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.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally continues its city-wide Drinking Liberally tour, in search of a new home.

This evening we will converge upon the South Lake Union neighborhood for an evening of politics under the influence with an Irish theme at Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub (at South Lake Union), 1190 Thomas St. Seattle. We meet at 8:00 pm, but some folks show up even earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it tonight? Check out another Washington state meeting of DL over the next week.

The Tri-Cities and Vancouver, WA chapters, and Washington’s newest DL, the Redmond chapter, also meets 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.

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

Science v. Creationism:

• Ana Kasparian: Bill Nye, Ken Ham and debating the phony “science” of creationism.
• Young Turks: Creationist signs at the Nye–Ham debate.
• Sam Seder: Guess what side Pat Robertson takes.
• Young Turks: The Bill Nye—Ken Ham debate in a nutshell.

Mental Floss: 29 misconceptions about alcohol.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

White House: West Wing Week.

Political Olympics:

• Obama: Message for the athletes.
• Ann Telnaes: Putin’s grip on free speech.
• Alex Wagner: Sochi, snow leopards and Vladimir Putin’s Russia
• ONN: Russia applauds America’s efforts to exclude gay athletes from professional sports
• Sochi welcomes Homosexuals to the Olympics
• Five Olympians turned politician
• Stephen: Sochi Reporters need to buck up
• David Pakman: Violent LGBT attacks in Russia
• Young Turks: Russia arrests gay rights activists on DAY 1.

WaPo: When politicians lash out at reporters.

Young Turks: Republican birth control jokes probably won’t help them with the female vote.

The federal government legalizes hemp!

ObamaCare means Freedom:

• Sam Seder: ObamaCare equals FREEDOM.
• Chris Hayes: The latest FAUX News lie about ObamaCare debunked.
• Young Turks: Do Republicans secretly love ObamaCare?
• Sam Seder: CBO report bad news for ObamaCare dead-enders.
• Young Turks: Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ little white lie.:
• Colbert and Krugman on the CBO report (via Crooks and Liars).
• Chris Hayes: The new GOP lie is that ObamaCare kills jobs.
• Ed: Republicans twist CBO numbers for dishonest talking point.

Maddow debunks government weather manipulation conspiracy theory.

Mark Fiore: Wheels on the tech bus.

Stephen: America’s wealthy under siege.

Political Football:

• Best of political Superbowl ads
• Ana Kasparian: Why doesn’t the NFL pay taxes?
• Thom: How the NFL is ripping us off.
• Young Turks: Turns out THIS is the Superbowl ad that made Wingers flip their lid.
• Jon can’t deal with idiots mad about Coke’s ‘America The Beautiful’ Ad
• Sam Seder: Rightwingers go BONKERS over Superbowl ad.
• David Pakman: Conservatives are angry at Coca-Cola
• Young Turks: The dumbest reactions to the Superbowl ad.
• Thom: Doesn’t the Coke Superbowl ad bring out the worst on the Right?

Maddow: Tasers, and Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger announce they will no longer sell new semi-auto handguns in California”.

Rocky Anderson: The US’s imperialist history of undermining democracy.

Sharpton: Now Republicans want to execute a “lawless” Obama?!?

Laura Ingraham is a Bigger Idiot than Anyone Realized!!!

• David Pakman: Laura Ingraham question’s Sotomayor ‘allegiance’ to US because her parents are Puerto Rican
• Sam Seder: Laura Ingraham’s shockingly ignorant anti-immigration attack.

Sharpton: Why do Republicans freak out over contraception?:

The Bromance: Scott Walker on Paul Ryan.

Daily Show: Selling Koch to small towns.

The Christie Minstrel Show:

• Sam Seder: When will Chris Christie resign.
• Bridge-gate: How’d we get here?
• David Pakman: He lied? Chris Christie allegedly knew about bridge closure
• Sam Seder: More shoe drops on Chris Christie.
• Ed and Pap: Christie’s inner circle turn on one another
• Bridgegate: Could Christie be impeached?
• The Big Game
• Alex Wagner: The Chris Christie saga evolves into ‘high-school’ insults
• Sam Seder: Christie is a child….
• Ed: Subpoena’s flying in N.J.

