The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight, and every Tuesday evening, for some political discussion over an ice cold drink.

We meet 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. We’re in the back room.

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 Spokane and Tacoma chapters meet.

With 202 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Ann Telnaes: America’s selective righteousness.

Sam Seder: The Hobby Lobby decision is already getting worse.

Rubin Report: Easiest and hardest places to live.

Mental Floss: 20 misconceptions about sex.

Maddow: Why Rick Perry will never be Prez, Part I
Maddow: Why Rick Perry will never be Prez, Part II

Thom: Time to fine-tune Washington’s pot laws.

John Oliver: Antartic tourism.

David Pakman: House may spend more on Banghazi panel than Veterans Affairs Committee.

Boehner, Bachmann & Steinweitz: Attorneys against deadbeat Presidents:

Washington Goes To Pot:

• Washington gets legal pot stores
• Young Turks: First to buy pot
• David Pakman: Legal pot sales in WA
• Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes “exercises this new personal freedom

Maddow: Right-wing Republican hypocrisy on prostitution scandals, Part I.
Maddow: Right-wing Republican hypocrisy on prostitution scandals, Part II.

Sam Seder: Fox and Friends humiliated by a child.

Young Turks: Obama is first ‘Jew-Hating’ President claims FAUX News nutjob “hate expert”.

Pap with Digby: Corporate media enables Teabagger oddballs.

Mark Fiore: Blasy the Drone, To Protect and Swerve.

Jimmy Dori: Luke Russert’s stupid tweet.

Sarah Palin’s Comedy Corner:

• Rubin Report: Sarah Palin Wants to Impeach Obama.
• Ann Telnaes: Sarah Palin beats a dead horse.
• Huff Post Live: Awwww….Sarah Palin calls for Obama’s impeachment
• Sharpton: Palin wants Obama impeached.
• Even FAUX News cannot take Palin seriously.
• David Pakman: Sarah Palin wants to impeach Obama for following George W. Bush’s law
• O’Reilly, Goldberg, Boehner think Palin’s plan is crazy.
• Alex Wagner: Sarah “Death Panel” Palin equates ‘Obama impeachment’ to ‘a gunfight’!

Sharpton: Boehner unveils bill to authorize his stunt ‘lawsuit’ against Pres. Obama.

Rubin Report: The reality of who actually earns minimum wage.

Grace Parra’s Pretty Strong Opinions: Batten down the snatches:

WaPo: Things to do in Denver when you are Prez.

What’s the Matter With Kansas?

• Young Turks: Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback fulfills promise to destroy Kansas.
• Chris Hayes: The State of Kansas is poor.

Ed: ‘Obama economic growth’ ruins GOP’s HATE-talking points.

Young Turks: Bob Beckel earns his pay as FAUX News’ clown ‘liberal’ racist.

Pap: The Republican 50 state strategy.

The NSA spying scandal.

Nutburger Immigration Conspiracy Theories:

• Michael Brooks: Rick Perry pushes border conspiracies.
• Young Turks: Rick Perry chewed alive by his own words.
• Chris Hayes: Texas Gov. Rick Perry accuses Obama of co-ordinating mass migration of kids into the U.S.
• David Pakman: Louie Gohmert has a bizarre theory of immigrants.
• Sharpton: Cheap shot Rick Perry’s Texas sized hypocrisy & lies on immigration
• Alex Wagner: Republicans accuse Obama of ‘importing’ immigrant children in thousands

White House: West Wing Week.

Bill Maher: GOP and FAUX News refuse to stop telling stupid zombie lies about Obama.

Pap with Abby Martin: Blackwater’s criminal history.

Young Turks: ‘Legitimate Rape’ idiot takes back his apology and doubles down.

UCB Comedy: Senatorial Candidate for Human-Dog Marriage.

Ann Telnaes: Pandora’s Hobby Lobby box.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening for some political discussion over a drink. Please join us in the back room. There is no agenda, no program…just liberals hanging out and conversing.

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 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. And the Bremerton chapter meets on Thursday.

With 201 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Thom: Citizen Koch.

Ed and Pap: Turd Blossom rewrites history to smear Obama.

Sam Seder: The silliest GOP ad ever?

Michael Brooks: Chris Christie, the bullshit artist.

Pap: Kochs buying what’s left of our Democracy.

Corporate Religion and Contraceptive Conscience:

• Mark Fiore: Hobby Lobby corporate commandments.
• Thom: Courts again say corporations are people…women are not.
• PsychoSuperMom: Corporations are people now (But apparently women are not)

• David Pakman: Hobby Lobby decision RESTRICTS religious freedom.
• Chris Hayes: Will there be a Hobby Lobby fallout for the G.O.P.?
• Thom: SCOTUS thinks women are not people.
• Pap and Ed: Hobby Lobby decision is a shot fired in War on Women.
• Young Turks: Corporations are now religious people
• David Pakman: What if Hobby Lobby was a Muslim company?
• Pap and Ed: Atrocious SCOTUS deals is a blow to labor unions.
• Maddow: Hobby Lobby ruling to be used by the GOP to discriminate:

• Matt Binder with Katie Klabusich: SCOTUS’s Stunning Hatred of Women
• Ana Kasparian: Religion wins over birth control.

