We recently hired a new college graduate. I am a little thrown by her using phrases sincerely that I would only make with a hint (or more) of irony. I don’t know what to do with “woot” when it’s just a genuine expression of happiness.
I guess my question is, is this confusion how the olds feel when I use “rad”?
Game on, boys and girls! It’s election day, and the polls have closed in half the states.
Kindly note that this is an election thread. Keep on topic or kindly shuttle your ass to the open thread below.
I’m headed to Drinking Liberally now, so surprise me with your insights in the comment thread.
6:01: Well…at least Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has won!
6:04: Beto still leads by a hair. And Klobuchar (D-MN) has won.
6:05: Looks like Felons in Florida are going to be able to help elect the next President!
6:07: Cool…I am just getting caught up here after arriving at DL. Hey…a D is leading in NE for Gov? Interesting.
6:16: My early assessment is that this is not really a blue wave. More like a blue splash. There are some very pleasing results, like Ted Cruz trailing a punk rocker–Ted Cruz is a weasely punk. But many races are going, more or less, as expected.
I feel like people are not making a big enough deal about Florida restoring voting rights to formerly incarcerated people. There are about 1.5M people (20% of FL’s Af-Am adult population)who stand to benefit from this. In 2016, Trump won Florida by just over 100,000 votes.
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) November 7, 2018
6:32: Oh…cool.
Donna Shalala flipped the second House seat of the night for Democrats on Tuesday by beating Republican Maria Elvira Salazar. https://t.co/f4i4tDLKGA
— Stone Cold (@stonecold2050) November 7, 2018
Many of you hear “Donna Shalala” and think, “Oh yeah, Clinton’s HSS secretary.” But Donna Shalala was the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin—Madison when I earned two degrees. She signed my diplomas. I’ve chatted with her. So…cool.
6:59: WOW! Kansas! Gov!
BREAKING: Democrat Laura Kelly defeats GOP's Kris Kobach to become next governor of Kansas, @NBCNews projects. https://t.co/GEzfm4Reei pic.twitter.com/pIb9gRfKrF
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) November 7, 2018
Looks like everything is going to come out just as expected. D’s take House by OK margin but not blowout, R’s gain a little ground in the Senate. D’s gain some governorships and state houses.
— Samuel Minter (@abulsme) November 7, 2018
Look at it this way. We won't have Attorney General Ted Cruz.
— Joan McCarter (@joanmccarter) November 7, 2018
7:21: MSNBC is now calling the House for Democrats.
The NYT currently projects a national popular-vote margin of D+9.2%. For comparison, the last five largest margins, considered wave elections:
1994: R+7.1%
2006: D+8.0%
2008: D+10.6%
2010: R+7.2%
2014: R+5.7%By historical standards, it's a popular wave.https://t.co/IRkQLDZ2dX
— Sam Wang (@SamWangPhD) November 7, 2018
HELL YES THEY ARE.
Three flipped gov seats. A whole bunch of House flips. A whole bunch of down-ballot statewides. https://t.co/YUUyfiacaK— Christina Reynolds (@creynoldsnc) November 7, 2018
Good. We fucking hate you. https://t.co/DBkbSf8heT
— Mike (@vidae01) November 7, 2018
It’s been a wild couple of years feeling like our democracy has been held together with spit and bailing wire. Today, we’ve wheeled ‘er into the pits to clean off the grunge, replace some nuts and a few bolts, do some serious alignment and, perhaps, a rebuilt the top end. Please join us Tuesday evening for an Election Day rally at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
But, before you stop by, if you haven’t done so please be sure to return your ballot in a drop-box. Here’s how you can find a ballot drop box near you.
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 for our usual 8pm starting time. For election night, some of us will show up much earlier.
The Roanoke will have TVs tuned to election coverage. They have free WiFi. And you can buy drinks! If you insist on hearing every word of coverage, bring headphones and a device to stream audio. What can I say? Bars can be noisy.
We’ll be live-blogging the election right here.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 259 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.
Please vote. Get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by tomorrow, Washington. Vote for a cleaner environment. Vote for holding team baby cages accountable. Vote because all of the trolls here are voting, and you don’t want them to have more power than you. Vote because corporations can spend millions of dollars on initiatives and candidates, but ultimately you get to decide.
Samantha Bee: Larry Krasner—Finally a good DA?.
Robert Reich: The American social contract
Nancy Pelosi: Chocolate taste test.
Vox: NAFTA, explained with a toy car.
The Orange Nationalist, Dotard Трамп, and Other Sociopaths:
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
Jim Jefferies: Staying healthy is actually killing us.
Wendover: The magic economics of gambling.
Comics discuss the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
VOTE!
WaPo: How social media is changing the presidency
The Atlantic: Holocaust survivors remember Kristallnacht.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Stephen: Leader Nancy Pelosi makes a midterm prediction.
The Altlantic: You should be worried about your DNA privacy.
Racists Suck:
TED: How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff.
WaPo: The life of the first woman Supreme Court justice.
Roy Wood, Jr.: Black Floridians who made history.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Vote. Get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by Tuesday. Volunteer.
