I’m writing this yesterday on the bus home from Drinking Liberally. So if there was something particularly Trumpish in the mean time I’m not ignoring it by writing how stinky the bus is.
But, y’all! It’s like stale fries with a side of burning oil. Why? I don’t see anyone eating fries (or burning oil).
Also, probably unrelated, but it was 18 minutes late. One Bus Away should have a feature where they let you know how your bus will smell, so you can choose the next one.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of conversations over a drink. By now, we’ve gotten our Washington primary ballots in the mail, so some discussion will arise over local politics….
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? There are 252 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.
There’s a part of me that’s still upset RKCNDY isn’t a music venue. I was pissed when I came back from college and it wasn’t a thing anymore. I still walk by where the Velvet Elvis and King Cat theater were, and there’s a nostalgic twang for past shows. If the Showbox goes away, I’ll probably feel the same about it.
But, there will be new venues. The show will go on, even if it goes on somewhere else.
Matthew 21:18-19
Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.
Discuss.
Late Show: California’s wine is showing traces of radioactivity.
Seth and Amy: Really! James Comey’s warning for Democrats.
WaPo: What you need to know about Jim Jordan.
Stephen examines the conservative “walk away” memes.
Vox: How not to get phished (like the DNC).
Daily Show: Staten Island has a serious deer problem
Jim Jefferies: How to offset your Amazon guilt.
Minute Physics: The physics of caramel
Mark Fiore: The Endangered Species Academy
Samantha Bee: The spy who loved the NRA
Roy Wood Jr.: CP Time on government conspiracies
Physics Girl: Sunscreen in UV.
The Very Promiscuous Dotard Трамп And His Fawning Disciples:
Real Engineering: The truth about hydrogen.
Rachel Maddow: Claire McCaskill ID’d as first 2018 target of Russian hackers.
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
Chris Hayes: Russia intel agency tried to hack Senator Claire McCaskill.
Jonathan Mann: Fuck you Panos, libraries are the best.
New Scientist: Heatwave could last for months.
Vox: Why there’s a ring of natural disasters around the Pacific.
Trevor with Annie Lowrey: “Give people money” and the case for a universal basic income.
Michelle Wolf: Pledge of allegiance.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Jim Jefferies: Diversity in comics makes bigots mad.
Nova: Liquid water found on Mars.
Stephen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is traumatizing to conservatives.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
It kind of sucks how much the mayor wants to kill a street car expansion. Metro seems to be committed to half empty buses in exurbia. Maybe that’s a reasonable idea maybe it isn’t. But Seattle should figure out ways to get people around. And once the stretch of track is laid, you can’t move it.
You can’t blame every heat wave on global warming. But it is to hot. And Seattle is going to have more of these. Ugh. I feel especially strange wearing short sleeves to work. At least I am not buying an air conditioner.
To our friends and acquaintances: JOIN US FOR OUR WEEKLY MEETING OF THE SEATTLE CHAPTER OF DRINKING LIBERALLY. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO BE THERE. SO STOP THE THREATS AND JUST SHOW UP!
Ahem…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? There are 253 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.
I know that Twitter can’t kick Trump off its platform permanently as long as he is the President. But! Surely a 12 hour ban after he threatens war with Iran. I mean some consequences are surely in order.
Exodus 21:28
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
Discuss.
The Atlantic: Life lessons—Everything is temporary.
Vox: How your split ends can help clean oil spills
John Oliver: Lost graphics, Vol. 3.
Trevor celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday.
WaPo: A 50-year-old photo mystery.
Eric Schwartz: I don’t know (A Sadly Topical Blues):
Stephen with Rep. Joe Kennedy III: House Republicans are doing nothing.
Jim Jefferies: Is America REALLY number one?
Vox: How 156 years of British rule shaped Hong Kong.
Mental Floss: The surprising history of Las Vegas and the Rat Pack!.
Now this World: Nelson Mandela’s legacy in South Africa today.
Trevor: Barack Obama’s Mandela address and world emoji day.
WaPo: Technology and luck—how cold cases are solved
Treasonous Трамп And His Tumultuous Treachery:
Vox: We produce 13 tons of hazardous waste every second
Minute Physics: Feynman’s lost lecture on planetary orbits.
Whoopi Goldberg OWNS FAUX News host.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
WaPo: A key innovation in how we use the pill today.
Vox: Road diets—designing a safer street.
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
Wendover: How airports make money
Stephen: The NRA-linked Russian spy who isn’t The Dotard Трамп.
Vox: The (mostly) true story of hobo graffiti.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Your ballot should be coming soon if it’s not already in the mail. Is there any election you’re looking forward to? I will be interested to see how the 8th District shakes out. What are you excited about? Anyway, get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by August 7.
Where are the gun nuts after the government started kidnapping children?
I mean they have been saying for years that they need to assemble an arsenal to avoid a tyrannical government. Some of them even formed a militia. And then they hear news that that same government has separated thousands of children from their parents. The government is missing court deadlines to fix the problem.
If their argument had been anything but complete bullshit, they would surely be at detention facilities. I don’t think that guns are the way to make political change in a democracy, but they do. Probably has something to do with the fact that they happily voted for a fascist President in the first place.
Please join us at the weekly “summit” of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. No treason and no collusion…just a little beverage perfusion.
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? There are 253 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.
So. Trump and Putin met. Hopefully it will prove at least as successful as the meeting with Kim. Maybe instead of an Elton John CD, they traded a DVD of the peepee tape.
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