Alex Wagner: Obama Throws Punches at GOP NUT-Bags.

Maddow: Boehner fakes a lawsuit against Obama.

David Pakman: Congress embarrassingly unproductive.

Sam Seder: Shocking news for Libertarians (and Wingnut concern trolls)…Minimum wage increase does not lead to job loss.

ONN: Meat prices skyrocket after cow smashing machine gets all beefed up.

Liberal Viewer: 9-0 decision on cell phone case.

Sharpton: Obama will use executive action to push ahead on immigration.

Sam Seder: Nutjobber right wing blogger interrupts Cochran campaign conference call.

Independence Day!

• Fireworks on the National Mall from the White House
• Happy Birthday America.
• 4th of July weekend: PSA
• Obama delivers Independence day comments
• Another July 4th birthday.
• Obama’s weekly address: Celebration Independence Day.
• Mental Floss: 46 facts about the first ladies.
• Sharpton: Grill your conservative friends for the 4th

Maddow: Tea-party loser Chris McDaniel claims Cochran paid Blacks $15 a piece for votes.

Sharpton: Nutbag Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is STILL trying to find an IRS scandal.

David Pakman: A creepy Republican’s “cranking” fetish.

Chris Hayes: Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage meets with extremists repeatedly, talks about ‘hanging’ Democrats! (with bonus Gov. Gregoire cameo).

White House: West Wing Week.

Jimmy Dore: 935 Lies.

Pap: Scott Walker in the criminal hot seat.

Bad Jobs News for Conservatives:

• David Pakman: FAUX News panic over good jobs report.
• Young Turks: Burying good job numbers isn’t enough for FAUX News.
• David Pakman: Conservatives flip out as new jobs exceed expectation, unemployment drops to 6.1%.

Chris Christie: Who Knows?

Thom: Big Oil is a family affair.

Richard Fowler: Boy Scouts lead thousands in NYC Gay Pride Parade.

Maddow: Pres. Obama explains why he will reform immigration by executive action.

David Pakman: Twice+ divorced FL Attorney General says gay marriage would destabilize marriage.

Michael Brooks: Insane ME Gov. hangs with violent sovereign rights group .

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

Please join us tonight for an Independence Day week 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. 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. 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 next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 201 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

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

Stephen gets batshit serious about migrant kids.

Sam Seder: Rick Perry visions of being Jewish.

Ed: Gov. Bobby Jindal calls for a rebellion with a hostile takeover of Washington.

Young Turks: Here’s the Republican scandal machine in 10 easy steps.

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News, “Girls more likely to have hateful little minds” ???

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

The Return of the Neocon and Wingnut War Criminals:

• Mark Fiore: The Neocon reunion tour!.
• #Dicklovers speak out:

• Pap and Cliff Schecter: War chickenhawks coming home to roost
• Maddow: John McCain, ‘Blah blah blah arm the rebels’.
• Jon: Republican warfare queens
• Thom: The return of the neocons.
• Jimmy Dore: Digging a deeper hole.
• Pap and Sam Seder: The King of Iraqi blood and oil, Part I.
• Pap and Sam Seder: The King of Iraqi blood and oil, Part II.

Dark Snow 2014: Why we are here.

Young Turks: FAUX News’s Soccerghazi!!!!!!11!1!!

David Pakman: Looney Toon Rick Santorum says Christians should fight war against gay marriage.

Thom: GOP is the pro-death party.

Daily Show: College sexual assault.

Some historical iced tea for the 4th.

Young Turks: Michele Bachmann’s latest insanity turns Neil Cavuto reasonable?!?

Sam Seder: Election fraud is real, and rich white Republicans are doing it.

Thom and Pap: Gov. Walker’s (R-WI) “Criminal Scheme”.

Sam Seder: Christie builds another bridge to jail.

White House: West Wing Week.

Young Turks: California’s historic vote to get money out of politics.

WaPo: 44 years of Charles Rangel, in one minute.

David Pakman: Benghazi has become an epic Republican embarrassment.

Boehner’s Silly Lawsuit:

• Obama: Boehner wants to sue me for doing my job
• Sharpton: The GOP’s absurd lawsuit
• Pap and Sam Seder: Boehner’s asinine lawsuit stunt.
• David Pakman: Republicons sue Obama over fewer executive orders than Shrub.
• Alex Wagner: Obama disses Republicans.

Liberal Viewer: Is ISIS the #1 threat to the U.S.?

