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.

Liberal Viewer: Amend the second amendment?

John Oliver stops by to visit Jon.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Sam Seder: Charter Schools are NOT performing better than traditional public schools in Chicago.

Thom: The Red State Medicade doughnut hole is KILLING people.

Stephen with Jon on leaving the Colbert Report.

David Pakman: Issa’s conspiracy theory debunked…IRS targeted progressive groups more than Tea Baggers.

Mental Floss: 18 famous people missing body parts.

Sharpton: 49 Million Americans lack access to healthy food & GOP wants to make it worse!.

All Bundy:

• Sam Seder: Cliven Bundy is a liar
• Chris Hayes: Whoa Bundy!
• David Pakman: Absurd double standard on Bundy cattle ranch
• Jon rips Hannity a new asshole over the welfare rancher.
• Mark Fiore: Cliven Bundy’s Home on the Range.
• Young Turks: Bundy’s lunatic racist rant
• Stephen Sings The Ballad Of Cliven Bundy:
• Ed and friends: Sean Hannity is desperate and delusional
• Sam Seder: Were Negros better off as slaves?” ponders Republican hero Cliven Bundy
• Young Turks with the “Which Bundy Said That?” game
• Ed: Sean Hannity + Cliven Bundy + FAUX News = KU + KLUX + KLAN, Part I
• Ed: Sean Hannity + Cliven Bundy + FAUX News = KU + KLUX + KLAN, Part II
• Maddow: Exploring the racist context of the Cliven Bundy / FAUX News Tag Team, Part I
• Maddow: Exploring the racist context of the Cliven Bundy / FAUX News Tag Team, Part II
• Jon rips Professor of Negro studies, Mr. Bundy.
• Sam Seder: Cliven Bundy gives us an amazing look into the Right Wing “mind”.
• Fanboy Hannity is POed: Bundy is now embarrassing conservatives.
• Bundy tries splainin’…blames MLK.
• Sharpton: Bundy compares himself to MLK
• Jon: The shit gets weird with Hannity
• Ed and Pap: Ranchers, racists, and Hannity
• Sam Seder: Why the right wing needs Mr. Bundy.
• Young Turks: Cliven Bundy blames his racism on MLK

White House: West Wing Week.

Ari Melber: Bob Dole, NUT-case Ted Cruz not ready to be President.

Paul and Paul.

Ann Telnaes: Georgia—the Nut state.

Ed: The GOP’s love affair with ‘voter-intimidation’ and fake voter-fraud.

Dr Phil does some therapy with Barack and Vlad.

Thom: The flat earth society has risen again.

David Pakman: Seattle Boy Scout troop gets cut off…

Late-night laughs: 2016 contenders edition.

The Cowboy and Indian Alliance:

• Reject and Protect: Opening ceremony.
• Thom: Cowboys and Indians ride into D.C.

Pap: SCOTUS is rotten at the top.

Sam Seder: America forgets Herman Cain.

David Pakman: GA passes “guns everywhere” bill.

Young Turks: Is running against Obamacare a bad idea?

Stephen with another episode of Better Know a District.

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

Tonight is election night. So get your ballot turned in and then please join us for an evening of politics 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 earlier 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 and Spokane 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.

Ann Telnaes: Money corrupts the democratic process.

Maddow: Right Wing Extremists Have Terrorized America More Than Jihadists Since Sept. 11th:

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III

David Pakman: Gov. Rick Perry now the focus of a criminal investigation.

GOP Law and Disorder:

Sharpton: Scott Brown kicks off his NH Senate run…with deception.

Chris Hayes: GOP whackos assemble in NH for “Freedom Summit”.

Deadbeat Rancher Induces Orgasms Among The Right Wing Fringe:

• Ed and Pap: The latest Tea Party flake.
• Steve Kornacki: GOP “schizophrenia” on full display in Nevada
• Young Turks: FAUX News’ Hannity provokes violence.
• Thom and Pap: Is Sean Hannity going to get somebody killed?
• David Pakman: Bundy Ranch a huge embarrassment for the right wing.
• Matt Binder: Cowardly right wing militia will use women and children for human shields
• Young Turks: Shoot women and children first.
• Joy-Ann Reid: FAUX’s & right wing’s Bundy-Ranch hypocrisy
• Chris Hayes: GOP has elevated Nevada ‘welfare’ rancher Cliven Bundy to hero status
• Thom: Perfect storm for the right wing fringe
• Young Turks: Bundy Ranchers angry at Glenn Beck
• Matt Binder: Would Bundy ranch supporters defend Native Americans’ claim to the land?
• Ed and Pap: Cowboy Bundy…the new face of the Republican Party.

Richard Fowler: Rep Blackburn claims GOP “Led Fight For Women’s Equality”.

Mental Floss: 28 birthday traditions from around the world.

Sam Seder: Louie Gohmert vs. Eric Holder.

Alex Wagner: New Republican female initiative–Marry rich men.

