplane conspiracy theory.
• Young Turks: What Noah’s Ark tells us about Flight 370.
• Sam Seder: CNN W.T.F?!?
• Young Turks: Chuck Todd rips CNN.
• Young Turks: FAUX News host blames flight 370 disappearance on Muslims.

David Pakman: Harry Reid, “Republicans are addicted to Koch”.

Things to do in your 20s: Get Covered:

Republicans Target Millennials in New Ads:

• Paycheck–The Original
• Paycheck with Last Week Tonight goodness
• All of the Above–The Original
• All of the Above with Last Week Tonight goodness
• Sam Seder: The G.O.P.’s bizarre millennial advertisement.
• Young Turks: GOP launches ad campaign courting minorities.

Sam Seder’s moving rememberance of Fred Phelps.

Maher: New Rules (via Crooks and Liars).

White House: West Wing Week.

Republicans Say the Darnedest Things:

• Richard Fowler: Paul Ryan is really convinced poor people are lazy
• Paul Ryan: The inner city expert.
• Richard Fowler takes on Paul Ryan’s stupid, racist comments
• Sharpton: Republicans still obsessed with Black “cheats”.
• Pap and Sam Seder: Why Republicans should not use Twitter.
• Truth Mashup: Watch Republicans dodge Ted Nugent questions.
• Sam Seder: Nutjob Chicago Republican, “gay rights are responsible for natural disasters, mental disorders”.

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

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Please join us tonight (Tuesday) as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally makes a second visit to the Traveler Montlake, 2307 24th Ave E in Seattle. This week we will make a decision on our new home (which will be either the Roanoke Park Place Tavern or Traveler Montlake). We meet at 8:00 pm, but some folks show up early for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another nearby DL meeting over the next week. The Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters also meet this Tuesday. The Lakewood and South Seattle chapters meet this Wednesday. For Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma 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.

Anna Kasparian: Racist MN GOP Rep. labels NBA players as criminals.

Paul Ryan’s Clown Show:

• Sam Seder: Paul Ryan suggests black men are lazy.
• David Pakman: Paul Ryan lifts CPAC speech plot from a book
• Sam Seder: Idiot Rep. Paul Ryan says he meant ALL poor people are lazy.
• Shapton: The GOP vicious war on subsidized school lunches.
• Pap and Sam Seder: Paul Ryan’s lunch lies
• Sam Seder: Paul Ryan can help himself from making up a story at CPAC.

David Pakman: Uninsured rate goes down under Obamacare.

Thom: The failed private prison experiment.

ONN: DHS report says leading cause of death is God needing angels.

Thom: Antioch College to run on green energy.

Young Turks: Shocking 9/11 Chris Christie scandal:

Ann Telnaes: “The CIA wouldn’t do that”.

Sam Seder: Nutjob Republican woman refuses to believe Obamacare is saving her money.

Stephen: U.S. Government’s ballzy lawsuit over spying program.

Mental Floss: 26 outrageous truths about children’s television.

David Pakman: A NC Republican frontrunner claims Planned Parenthood wants to kill babies.

Mark Fiore: The anti-gay law in Uganda & the miracle of denial.

Maddow: Women lose health options under GOP anti-abortion law in TX:

Abby Martin and friends: Fukushima three years later.

Between Two Ferns:

• Zach and Barack.
• Young Turks: FAUX Outrage!!!!
• Sam Seder: The Freakout.
• David Pakman: Bill-O-The-Clown, “Lincoln wouldn’t do that!”
• Young Turks: Bill-O-The-Clown goes stupid
• Chris Hayes: Bill-O’s unpresidential claim
• Sam Seder: Bill-O-the-Clown claims Lincoln would never to this!
• Dennis Trainor, Jr: Obama on Between Two Ferns.
• Pap and Sam Seder: Are conservatives humorless?
• Stephen: Outraged!
• Sam Seder: Obama promotes health care between two ferns.

Stephen is torn by pot.

White House: West Wing Week.

WaPo: Francis Collins on the art of leading scientists.

Jon rips Eric Bolling over FAUX’s shaming of SNAP recipients (via Crooks and Liars).