Farron Cousins with Nancy Cohen: Republican War on Women™ still a losing strategy.

Young Turks: This is why people love Elizabeth Warren.

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

The Republican War on the Needy™:

• Sam Seder: The sociopaths in Congress slash food stamps.
• John Green: Should we raise the minimum wage?
• Sam Seder: Debunking the anti-minimum wage myths.
• Sharpton: Republicans block unemployment bill…again.
• Pap and Seder: Farm bill takes food from the needy
• Farron Cousins: The party of the 1%.
• Sam Seder: Republicans kill unemployment insurance (AGAIN!).
• Sharpton: Wingnut Republican says it is “immoral” extending unemployment?!?

Young Turks: What do the Republicans really think of Cathy McMorris Rodgers?

Chris Hayes: How the Koch brothers are trying to buy the Senate.

Fallon: Reads awful advice and channels Rob Ford on his last night of Late Night.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally had a standing-room-only turn-out for the State of the Union (Bar) event last week. This week we continue our traveling Drinking Liberally tour, in search of a new home.

So please join Tuesday evening at the Wedgwood Ale House and Grill, 8515 35th Ave NE, Seattle for an evening of political pontification over a pint. We meet at 8:00 pm, but show up earlier for peaceful dinner if you wish.

Can’t make it tonight? 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 213 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.

Jon: Georgia’s Ice age zombie apocalypse.

Bill Maher’s remarkable new congressional campaign.

State of the Union:

• Thom’s State of the Union
• Young Turks: The two dumbest reactions to the SOTU.
• SOTU remix
• David Pakman: Glenn Beck, “Obama has declared that he is America’s 1st dictator.”
• Young Turks: Takedown of the Teabagger response to the SOTU
• Jon: SOTU and Jewish mothers.
• Thom: Bold progressives speak out.
• David Pakman: The SOTU.
• Young Turks: Rep. McMorris-Rodgers response summarized in a minute.
• Chris Hayes: A Handy Guide To Republican 2014 ‘SOTU Insults’, Part I
• Sam Seder and Ryan Grim: The why of the State of the Union
• Young Turks: Obama sets bear trap…Republicans walk right in.
• David Pakman: Republicans furious over Obama using executive orders that they force him to use.

Maddow: Minimum wage, Part I.

Maddow: Minimum wage, Part II.

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News says God’s hand caught skydiver.

Roy Zimmerman: This Machine:

Galaxy full of planets…luckily we’re on the one God cares about.

Mark Fiore: Goodbye net neutrality, hello guilded age internet.

Porky Politics and the Christie Crisis:

• Sam Seder: How long until Chris Christie goes to jail?
• Tweety: New report shows Chris Christie’s bullying
• Sharpton: Inside Gov. Chris Christie’s inner circle
• Ed: The fall of the ‘Mighty-mafioso’ Chris Christie of New Jersey
• Sam Seder: Scandals grow as Sandy relief distribution scrutinized
• Sharpton: Rudy bails on Christie
• Maddow: How bizarre is N.J. politics?:
• Sam Seder: Chris Christie’s brother rakes in cash following Port Authority deal.
• Chris Hayes: How Gov. Christie mis-used hurricane Sandy billions, Part I
• Chris Hayes: How Gov. Christie mis-used hurricane Sandy billions, Part II
• Ari Melber: Gov. Chris Christie’s ‘binders full of corrupt NJ mayors’.
• Sam Seder: Chris Christie knew about lane closures!

Thom: Time for big oil to pay for its pollution.

Sharpton: Rand Paul blows it on women.

Pap: The dumbing down of America for political gain.

David Pakman: Nutcase Rep. Louie Gohmert’s (R-TX) brilliant economic idea…raise taxes on the very poor.

Ann Telnaes: The never ending march.

Lewis Black: Nothing about the Sochi winter Olympics makes sense.

Unhinged Congressman—A Grimm Story:

• TPM uncovers another disturbing video of the Grimm confrontation.
• Young Turks: America’s angriest politician?
• Sam Seder: Thug Congressman threatens to break reporter in half
• Sharpton: Grimm thug.
• Maddow: Another journalist threatened by Grimm?!?
• Nutjob Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY) threatens to throw reporter off balcony…on camera!.
• Chris Hayes: A Handy Guide To Republican 2014 ‘SOTU Insults’, Part II

Mental Floss: 50 more facts about 50 states.