Factivists: The GOP’s Immigration Inaction.

Ed: Herman Cain thinks Obama voters are “stupid”.

Bill Mahar’s guest draws comparison between Teabaggers and Nazis.

Supremes Greenlight Harassment at Abortion Clinics:

• Sam Seder: Supreme court greenlights harassing women at abortion clinics.
• Maddow: Hypocritical SCOTUS has buffer zone, but doesn’t think abortion clinics need buffer zone.

Young Turks: Syria hands over their chemical weapons…THANKS OBAMA!

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

It’s an election Tuesday! No…not in Washington or Seattle, but there are primaries in Colorado (where we might witness the return of former presidential and gubernatorial fringe candidate Tom Tancredo), Maryland, New York (federal offices only), Oklahoma, and Utah. And there are runoff races in Mississippi and South Carolina. It could be entertaining…one never knows when the next “Cantor” will happen. Please join us Tuesday night for an evening of electoral politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet this 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 east coast returns.

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 on Thursday, the Woodinville chapter meets.

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

Rick Perry sets the record straight on homosexuality.

Matt Binder: The Conservative strategy to lower school gun violence…don’t count ’em.

Seattle comic Derek Sheen does San Francisco.

Gov. Walker’s Investigated for Crimes:

• Ed: Walker’s troubles.
• Chris Hayes: Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) accused of ‘criminal fundraising scheme’
• Ed and Pap: Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) won’t do well in the Pokey.

Jimmy Dore on George Will’s idiotic comments.

Mental Floss: 29 weird museums.

Maddow: Why the GOP sucks.

Chris Hayes: ObamaCare is winning.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: What does Cantor’s loss mean for Mitch McConnell?

Quagmire Accomplished:

• Ann Telnaes: Dick Cheney forgets his own failed foreign policies.
• Thom and Howard Dean on those who got Iraq wrong.
• Young Turks: You will not BELIEVE what Glenn Beck says.
• Sam Seder: Glenn Beck says that, ‘Liberals were right on Iraq.
• Pap and RFK Jr.: How idiotic warhawks destroyed Iraq.
• Stephen welcomes back The Iraq Pack
• Sam Seder: Megyn Kelly calls out Darth Cheney
• Ann Telnaes: Bush’s squawking chickenhawks:

• Michael Brooks: Here comes the Clown Car
• Mark Fiore: Create your own Caliphate!
• WaPo: The Sunni-Shiite divide explained.
• Thom and Pap: If it’s Sunday, meet the Chickenhawk Republicans…
• WaPo: The politics of Iraq
• Joy Reid: The Bushie murderers are slithering out of their snake holes
• David Pakman: Even Pat Robertson says the Bush Administration sold us a bill of goods on Iraq.
• Ari: What should the U.S. do about Bush’s mess?
• Young Turks: Finally a reporter challenges Darth Cheney…Megyn?!?
• Sam Seder: What’s really behind the success of ISIS in Iraq?
• Michael Brooks: Reporter who lied about WMD now calls for media accountability on Iraq
• Ann Telnaes: Tony Blair is barking up the wrong tree.
• Sam Seder: Poor warhawks…U.S. and Iran share common interests in Iraq.

John Oliver chats with Stephen Hawking.

Some things Obama wants to protect.

Alex Wagner: Texas Gov. Rick Perry is intellectually unqualified to be President!

Jon can’t believe that Republicans are willfully blind on climate change.

Full Interview with Bill Gates on the Common Core (27:53).

Jimmy Dori interviews Bill O’Reilly.

Benghazi Derangement Syndrome:

• David Pakman: Benghazi suspect says anti-Muslim video WAS a factor
• Young Turks: Benghazi suspect caught…FAUX sees conspiracy
• Sam Seder: FAUX suggests that Obama captured Benghazi attack ringleader to promote Hillary Clinton’s book.
• David Pakman: Right Wing conspiracy theories about Benghazi capture EXPLODE
• Sharpton: Heritage Foundation’s Benghazi conspiracy theory panel’s Islamophobic delusions
• Conan: FAUX News interviews Hillary on her book Benghazi.
• Young Turks: The guy who did Benghazi was freed by BUSH…silence from the Wingnuts
• Benghazi conspiracy panel attacks Muslim student

Young Turks: Washington R******s looses their trademark protection.

PsychoSuperMom: How far to the right is right enough?:

Eric Cantor sets off Brian Schweitzer’s gaydar.

Richard Fowler: Another nail in the coffin for Texas women’s rights.

WaPo: Who is Josh Earnest?

White House: West Wing Week.

Stephen does Jay Carney.

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

Please join us tonight 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 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 and Shelton chapters also meet this Tuesday. The Lakewood and South Seattle chapters meet this Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Spokane and Spokane chapters meet.

With 206 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

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.