Absurdity Today: News of the week.

Liberal Viewer: Ronald Reagan hero worship goes too far.

Sharpton: Gov. Jindal gets stupid a CPAC.

Happy Pi day.

Bachmann’s Gay Concern Trolling:

• Ed: Michele’s gay bullies!
• Sharpton: Rep. Michele Bachmann says the gay community has ‘bullied’ Americans.

Fallon: Vladimir Putin’s new Kickstarter:

Sam Seder: Something Obama can do for workers that Congressional Republicans cannot stop.

Jon: #McConnelling.

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

Sam Seder: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio stands up to charter school madness.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

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

As you know, the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally has been searching for a new home for the past couple of months. In the process we have visited eight Seattle pubs looking for a place that works well for our group.

Last week, the group picked two finalists (Roanoke Park Place Tavern and Traveler Montlake), and we will revisit each one over the next two week.

This evening (Tuesday) we will make our second visit to the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. We meet at 8:00 pm, but some folks show up even earlier than that for dinner.

Can’t make it tonight? Check out another Washington state meeting of DL over the next week. The Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Redmond chapters also meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. On Thursday the Bremerton chapter meets. The Centralia chapter meets on Friday. 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: FAUX News’ obsession with food stamps.

Pap: The G.O.P. fear machine.

Things there are fewer of than Republican repeal votes:

Young Turks: Pat Robertson offers genetics advice to cousins that want to marry.

CPAC Lunacy:

• Young Turks: Even a gun couldn’t save this CPAC speech.
• Sharpton: CPAC Day 1, Teh Stupid Unleashed
• Sam Seder: CPAC 2014, Day 1.
• Chris Christie: From Snub to Star at CPAC.
• Young Turks debunk a BS Paul Ryan story at CPAC.
• Sam Seder: CPAC has panel on how to deny climate change

Pap: Koch Brothers are buying Congress.

WaPo: D.C. marijuana bill explained.

David Pakman: Ted Nugent tells some whoppers.

White House: West Wing Week.

O’Donnell: The titanic battle ahead in Texas.

Stephen “praises” Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

The IRS Non-scandal Reemerges:

• Sharpton: Democrats call for Darrell Issa’s ouster.
• Young Turks: Car thief Darrell Issa awkwardly cuts off Rep. Cummings mic.
• Sam Seder: Elijah Cummings calls out phoney IRS house hearings.
• Sharpton: Republican leaders are as ugly as their radio hosts.

Maddow: Chris Christie’s offensive tone.

Young Turks: Record number of Americans support gay rights.

ONN: Onion Week in Review.

Daily Show: FAUX Business commentator says stupid shit in interview.

Ed: Republicans are trying to divert funding from public to charter schools.

John Oliver’s new show…a promo.

Ukraine Punditry:

• David Pakman: No, Sarah Palin didn’t predict the Russia–Ukraine issue.
• Mark Fiore: Ukraine Bites.
• John Green: Ukraine explained:
• Ann Telnaes: Palin pontificates
• Sam Seder: Sarah Palin, “I can see your mom jeans from my back porch
• Chris Hayes: Republicans have “Putin Envy”.
• David Pakman: Paul Ryan’s bizarre “solution” to the Ukraine problem
• WaPo: Breaking Vlad.
• Sam Seder: “Putin invaded because Benghaaaaaaaaazi”, says Nutjobber Sen. Lindsy Graham (R-SC)

Jon: Republicans shafting veterans.

The Republican’s Operation Oxymoron.

WaPo: Lincoln exhibit tells story of presidential guard.

Pap: The G.O.P.s new voter suppression efforts.

Sam Seder: Maine Republican lawmaker, “if abortion is legal so, too, should be rape.

Mental Floss: 27 amazing facts about comics.

Stephen knocks Bill-O-the-Clown for knocking Hillary.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally has been nomadic for the past two months. This week we return to our natal home. The former Montlake Ale House is under new management, with a new menu, and a remodeled interior.

So please join us tonight for a homecoming visit to Traveler Montlake, 2307 24th Ave E in Seattle. We meet at 8:00 pm, but some folks show up early for dinner.