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on: The Anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act:

David Pakman: More creationism in publicly-funded science classrooms.

White House: West Wing Week.

Thom: A declaration of the end of the Reagan era.

Stephen: Medici-NFL.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

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

Assuming I can connect to the internet from the Union Bar, I’ll be liveblogging the SOTU. Please leave your own observations in the comment threads.

5:53: [Darryl] Okay…so I am on the intertubes. The teevee is on here at the Union Bar, and there is a good group of Drinking Liberally folks here, so here we go…just as soon as that turn up the sound.

5:57: [Darryl] Look for Boehner shedding a tear as introduces Mr. President.

6:00: [Darryl] Future first ex-lady arrives!

6:04: [Darryl] The cabinet arrives…no word on where Obama’s many Tsars are.

6:10: [Darryl] The Gavel. Obviously, Obama was frantically rewriting his speech for 10 minutes. A sure sign that his whole administration is in a steep decline….

6:12: [Darryl] Obama has a solid light blue tie on. It must mean something important….

6:14: [Darryl] Obama slips Boehner and Biden envelopes of unmarked bills just before taking the podium….

6:16: [Darryl] Obama front loads the address with all of the anecdotes.

6:18: [Darryl] “…I believe this can be a breakthrough year for America.” Are you with us or against us in this quest?

6:20: [Darryl] Obama says “In a balanced way.” and the cameras cut to Sen. Patty Murray. Nice.

6:21: [Darryl] Obama talks inequality and the income gap, and then promises concrete proposals. Then he threatens Republicans that he will implement these things using executive authority if they don’t help.

6:24: [Carl] All this America is the greatest country on Earth makes me think Obama feels there are better countries on other planets.

6:29: [Darryl] “Congress should undo the damage done last year to basic research.” Yes. Seriously! I’ll never understand why these asshole Republicans want to turn America into a 3rd world-class country in innovation. Oh…wait, I do. They are petty, greedy, selfish, small minded fucks!

6:33: [Darryl] “Climate change is a fact!” Of course…if you don’t believe in science or facts….

6:37: [Carl] Yay unemployment insurance. Now how many people applauding it will vote against it?

6:40: [Carl] Is son of a factory worker a parallel to son of a barkeep? Good job, some of the best speechwriters in the world.

6:43: [Darryl] Obama channels Christine Gregoire on early education.

6:47: [Darryl] “I believe when women succeed, America succeeds!!!” It’s that Democratic War on Women thing again.

6:49: [Darryl] Obama calls out Costco as a company that has learned that paying living wages turns into better business. “Say Yes…give America a raise!”

6:51: [Darryl} Okay…while I was eating my fish & chips, Obama totally schooled Republicans on health care. It was brilliant.

7:12: [Darryl] Until he got into all this foreign policy stuff, I was convinced this was Obama’s best SOTU address so far. It still may be.

7:16: [Darryl] This SOTU isn’t HIPPA compliant (Cori’s story).

7:20: [Darryl] Great closing. Definitely Obama’s best SOTU to date.

7:22: [Darryl] Here is my rebuttal prebuttal: Kathy McMorris Rodgers is a generic wingnut. So there.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally is still “on tour,” searching for a new permanent home. We’ve received a number of excellent suggestions, and will be following them up and voting on new locations to check out in the coming weeks.

This evening is, of course, the Presidential State of the Union Address. And that will be followed by a “response” from the highest ranking Republican woman in the House, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R WA-5).

We’ll watch those while checking out the state of the Union Bar, 5609 Rainier Ave S Seattle. Our normal starting time is 8:00pm, but this week we’ll start at 5:30pm for the 6:00pm start of the SOTU address.

The Union Bar assures us they will have the SOTU on the TV. But I am not sure what the acoustics are like. Bring a radio and ear buds if you must hear every word.

Can’t make it to Seattle to watch the SOTU? The Northwest Progressive Institute will host a SOTU watching party at the Bellevue Regional Library, Room 1, 1111 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue.

