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.

Sacred Catch: Preview of a series coming to KUOW.

Daily Show on on FAUX’s ‘The Five’.

Dennis Trainor, Jr.: Four reasons George W. Bush should be held accountable for war crimes.

Mental Floss: 33 fascinating songwriter stories.

Barbara Bush on Jeb Bush running and political dynasties

Ana Kasparian and friends: FAUX commentator calls for execution of religious minority.

Young Turks: Bizarre political ad.

WaPo: How the NSA can track Americans.

Ann Telnaes: Boehner thinks there are enough regulations.

ONN: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth clear Kerry after nine year investigation:

Jon on Iran sanctions.

Young Turks: Best and worst response to the chemical leak.

Thom: Seattle swears in a Socialist.

Roy Zimmerman: Norwedish Hate Anthem.

Stephen: Invade everything.

American Minute: 800,000 users per day.

Alex Wagner and Ezra Klein: What do new ACA numbers mean for the law?

BullyGate:

• Maddow: “Mafia like” corruption in Gov. Christie’s regime.
• Liberal Viewer: Is Gov. Christie like a mob boss?
• Sharpton: Examples of Christie being a bully
• Fallon and Springsteen: Ode to Gov. Christie (R-NJ)
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Poor Chris Christie—The Boss doesn’t like him.
• As long as you do what he says.
• Ann TelnaesChristie swimming the the fishes
• Christie miscellania
• O’Donnell: How the GOP will kneecap Christie in 2016
• Jay Rockefeller finds “Zero evidence” Christie’s bridge closings were part of a traffic study
• Alex Wagner: Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ), this is your life.
• Tweety and Bill Maher: bully
• Sharpton: How Gov. Christie lied about the GWB sabotage
• The Very Last Word: Chris Hayes: Gov. investigated.
• Matt Binder: Did Christie misuse Sandy relief?

Thoughts, rants and cold coffee.

Young Turks: What was really in the Benghazi report.

Stephen: Ridiculous French sex scandal.

Thom: America’s real welfare queens.

Red State Update: Joe Biden Day.

Obama’s NSA Reforms:

• Obama’s NSA speech.
• Young Turks: Obama’s NSA speech.
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Obama’s NSA reforms are light on reforms.

White House: West Wing Week.

Dennis Trainor, Jr.: We need a democracy to fix this shit.

Dave Pakman: Just 0.01% of climate scientists reject climate change.

Jon gets sexually harassed.

This Week in the Republican War on Women™:

• Sam Seder: Is this Republican the next Todd Akin?
• Thom with Lizz Winstead: “I have a politician in my pussy”.
• Sam Seder: GOP candidate is big on spousal rape
• Sam Seder: Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R) wants to force births to “create jobs”

Ed: Obama’s marriage is on El Rushbo’s scandal wish list.

Mark Fiore: The Climateers.

Young Turks: The IRS “scandal” is “officially” over.

Lee Camp: Moment of clarity.

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

Last week we had a DL surprise. We showed up at the Montlake Ale House only to find that the pub was closed! The business had been sold and a new restaurant is planned to open in its place.

For us, this marks the end of a nine year run at the Montlake Ale House. But this is an opportunity to try someplace new. Therefore, we will have a “traveling DL” for a month or two, trying a different location each week until we find someplace new (or, perhaps, even return to whatever the Ale House becomes).

This Tuesday we will meet to discuss new places to try. So, please join us for some pub punditry over a pint at the the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Starting time is 8:00pm.

This week only, DL will be held at the College Inn Pub at 4006 University Way NE, Seattle, in the heart of the University District.

Can’t make it tonight? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. The Tri-Cities and Vancouver, WA chapters also meet this Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. For Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma chapters meet. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima and Olympia chapters meet.

With 214 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.

Mark Fiore: One minute Middle East update.

Polar Vortex Politics:

• Alyona: Limbaugh’s conspiracy theory.
• White House Science adviser explains the polar vortex.
• Polar vortices and global warming
• Young Turks: Did the Liberal media create the Polar Vortex?
• We the Geeks: Extreme weather events.

Whose side are they on?

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

David Pakman: Pat Robertson’s 2014 predictions.

Zina Saunders: Paul Ryan Koch toy:

Ed: Rep. Gov. Scott Walker thinks only kids are affected by minimum wage!

ANOTHER 60 Minutes Failure:

• Thom: 60 Minutes, are you watching news or infomercials?
• Ana Kasparian: Why Does 60 Minutes Keep Screwing Up?

Young Turks: Dumbest talking point ever.

Thom chats with Kshama Sawant.

Maddow: Lt. Governor problems.

White House: West Wing Week.

Pap: GOP sociopaths learn empathy.

The Pot-Texting-Industrial Complex:

• Jon mocks Bill-O the Clown over Chinese texting and pot smoking
• Young Turks: Bill-O is embarrassed by Jon.

David Pakman: Mitt criticizes Obama for doing exactly what he did.

Thom: Who are the real ObamaCare hypocrites?

Chris Hayes: Extreme cruelty is the Republican “war on poverty.” Part I.
Chris Hayes: Extreme cruelty is the Republican “war on poverty.” Part II.

