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Remember the last Congressional redistricting? Washington got an extra seat, and at least from outside, it seemed like the Democrats’ main objective was making sure Denny Heck had a seat.

I saw someone retweet Congressman Heck the other day, and I realized how little I hear about what he’s doing. I know he has been in the minority party in an obstructionist Congress, but you hear about other Democrats from Washington more often. According to his Wikipedia page, his big thing is marijuana banking. I don’t know if that’s his priority, or the priority of Wikipedia editors.

Still, he got a safe seat, and I would have hoped he could use it better than a generic Democrat.

I know that compared to the rest of the country I can’t complain, but it’s too cold. Yesterday my bus kept being a few more minutes late than the previous time I had checked. So I stood outside for like 15 minutes. I recommend against that.

Join us on Tuesday evening to toast in the new year at this week’s edition 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 small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 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.

A history of the iconic White House magnolia tree.

Young Turks: Conservatives to Tomi Lahren, “Who’s the snowflake now?”

Out With A Worn-out Old Year And In With A Shiny New Year:

• NASA: Top 17 earth images of 2017
• The Daily Show: 2017 sports roundup
• Mark Fiore: The year in Tweet.
• Ari Melber and friends: Big moments in 2017 from the women’s march to “fake news.”
• 2017 was the year of the….
• Francesca Fiorentini: Five reasons to take to the fucking streets in 2018:

• Daily Show: Careers in Memoriam, 2017
• ISS: Happy New Year from space.
• Areal views of natural disasters in 2017
• Daily Show: Cable news’s best moments of 2017
• Super Deluxe Music of 2017
• 2017: The year of the news alert.

Chris Hayes: Senator Orrin Hatch “grateful” Op-Ed cited his “lack of integrity.”

Blowing up stuff in the name of science.

VOX: How this military explosive is poisoning American soil

Dotard Трамп and That Criminal Organization Running Out of the White House:

• Ari Melber: Comedians respond to the Dotard Трамп in 2017.
• Joy Reid: Muller moves beyond Трамп and investigates RNC digital operations
• Young Turks: Трамп displays pure stupidity on climate change
• Sam Seder: Alex Jones craziest rant EVER, fantasizes about Трамп getting wacked by the FBI
• WaPo: Watch Трамп lie about his accomplishments in office.
• Farron Cousins: Has Трамп already proven that he’s dumber than George W. Bush?
• Трамп administration shatters record for highest turnover rate in a President’s first year:
  

  In honor of this great accomplishment here's a video of everyone who has left pic.twitter.com/6GdhowXC9z

  — Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) December 28, 2017

• Ari Melber and friends: Dotard Трамп claims he has an “absolute right” to do what he wants with DOJ.
• The 2017 class of Трамп exiles
• Bad Lip Reading: Dotard Трамп sings “Christmas is here!”
• Chris Hayes: Dotard Трамп golfs for two days after saying it’s “back to work”
• WaPo: Here’s what President Трамп got wrong about climate change….
• David Pakman: Trump’s worst moments with world leaders
• Ari Melber with Joy Reid: Barack Obama tрампs Dotard Трамп as ‘most admired man’
• Farron Cousins: Dotard Трамп is losing his mind one Tweet at a time.
• Трамп’s strangest moments of 2017:

• Chris Hayes: Dotard Трамп’s Hoeskstra “Lies about his lies”.

Ed Helms & Jack Black wrote a song to fix politics

How to ratify a 200 year old Constitutional amendment

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

Now that Trump is president, can we say “Happy New Year”? Or does it still have to be “Merry Christmas” for that too? For the last few years, I’ve been a fan of “We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here.”

I was walking to Drinking Liberally the other night, and the city was all lit up. Christmas decorations, trees, really looked nice in the remaining snow.

Still, all I could think was: Man, Christmas starts earlier and earlier. I mean, wait for New Years Day to pass at least.

Join us this this evening for a “good riddance, 2017!” edition 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 small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

Snooooooooooooooooooooow!

Jeremiah 10:2-4

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Discuss.

Daily Show: Can liberals survive the apocalypse?.

Information about the winter solstice.

Young Turks: Roy Moore’s Muslim Marxist MELTDOWN.

Samantha Bee: FAUX and Friends’ war on justice.