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

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: What Ronald Reagan really did.

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

Michele Obama introduces the food label of the future.

Sam Seder: Threat of the Comcast—TWC merger.

Maddow on GOP Vote Rigging in Ohio:

• Part I
• Part II

Stephen: FAUX News’ double age standard.

Daily Show: Why health care is a right.

Obama: About Ukraine:

Ana Kasparian: Stop corporate money from killing our democracy.

Stephen unmasks his “Laser Klan” cartoon.

White House: West Wing Week.

O’Donnell: More emails in BridgeGate.

Pap: GOP obstruction is destroying the Judicial system.

“In Jesus Name…we discriminate”

• Mark Fiore: .
• David Pakman: Gays under attack in Uganda.
• Young Turks: Americans hate Uganda’s hate law.
• Ed: right-wing reaction to Gov. Brewer’s veto.
• Sam Seder: The never-end hypocrisy of the religious right
• Young Turks: Reaction to Gov. Brewer’s veto.
• Ann Telnaes: Anti-gay discriminate smackdowns.
• O’Donnell: Vetoed in AZ, but moving forward in other states.
• Clean up those video stores.
• Chris Hayes: Where did the rash of anti-gay bills come from?
• Young Turks: The “Homo Deamons” Pastor caper.
• Jon: Arizona’s ‘morally repugnant’ anti-gay discrimination bill
• Sam Seder: Rush complains that liberals are turning NFL into a gay laboratory.

Obama: My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

Mental Floss: 15 inaccuracies found in common science illustrations.

Modeley Braun on why black women don’t get elected.

Sharpton: Like hungry dogs, Republicans continue to attack ‘ObamaCare’.

Jon ‘unfucked’ FAUX Business facts in slavery (via TalkingPointsMemo).

Black Senators on lack of diversity in Congress.

Jon has some fun with Bitcoin.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally continues its tour of Seattle’s finest pubs. We are in search of a new place to call home. If you can, please join us this Tuesday evening for some political punditry and pub prognostication over a pint.

This week we will visit the Moe Bar, 1425 10th Avenue
Seattle. We meet at 8:00 pm, but some folks show up early for dinner.

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

Ana Kasparian: Leave the Rich Alone!!!!

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

White House: West Wing Week.

Cable Cabal:

• Anna Kasparian: Will consumers get screwed by the Comcast—TWC deal.
• Jonathan Mann: I Hate Comcast and TWC.
• David Pakman: Comcast and TWC merger is terrible for consumers.
• Thom: Comcast—TWC is an affront to Public Interest.
• Young Turks: Comcast’s devastating admission about merger

Sharpton: Ohio Republicans pushing new bills to suppress voting:

Jon: ‘Meth Labs Of Democracy’ (via Crooks and Liars.

ONN: Onion Week in Review.

Outrageous Anti-Science Positions of Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC):

• Maddow: Part I.
• Maddow: Part II.

Pap and David Pakman: The Wall Street Secret Society.

Young Turks: Nutburger Tom Delay, “God created this nation. He wrote the Constitution….”.

WaPo: So you want to sue the White House?

Mark Fiore: Jack Gerrard’s American Petroleum Institute.

Discrimination:

• Ann Telnaes: Disguising anti-gay discrimination.
• Ana Kasparian: U.S. Evangelicals spreading the their anti-gay “gospel”.
• Sam Seder and Charlie Pierce: Kansas anti-gay bill legalizes discrimination
• Young Turks: Bad news for anti-gay Christians In Kansas.
• Ann Telnaes: Romney—Don’t let the courts rule on marriage equality.

Lawrence O’Donnell: The Koch ‘polluting’ Brothers are already dishing truckloads of cash to the GOP.

Sam Seder and Charlie Pierce: Why there’s no Republican party anymore.

Pap and Thom: GOP obstruction is killing the judiciary.

WaPo: The debt ceiling deniers.

Scott Walker’s Bridge to New Jersey:

• Richard Fowler: Gov. Scott Walker lies about voting for Reagan.
• Chris Hayes: The Emails that may derail Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI).
• David Pakman: Scott Walker “John Doe” investigation reveals staff’s racist, anti-gay emails leaked.
• Ed: Badger-Gate is a new ‘governor problem’ for the GOP
• Chris Hayes: Is Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) worse than Chris Christie?

The GOP Plan: Repeal, repeal, repeal.

Alan Grayson on Ted Cruz:

Ed: VW sides with UAW after GOP intimidates workers.

Mental Floss: 50 facts about 50 state Capitals.

David Pakman: “Joe” the anti-union “plumber” takes a union job.

The Christie Minstrel Show:

• Chris Hayes: Did Christie misappropriate relief funs?
• Sam Seder and Charlie Pierce: Christie trudges on…but for how long?
• Young Turks: Christie v. Palin…the fur flies
• Maddow: The corruption of NY/NJ Port Authority’s David Samson
• Chris Hayes: Chris Christie meets voters for the first time post Bridge-Gate
• Alex Wagner: The Christie Town Hall
• Sharpton: Gov. Chris Christie holds town hall in ‘friendly turf’

David Pakman: Madman Glenn Beck considers burning the American flag.

Richard Fowler: The GOP civil war rages on.

Thom: The GOP refusal to expand Medicaid is a disaster.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally is still on tour investigating the fine pubs of Seattle. Eventually, we will settle on a new place to call home. If you can, please join us on our tour.

This evening we will visit The Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. We meet at 8:00 pm, but some folks show up even earlier than than for dinner.

Can’t make it? Check out another nearby DL meeting over the next week. The Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters also meet this Tuesday. The Lakewood and South Seattle chapters meet this Wednesday. For Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma 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.

Mental Floss: 40 weird word origins.

David Pakman: AGAIN?!? Rand Paul accused of plagiarizing Obama lawsuit.

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

Absurdity Today: Comcast screws up and tells truth.

Political Olympics

• Thom: Olympic politics in Sochi.
• Bill Maher with a New Rule for the anti-gay mayor of Sochi
• Richard Fowler: Four gay activists arrested in Russia.
• Jon: It’s colder in Florida than at the Olympics.
• TJDS: Putin and the Olympics.

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: God will repeal ObamaCare….

Mark Fiore: ObamaCare Job Killers!

Young Turks: Terrible news about the deficit—if your afflicted with Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Kimmel: This Week in Unnecessary Censorship.

Default Averted:

• Sam Seder: Republicans pre-cave on debt ceiling.
• David Pakman: Republicans back down on debt ceiling.

Pap and Sam Seder: CBO report shows Republican illiteracy.

Sharpton: The latest anti-Obama GOP ‘Gestapo’ talking point.

Ed: Ted Cruz goes from stand up filibuster to stand up comedy.

Thom: The Sexy Liberal tour.

Stephen is the first lady of France.

The Christie Minstrel Show:

• Maddow: New subpoenas issued
• Ann Telnaes: Christie thinks George W. Bush is underappreciated.
• Ed: 18 subpoenas for Christie.
• Young Turks: Celebrating unfairness in the Chris Christie case.
• O’Donnell: The NJ Star-Ledger calls for Gov. Christie’s resignation

Abby Martin: Top 5 crazy weaponized animals.

Pap: Billionaires defend greed.

David Pakman: SC removes evolution from science standards.

Young Turks: Heterosexuals are under attack, says Rush Limbaugh.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Rep. Cathy McMorrs Rodgers claims to be for equal pay, votes against it repeatedly:

O’Donnell: Reaction to Michael Sam….

Political Valentine:

• Sam Seder and Charlie Pierce: FAUX and Fiend’s freaky Valentine’s day
• Roy Zimmerman: Anything for You.
• Abby Martin: The sadomasochistic origin of Valentine’s Day.

Sam Seder: Michele Bachman’s reason for no immigration reform (hint: Immigrants aren’t Republicans).

Young Turks: Did You Smoke Marijuana Marco Rubio?

Maddow: The shifting dynamics, pressures & loyalties within the GOP.

Thom: Should felons have voting rights?

Obama speaks on raising the minimum wage.

Facebook adds gender options.

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