Young Turks: Republican pollster Frank Luntz gets depressed and hides in his mansion:

Chris Christie’s Own Bridgegate to Nowhere:

• Sam Seder: Christie aid is BUSTED.
• Absurdity Today: Chris Christie’s Top 5 Alibis
• Scandal grade: incomplete.
• Pap and Thom: Christie’s Nixon moment.
• Young Turks: Chris Christie bully mash-up.
• Lawrence O’Donnell and David Corn: How the bridge scandal will affect Christie’s presidential prospects
• Christie on the bridge closures
• David Pakman: Chris Christie bridge scandal leads to woman’s death.
• The Guardian: Gov. Christie’s apology in 2:40
• Young Turks: Bridgegate Lawsuit.
• About “Callous”
• Chris Hayes: Christie’s political future?
• Ed: Christie says he is not a bully!
• Sharpton: Did Christie lie?
• Five clips of Gov. Christie being a bully
• O’Donnell: The Christie gang takes the fifth.
• Ann Telnaes: Gov. Christie Insists he is not a bully .
• Christie politics: See how it’s done
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter Nevermind Prez in 2016, will he still be gov in 2015?
• Maddow: An alternative theory of the Christie scandal.
• Maddow chats with Mayor Mark Sokolich, Part I
• Maddow chats with Mayor Mark Sokolich, Part II
• Lawrence O’Donnell: “I am no bully”
• Ed, Pap, and Fugelsang: Christie better lawyer up!
• Christie croney repeatedly pleads the fifth
• Thom: Chris Christie is a bully
• Chris Hayes: Jersey city Mayor calls out “petty Christie-Crats”

Can your booze predict your politics?

Richard Fowler: Paul Ryan lectures the Pope on Capitalism.

Thom: Boeing goes to pieces…screws the U.S..

Mental Floss: 30 (more) life hacks debunked.

We Aren’t Going To Have Liz to Kick Around Anymore:

• Liz Cheney quitting means nothing to the Republicans
• Sam Seder: Liz Cheney has no heart for a crushing defeat.

Young Turks: Someone who really shouldn’t criticize free lunches, does.

Sam Seder: FAUX News chief is a slimy asshole.

Thom: The Republican sabotage of America.

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

“I did not have selective lane closures with that Bridge…Mr. Washington.”

Oh, the humanity!

**Update: I just got a call from a DL regular. Apparently the Montlake Ale House is closed this evening. Good thing I posted the announcement really late tonight!

Update II: Goldy, N in Seattle and I are heading for The College Inn, 4000 University Way NE
Seattle, WA. Please join us!

Start out the new year right by joining us tonight for an evening of post-holiday politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Our normal starting time is 8:00pm.

Can’t make it tonight? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. On Thursday the Bremerton chapter meets. And on Friday, the Centralia chapter meets.

With 212 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.

Young Turks: Recreational pot causes long lines in CO .

The Horrors of Affordable Health Care for All:

• Ann Telnaes: Healthcare and freedom from religion.
• Kliff Notes: Obamacare dates to watch in 2014
• Chris Hayes: 9 Million Plus Served!
• Ed: ObamaCare marks a new era of security for Americans:
• Sam Seder: Debunking the right wing’s ObamaCare claims.
• Liberal Viewer: Really? Lie of the Year?
• Thom: Time to close the Red State doughnut hole:

Sam Seder: Did Chris Christie create massive traffic jams because of political feud?

Young Turks: Belief in evolution—Republicans versus Democrats.

Benghaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!1!!11!

• David Pakman: Investigation finds no al Qaeda link in Benghazi.
• Chris Hayes: The New York Times Exposes GOP Benghazi lies.
• Joy Reid: New York Times punches holes in GOP’s Benghazi lies.

Pap and Thom: Oil industry wants to privatize profits, socialize risks.

Zina Saunders: The animated life and times of Ronald Reagan.

Young Turks: Billionaire warns the Pope.

Invasion of Privacy, Florida Style:

• Young Turks: Drug testing for welfare recipients is ruled unconstitutional.
• Sharpton: Judge strikes down Florida Gov. Rick Scotts’s racist drug testing plan.

David Pakman: Scott Walker makes WI #1…in jobless claims.

WaPo: How unemployment benefits could make a comeback.

Sam Seder: Is David Brooks high?!?

Young Turks: Charlie Christ “evolves” on gay marriage.

New Year:

• Mark Fiore: Little Suzie Newsykins remembers to forget for the new year.
• Lee Camp: The Most Jaw-Dropping Underreported Stories Of 2013
• Alex Wagner: America’s most colorful political characters in 2013:
• Young Turks: Was 2013 a good year?
• Joy Reid: Will 2014 be the year for liberals?
• David Pakman: 5 worst FAUX News moments of 2013
• Sen. Sherrod Brown’s New Year Resolution.
• Sen. Joe Manchin’s New Year’s Resolution.
• Sen. Tim Kaine’s New Year’s Resolution.
• Sen. Tom Harkin’s New Year’s Resolution.
• One minute news: Fun new laws for 2014.
• Mental Floss: 38 Bizarre items dropped on New Years.
• Ed: Ted Cruz is the 2013 “Pretender of The Year”
• White House: West Wing Week year in review.
• Young Turks: Best stories of 2013.

Maddow: Epic Koch brothers smackdown (via Crooks and Liars).

Sam Seder: Democrats will win with minimum wage in 2014.

David Pakman: Same-sex couples breaking records in Utah.

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

At 9:30 today, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray will hold a live web cast to “discuss next steps to raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour for all Seattle City employees”.

Watch it here: