Right now Twitter is all atwitter about a typo in a tweet of President Trump’s. I think it’s definitely one I could make, so I have refrained from joining the pile up.
I mean it has only been a few days since the whole Individual-1 thing. So much crime. So, so much.
Trevor chats with his Grandma about apartheid and tours her home.
Stephen remembers George H.W. Bush.
Vox: The problems with rebuilding beaches.
Chris Hayes: Every vote counts.
Trevor with Al Gore: The Climate Reality Project and “24 Hours of Reality”
Late Show: Planet Earth’s climate change episode.
The Dotard Трамп and His band of Co-Collusioners and Embezzlers:
Daily Show: Meet District Attorney Mark Gonzalez, criminal justice reformer.
Adam ruins mattresses.
Stephen: PETA forgot to correct these anti-animal phrases
Full Frontal: GLUE—Gorgeous ladies unionizing everywhere!
Minute Earth: These names can kill animals.
Jimmy Kimmel: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders or Beto O’Rourke for President?
WaPo: What you need to know about the possible government shutdown
Daily Show: Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet
The G.O.P. and Related Election Crime Organizations:
Mental Floss: Everything you need to know about space.
Roll Call: What is a continuing resolution? Decoding this jargon as Congress averts a shutdown.
Trevor hosts the Global Citizen Festival to Honor Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday:
The Atlantic: The last chess shop in New York City.
Stephen with Michelle Obama: It is hard to hate up-close.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I had to be at work early, and I didn’t prepare anything yesterday. Sorry.
It’s cold y’all. I am regretting not wearing a hat this morning. I also am disappointed with the Internet that fedoras have become not just unfashionable, but looked down on. They’re more useful than a cap, but less silly than like a ski hat.
Please join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gathers for an evening of free speech, with no obstruction but plenty of collusion in using the words “resistance” and “impeachment” in prose, song, chants, and slam poetry.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!
I am looking forward to a Seattle hockey team. We will know tomorrow if we get one. I am not excited enough to be a season ticket holder.
The Atlantic: China is surveilling and threatening Uighurs in the U.S..
Ilhan Omar: Diversity in Congress leads to better policy
Wendover: The deadly logistics of climbing Everest.
Stephen looks back at America’s epic fall.
The Dotard Трамп and Other Disarticulating Collusioners:
The Atlantic: The chaos of the universe is contained in a watch.
Veronica Escobar sees unity between left and right.
Jim Jefferies throws a party for fellow soon-to-be U.S. citizens.
Kurzgesagt: End of space—Creating a prison for humanity.
The Atlantic: Your brain perceives reality by hallucinating.
Jon Stewart does Stephen Colbert:
Antonio Delgado is for a public option, renewable energy and restoring people’s faith in democracy.
Nova: Fireproofing our future through better design.
The Atlantic: Sex and the 1960s college girl.
Adam ruins guns:
Vox: FAUX News keeps breaking its own rules.
Real Engineering: Vinyl versus digital.
Trevor: Al Gore weighs in on ManBearPig.
Rashida Tlaib can’t stand bullies and is keenly aware her district is third-poorest in nation
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Darryl already did a Tim Eyman piece. So rather than some informed addition to that, here’s a hastily written limerick:
There once was a fellow, Tim Eyman.
This time can we say, goodbye man?
He’s super corrupt,
Tim went bankrupt.
No money from the “my biggest lie” man.
Over the years, this blog has not been immune to legal controversy. Ignoring the toothless comment thread threats, we occasionally receive take-down demands, cease and desist letters and the like. Indeed, this blog was born out of a lawsuit. It began with Goldy’s Horse’s Ass initiative catalyzing a lawsuit brought against him by Washington’s then state Attorney General, Christine Gregoire. Goldy fought the AG and the AG won:
Siding with the state attorney general, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor ruled yesterday that a proposed statewide initiative declaring Eyman to be a horse’s ass isn’t a proper subject for an initiative. It isn’t legislative in nature, he said, and therefore is “outside the power given to the people.”
An initiative, the judge added, must be “for a purpose other than expressing a sentiment.”
Besides providing the seed for this blog, the only other positive outcome of the whole fiasco was giving the Seattle PI’s Neil Modie the type of multi-layered pun that a lesser journalist would kill for in the headline “A Bum Rap?”
Of course, for Goldy, the start of this blog launched him into a decade of impoverished muckrakery, living off of small donations, double digit blog advertisement revenue, and an occasional ghost-writing gig. Those were hard, if fun, years; Goldy took some scalps along the way.
Times have changed. We all have troubles, it seems. Just today we learned that farm bankrupcies are way up in the midwest.
And legal problems have finally brought down Horsesass. Fines, legal fees, court orders, high voltage! (done dirt cheap).
When I say “Horsesass”, perhaps I should say, the Horse’s Ass. Yes…the anti-government agitator, the perpetual purveyor of defective initiatives, Mr. self-identified lying liar, this blog’s namesake himself, Tim “Biggest-Lie-Of-My-Life” Eyman has filed for bankruptcy:
Attorney General Bob Ferguson has accused Eyman of secretly moving funds between two initiative campaigns in 2012 and receiving $308,000 in kickbacks from the firm that collected signatures for both measures.
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Ferguson filed a lawsuit in March 2017 seeking $1.8 million in penalties, plus reimbursement of the funds Eyman received from the firm.
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In documents filed Wednesday, Eyman reported assets of more than $2 million and liabilities of $3.2 million. He owes $77,000 in legal fees and a disputed $3.1 million to the Office of the Attorney General, according to the reports.
It’s an “own goal.” Eyman blatantly violated campaign finance laws, and thwarted court orders. And, apparently, he’s fresh out of sugar daddies.
Eyman claims the legal actions against him have caused his wife to divorce him. Yeah…I’m guessing it’s the lies! (Or maybe the embarrassing costumes?)
No word yet on whether his dog has run away.
Buses honking at cars in the stop is my favorite thing. I don’t know, yesterday coming home honk honk honk. Sure it’s like 10:30 in a fairly residential neighborhood. So great from the bus, probably less so if you’re in an apartment trying to sleep. I assume it’s rideshare drivers, but maybe it’s delivery people. I know that it’s tough to find a place to idle your car for a few minutes while you wait for the next customer, but stay out of the bus stop. Honk honk honk.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening for some politics and conversation over a pint. Please stop by.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!
Can whoever is killing sea lions please stop? It seems like not fucking killing sea lions would be the default. Come to think of it, I have lived my whole damn life not killing sea lions.
If you see a sea lion today, just let it be. Same tomorrow and the next day. Pretty soon you’ve gone a week without killing any sea lions. Then a month of no killing sea lions. Because you know it, not killing sea lions becomes a habit.
Farron Cousins: Motel 6 agrees to massive settlement for turning guest info over to ICE
Seth Meyers: Minority voter suppression.
Roll Call: Lame duck Congressional hits and misses.
Rachel Maddow: GOP gerrymandering—Democratic votes not matched by seats gained:
Chris Hayes: Cindy Hyde-Smith stumbles in senate debate.
Mental Floss: Cooking facts and life hacks!
The Atlantic: The most extreme railway in the world.
WaPo: Cindy Hyde-Smith’s controversial comments, a timeline.
Lauren Mayer: Thanks for rich liberals!
Louis Black: Flat Earth International conference.
Mother Jones: Lockdown!
The Dotard Трамп and His Band of White Nationalist:
Trevor: Kristen Gillibrand is fighting for New Yorkers and celebrating the “Bold & Brave”.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Vox: The roots of America’s democracy problem.
Ari Melber: New Blue Congress breaks diversity records, plummets average age.
Jim Jefferies: Why immigrants should be celebrated, not feared
Trevor: Khizr Khan paying tribute to Democratic values in “An American Family”:
The Atlantic: A dangerous job at the highest point on Earth.
Chris Hayes: A humanitarian crisis unfolds in California
Real Engineering: Britain’s most daring WW2 raid
Stephen: Justice Sonia Sotomayor allows Stephen to approach the bench
Trevor: Pete Souza on being the eyes of the White House in “Obama: An Intimate Portrait”.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Man, what the hell, Republic? If you care about the Second Amendment, form a well regulated militia. You actually can do that. I mean protect yourself from invading Canadians, or insurrectionary elements or whatever. But this is silly.
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