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

Painting Away the Guilt:

• Mark Fiore: George W Bush’s Art of Legacy.
• ONN: Bush debuts new paintings.
• Conan shows that Shrub isn’t the only ex-prez painting

Ann Telnaes: Congress is out on recess again.

Richard Fowler: Republicans having difficulty with the reality that ObamaCare works.

Aasif Mandvi talks about that one time when a republican said the N-word on TV.

Liberal Viewer: Only rich think the IRS is the most intrusive, punitive part of the government?.

Ann Telnaes: The conservative approach to bridging the pay gap.

A Conspiracy With Some Sole:

• Matt Binder: Rush Limbaugh is Papa Shoether.
• Maddow: Clinton and the shoe
• Young Turks: “Shoe Truthers” say Hillary faked it.
• Sharpton: A new good old fashioned right wing conspiracy theory
• And here go the nutburgers with Chelsea pregnancy (via Crooks and Liars).

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: Glenn Beck says his theories are coming true…won’t say which ones.

Pap: GOP suffers from Bush amnesia.

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

Want to talk about a $15/hour minimum wage? Want to toast Sen. Rodney Tom’s (R-D-R??-WA-48) decision to retire from the Senate? Want to talk about King County Proposition 1 and mass transit? Then please join us tonight for an evening of politics 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 earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL 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 Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima and Olympia chapters meet.

With 213 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.

The Point: Is the US ready for yet another Bush?

Equal Pay for Equal Work:

• White House: When women succeed, America succeeds:
• WaPo: Democrats highlight equal pay push.
• Ann Telnaes: The GOP offers kisses to women.
• Sam Seder: How Obama is helping close the pay gap.
• Mitch McConnell’s equal pay solution.
• Michael Brooks: Women’s rights are so distracting says Mitch McConnell.

Ann Telnaes: Childless couples need not apply in Utah.

Jon on Sean Hannity’s Spring Break alarmism.

The Week in Scott Brown:

• WaPo: What New Hampshire voters think of Scott Brown.
• Maddow: Clueless Scott Brown, Part I
• Maddow: Clueless Scott Brown, Part II

Mark Fiore: The United States of John Roberts.

Obama: Civil Rights.

This Week in Torture:

• Jon: Dick Cheney and Back to the Torture.
• Matt Binder: “Tough guy” Sean Hannity still won’t undergo waterboarding himself.

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

Sharpton: Eric Holder calls out Republican racism

Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) get Famous:

• Young Turks: Kissing Congressman caught on tape.
• Young Turks: Are self-righteous religious politicians full of shit?

White House: West Wing Week.

Richard Fowler: Paul Ryan’s new pathway to prosperity.

Bill Maher: The G.O.P. has become talk radio (via Crooks and Liars).

Stephen Colbert News:

• WaPo: The real Stephen Colbert.
• Colbert on interviewing in character
• Bill-O-the-Clown: Stephen Colbert is destroying America.
• Ed: Limbaugh scared shitless about Colbert.
• Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman.
• Jimmy Fallon on Stephen Colbert’s new gig
• Sharpton: Right Wingers freak-out over Colbert announcement.
• A little theater with Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell
• Limbaugh sees WAR in Colbert pick.
• Seven delightful instances of Stephen Colbert out of character.
• Stephen with advice for the New York Times
• Did Letterman lie about his replacement?
• Stephen Colbert reacts to David Letterman’s retirement

Young Turks: Hillary joins Shrub in the thrown shoe club.

Thom: Climate deniers use same tactics as tobacco companies.

Ari Melber: No escape for Christie as noose tightens.

The Travesty of Affordable Health Care:

• Ed and Pap: The Koch brother’s ObamaCare windfall
• Matt Binder: Koch brothers are profiting from Obamacare
• Jon: The ObamaCare non-Hard sell.
• David Pakman: Glenn Beck melts down over ObamaCare numbers.
• John Fugelsang (with Ed): Epic ObamaCare rant:
• Matt Binder: Republicans who attack Obamacare also…fight for it?
• Maddow: How Republicans put too-many-eggs in the ObamaCare basket
• Ed: WingNutjobbers in denial over enrollment numbers.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: GOP swallows 7.1 million bitter pills.

John Boehner’s bullshit excuse for failure to extend unemployment benefits.

LBJ adviser on how Obama should handle Boehner.

This Week in Republican Voter Suppression:

• Ed: Republicans making the American voting process “3rd World-like’
• Chris Hayes and Rev. Sharpton: Obama’s frontal assault on GOP’s bogus, racist voter suppression efforts.
• Farron Cousins with Howard Nations: What motivates Republican racism?

Alex Wagner: Jim DeMint claims, “Big Government didn’t free the slaves”.

Young Turks: Republicans finally surrender on Benghazi.

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

Please join us tonight for an evening of politics under the influence at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

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

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state 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 and Spokane chapters meet. The Centralia chapter meets on Friday.

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.

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.