The country is in trouble, and it will be after the election. There is no magic trick to fix it. But Democrats in Congress is a step forward. It means checks on executive power. It means we can push for more universal health care. It means we can push environmental legislation. You can help.
I am rereading Don Quixote for the first time in decades. I’m not very far into it this time, but the good stuff is as good as I remember. The windmills hold up. The book burning is great: I had forgotten that it has a discussion of an earlier Cervantes book. So good!
But Christ on the Cross, the stuff that roots it in its time is not good in ways that I had forgotten about! A long digression about how you can’t trust Arabs, yikes. I remember some of these things, but it’s worse than I remember.
Have you voted yet? If not, do not delay! Fill out that ballot and drop it in a mailbox on your way to the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
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 256 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.
Nobody murder anyone. Not at Shabbat. No pipe bombs. Don’t shoot anyone in a Kroger parking lot. Just don’t. Just because the President said something. Or you’re scared of people who aren’t white Christians.
Vox: The biggest corruption scandal in Latin America’s history.
Stephen: Nebraska’s painfully honest new state slogan.
Seth Meyers: Wrong take.
WaPo: U.S. hunters stir controversy with overseas kills.
Second Thoughts: Why the IPCC report is so scary.
Robert Reich: Message to millennials:
Mental Floss: Spooky Halloween facts!
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
Stephen: Florida’s Senate debate hs some mic drops.
Vox: The quest for the perfect apple.
Jimmy Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.
WaPo: Megyn Kelly’s rocky tenure at NBC.
The Atlantic: Don’t blame social media for violence
Stephen reveals a sketch of the serial bomber.
Kurzgesagt: Why beautiful things make us happy.
Nationalist Dotard Трамп and other Pre-existing Conditions:
Real Engineering: Can we block the sun to stop climate change.
Late Show: One question with Hillary Clinton.
The Daily Show: Black girl midterm magic.
Bill Maher: Peak Florida .
WaPo: How preexisting conditions became a central issue ahead of the 2018 midterm elections
Comics take on Megyn Kelly’s black face comment.
Late Show: Tuesday The 6th: Voting Day:
The Atlantic: Men are socialized to “act inhumanely”.
Amber Ruffin addresses Megyn Kelly asking if blackface is racist.
Jimmy Dore: Utah voters “values” are “shocking” as Mitt Romney reveals.
New Yorker: Andy Borowitz & Adam Schiff on how Democrats can win.
WaPo: Here’s what Florida’s demographic changes mean for the midterm elections.
Robert Reich: The next crash.
Jimmy Kimmel: Utah Senator tries marijuana for the first time.
WaPo Opinion: Political ads want you to be afraid. Very afraid.
Vox: Apollo 11’s journey to the moon, annotated.
Minute Physics: Legitimate cold fusion exists.
Lauren Mayer: Doin’ The Deficit Side Step:
Rachel Maddow: New data shows why NC Republicans want to end Sunday voting.
Full Frontal: The rainbow wave is coming.
Late Show: How Saudi Arabia is reporting the news
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
So, black face. I don’t really care about Megyn Kelly. She and her millions of dollars will be fine. But her cruelty was toxic. Ratings were down. It works on Fox News. It works for segments of the Internet. But for a network morning show, it turned more people away than it brought in.
And then she was cool with black face. Don’t ever do that, obviously. But especially don’t if you’re on thin ice.
Been a busy morning, so I haven’t had a chance to write anything.
The ballots have dropped and there are only two weeks to the midterm elections. Let’s chat about it at this week’s meeting of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
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 256 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.
My goodness, this is a new form of voter suppression to me. It’s kind of nice to see the Republicans give up on trying to push a conservative agenda. But seriously, fuck them.
It isn’t cute. It is a crude attempt to hold on to power by muddying the waters. Shame on anyone associated with it.
Also, too! That’s not how a write in candidacy works. You have to register to be a write in candidate. And you would see a lot more information than one random flier from a group you’re never heard of before.
Stephen: Tucker-boy Carlson can’t go to restaurants anymore
Trevor: Elizabeth Warren proves her Native American heritage.
Samantha Bee: Voter suppression:
Wendover: Greece’s geography problem.
Late Show: Canada already has a pot tourism ad.
Mark Fiore: Profit now, die later.
Trevor: Global warming threatens the beer supply
Mother Jones: November could actually bring good news for voting rights
The Dotard Трамп and Other Horses Asses:
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
SNL Weekend Update: U.N.’s Climate Change Report.
Full Frontal: The no-wave wave.
Jimmy Kimmel: Congressional Candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on healthcare, education & voting.
Robert Reich: Three easy fixes for Social Security and Medicare
Stephen: Here’s why white supremacists are chugging milk.
Trevor: “Cornerstore Caroline” falsely accuses a 9-year-old black boy of sexual assault.
Kingdom of Murder:
Jim Jefferies: America has a recycling problem.
Late Show: What went on inside Ted Cruz’s brain while debating Beto.
Samantha Bee: Culture Wars, Episode 69.
Late Show: Moses updates the Ten Commandments:
NASA: Science at 17,500 MPH.
Trevor: GOP voter suppression ramps up in Georgia.
Vox: How IKEA gets you to impulsively buy more.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
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