Besides the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally, the Tri-Cities chapter meets tonight and every Tuesday night. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 213 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.

David Pakman: WI Republicans propose 7 day work week bill.

N-S-Ay What?

• Mark Fiore: Translating Obama.
• Five movies that predicted U.S. surveillance.
• Sam Seder: Why Obama’s “trust me” isn’t enough
• Liberal Viewer: Justin Bieber beats NSA spying on MSNBC this week.

Stephen discovers a Chinese knockoff.

White House: West Wing Week.

Because Freedom!

• Ann Telnaes: Take your chances WV.
• Roy Zimmerman: “Freedom Industries”:
• Thom: The WV Water poisoning show the trouble with Libertarianism
• Maddow: West Virginia Governor tells residents they have to decide for themselves if water is safe or not

Stephen: Net neutrality.

Thom: Could a Rand Paul candidacy be the best thing ever for liberals?.

Absurdity Today : The end of democracy, justice, AND cat videos.

Fighting World Poverty:

• Bill Gates’ Viral video.
• John Green: Are poor countries doomed.
• Pap: Time for a new war on poverty
• Dennis Trainor, Jr.: Open letter to the 85 richest people on the planet

David Pakman: SF’s $10.74 minimum wage has not hurt the economy.

ONN: Onion Week in Review.

This Week in the Wingnut War on Women™:

• Young Turks: “Birth control is how Dems control horny women” says prominent caveman.
• Sam Seder: FAUX and Fiends—Feminism is a national security threat?!?
• Sarah Silverman is visited by Jesus:
• Young Turks: A “Huck You” to American women.
• WaPo: How one man blew the the McDonnell corruption case wide open.
• Thom: Republicans have a bizarre view of morality.
• Huckabee: The New G.O.P.
• David Pakman: Republican Dick Black, “Raping your wife can’t be a crime”
• Sharpton: When it comes to talking about women, will the GOP ever learn?
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Autopsy update—GOP re-affirms anti-abortion goonery
• Alex Wagner with Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead: Failed Pres. candidate, “Uncle Sugar” Huckabee, wants women to control their libido!
• Ana Kasparian: Is Antonin Scalia ignorant, biased or just plain lying about abortion clinics?
• Sam Seder with Janet Reitman: The stealth war on Abortion
• Dennis Trainor, Jr.: Reproductive rights in a state of emergency

Young Turks: Dinesh D’Louza.

Mental Floss: 33 fun facts about Colleges.

Republican Voter Fraud Fraud:

• Sharpton: Jim Crow vote-rigging and poll taxes—50 years later.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The “Ginsburg” Report: Republicans rebuked for sinster vote-rigging tactics.
• Chris Hayes: Southern white Republicans say that Voting Rights Act is racist.
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: House tries fixing Voting Rights Act.
• Sharpton: It’s time to fix Republican vote-rigging

Maddow: Does fracking cause earth quakes.

Stephen: Mars has doughnuts.

G.O.P. Corrupt Governor’s Club:

• Jon: Why are so many GOP governors under fire right now
• Pap: Chris Christie’s “boardwalk empire” crumbles.
• Christie Creamed: 11 weeks later.
• Thom: The Christie–Koch connection
• Sam Seder: Christie’s Lt. Gov or Hoboken Mayor…Who could possibly be lying?
• Maddow: Gov. Bob ‘Blagojevich’ McDonnell…Will ‘Mr. Ultrasound’ go to jail?
• Young Turks: Was the bribe legal?
• Chris Hayes: Gov. Bob McDonnell & the perils of being powerful, but not rich
• Ed: McDonnell & Christie—A tale of two corrupt GOP Governors
• Truth teller: The time Chris Christie lied to voters.
• David Pakman: Republican party collapses in Virginia.
• Sam Seder: Republican Bob McDonnell is a world class moocher…and felon!

Chris Hayes: ‘President Obama is black’ is the latest FAUX, right-wing racial freakout.

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally is “on tour,” searching for a new meeting location. The folks who showed up last week agreed to a list of places to try for the next month. We’ll visit a new place each week.

This week we meet at the Madrona Eatery and Ale House. Starting time is 8:00pm. I hope you can join us.

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

With 213 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 near you.