1 Kings 11:1-3
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.
Discuss.
Sam Seder: Alex Jones obsesses over sperm on Barack Obama’s face
Chris Hayes: GOP candidate’s parents donate to his Democratic opponent
Bill Maher does Vicente Fox.
Daily Show: Livin’ on the street—Whose fault is it when the stock market drops?
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Ijeoma Oluo—You can’t “win” a conversation about race
The Dotard Трамп and His Clown Parade:
Mental Floss: Valentine’s Day.
Trevor interviews Heroes of “The 15:17 to Paris”.
CP Times with Roy Wood Jr.: Unsung Black Heroes of Politics.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: At war with machines
Hasan the Record: Free speech—If you can’t beat ’em, troll ’em
Francesca Fiorentini: How tech giants feed off capitalism’s failures:
Wendover: How overnight shipping works.
ANOTHER GODDAMN SCHOOL MASS SHOOTING?!?!?
What the collapse of immigration bills means for Dreamers.
Bad polling is ruining everything.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Ted Lieu and the Democrats’ push to take back the House:
Jimmy Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.
Young Turks: Republican candidate’s own parents don’t want him in office.
Trevor Noah’s Ark-eology: A hidden Mayan village & the Cheddar man
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Once again: Please everyone reading this, don’t murder anyone. I’m sick of having to write that, but people keep murdering. Honestly, don’t.
I should say to start that there may be times when a box of food instead of SNAP benefits might be beneficial. Save a trip or two worth of gas. Maybe for disabled, people not having to go to the grocery store is a positive.
The proposal isn’t that. And that said, there is a problem with the plan beyond how it infantilizes poor people. It’s that grocery stores are one of the few places where all strata of society meet. This proposal seems like another way for middle class and wealthy people to not think about poor people in their communities.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. And it happens to be a special election night. So, if you haven’t already done so, mail or drop off your ballot, and then swing by and join us for drinks and good cheer.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Seriously? Ok…then check out one of the 244 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or go out and start one if need be.
This Presidency is fucking exhausting. Should I write about massive deficits? The second wife beater? Cruel immigration garbage? It’s too much and all at once.
Deuteronomy 22:13-21
If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” then the girl’s father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate. The girl’s father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, and the elders shall take the man and punish him. They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the girl’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death.
Discuss.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Monopoly’s tabletop abomination
How the FISA process works.
The Census Gets Political:
James Corden: Political monologue
Seattle Mayor Durkan wants ALL past misdemeanor marijuana convictions erased from people’s records!
Bill Maher and Bari Weiss on the #MeToo movement
Inside Amy Schumer: Shhhh-Nacks.
The Dotard Трамп and His Parade of Banana Republic Idiots:
WaPo: Holocaust denier is running unopposed in Republican primary for Congress.
Samantha Bee: This week in chaos—Nukes
Lawrence O’Donnell: Charlie Cook suggests a blue wave following Dem win in Трамп country.
Vox: The horrific reality of a war with North Korea.
Jimmy Kimmel: Jesus is your flu shot.
Ari Melbur: GOP redistricting trick, threats to impeach judges amid blue wave.
Black History Month:
Mark Fiore: Buster the little nuke!
The new face of the NRA.
Sam Seder with Ari Berman: Koch brother scumbags and the best elections money can buy.
Jimmy Kimmel demonstrates why denying gay couples wedding cakes is wrong:
The fight for birthright citizenship in America.
Vox: Why do taxpayers pay billions for football stadiums?
Stephen: Missouri Senate candidate Courtland Sykes prefers sexism over feminism.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Fuck Rob Porter. Fuck this administration covering up for him. A lot of people should start resigning in disgrace, start with John Kelly. But also, the people who swore up and down that Kelly would be the grownup in the room can go too.
I should have noted the passage of the Reproductive Parity Act in the Senate earlier. Since it has passed the House multiple times, it should be law by the end of the session.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for our weekly gathering of conversation over drinks. Please stop by and say hello.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 244 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.
Super Bowl Sunday when you don’t have a rooting interest is the best. We only had a few hours of sunshine, but the park was practically empty. I had a great walk, then took a nearly empty bus home. I am generally in favor of more density, but every once in a while, I quite like using public amenities without all of the public.
Exodus 21:7
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.
Discuss.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: LGBT acceptance plummets in America
Minute Physics: Why is Relativity Hard? Special Relativity Chapter 1
Young Turks: Florida anti-voting rights law found unconstitutional.
State of The Dotard Трамп’s Mental Health:
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
Mental Floss: The Olympics.
VOX: The problem with online charter schools.
Political Grammys:
Slate: A brief history of fat and why we hate it.
VOX: What BMI doesn’t tell you about health
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Passing Judgment on Pope Francis, Tony Perkins and Google Home
Samantha Bee: Forced arbitration.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
The other day, The Seattle Times had a very good, well reported piece on who knew what in terms in Ed Murray’s past alleged sex abuse. It’s a good piece of reporting, and worth a read. But I have to comment on one thing that they didn’t do well.
Murray pointed out that news media had opted not to run the story in 2008, after Simpson and another accuser, Lloyd Anderson, threatened a lawsuit and spoke with some reporters.
Um, name the reporters. I know it’s tough if it’s your friends and colleagues, maybe even you, but people fucked up. There is probably an interesting press story about how he got away with it for so long.
Eager to share our brilliant political commentary and blunt media criticism, but too genteel to link to horsesass.org? Well, good news, ladies: we also answer to HASeattle.com, because, you know, whatever. You're welcome!