The Dotard Трамп and His Merry Band of Looters, Thieves, and Deviants:

• The Late Show: The Dossier’s rebuttal to Dotard Трамп.
• Seth Meyers: Words the Трамп administration wants to replace.
• Samantha Bee: Apocalypse soon.
• Young Turks: Nobody kisses ass like Mike Pence!
• VOX: How Трамп makes extreme things look normal:

• Farron Cousins: Трамп family so bad at filling out forms that all their election ballots were thrown out.
• Трамп’s unqualified judge nominee embarrassed.
• Ari Melber: Dotard Трамп hid Mar-A-Lago tax deal from IRS.
• Farron Cousins: Dotard Трамп believes that all women are beneath him and he isn’t afraid to show it.
• Sam Seder: Трамп Jr. lies through his dumb teeth about people trying to take down his daddy.
• Seth Meyers: Senator-elect Doug Jones wants us to listen to President Трамп’s accusers.
• David Pakman: ANOTHER unqualified Трамп nominee drops out in shame.
• Maddow: GOP have been meeting in secret to undermine the FBI’s investigation of the Dotard Трамп.
• Seth Meyers: Republicans praise Трамп; Трамп claims he repealed Obamacare.
• Donald Pup the Трамп Pup: A Трамп Pup Christmas.
• Samantha Bee goes to church.
• Chris Hayes: Dan Rather on the similarities of the Dotard Трамп and Nixon presidencies.
• Young Turks: Trump Ambassador to The Netherlands is BUSTED!
• Sam Seder: U.S. Ambassador caught lying by reporter, incoherently tries to defend himself.
• Farron Cousins: Трамп is officially the Worst President Ever, says hardcore conservative George Will.
• Late Night: A Трамп Christmas Carol.
• Jackie Sampson: The 12 Months of Трамп:

• Ari Melber: Gov. Jay Inslee, “We must stand up to Dotard Трамп.”
• Sam Seder: Animatronic William Howard Taft calls in to defend nightmarish Трамп robot.
• Young Turks: Nikki Haley needs more friends.
• WaPo: Трамп name to be stripped from posh New York hotel.
• Young Turks: Трамп’s banned words list.

Jimmy Kimmel: The year in unnecessary censorship.

VOX: How smart is today’s artificial intelligence?

New Scientist: The best science and tech stories of the year.

HBO: Alabama—The special election.

Daily Show: Today’s future now — Crime-fighting technology.

The GOP Tax Scam on America:

• WaPo Opinion: The tax bill is the worst domestic policy legislation in a lifetime.
• Seth Meyers: Republicans pass their tax scam.
• Sam Seder: Paul Ryan admits he has no clue if the GOP tax scam will work.
• Chris Hayes: Don’t believe Republicans who say they care about debt.
• WaPo Opinion: The GOP is giddy about its tax bill, but Democrats will laugh last.
• Schumer promises to “hammer away” at “unpopular” tax bill.
• Roy Zimmerman: Chuck G’s in Love:

• Elizabeth Warren: The GOP tax bill is for the rich, and no one else.
• Young Turks: Paul Ryan’s stunning tax cut admission.
• Chris Hayes: Many G.O.P. and Ivanka Trump bungle the basics of the tax bill.
• Sam Seder: Ivanka Трамп proves she’s a total moron after botching tax facts on FAUX.
• Seth Meyers: Senator-elect Doug Jones shares his thoughts on the Republican tax plan.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: White House repeats lie about Dotard Трамп’s tax returns.
• Mark Fiore: Christmas made permanent for billionaires.
• David Pakman: Republicans are clueless about what’s in the tax bill they just passed.
• Maddow: GOP tax bill set to make rich richer at everyone else’s expense.
• WaPo: Who gains and who loses under the G.O.P. tax plan?

Newsbroke: White genocide—Fake and present danger.

David Hawkings: The GOP is anxious to look productive in 2018—4 takeaways from the 2018 Congressional calendar.

Trevor Noah: The politics of branding, meeting Obama & Трамп’s first year.

Mental Floss: 500 facts.

I know Robert Muller.

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

Important PSA everyone:

If it’s cold or wet, and there’s a line to get on the bus, have your payment handy before you get to the front. I don’t understand how anyone gets in line IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE and then can’t be bothered to fish out their ORCA Card or transfer. I don’t get it when it’s nice out, but it’s extra shitty in the winter.

Congrats to everyone who voted for the tax cuts for the wealthy. I look forward to hearing what a deficit hawk you are when you gut education and Social Security to make up part of the difference in a few years.

Join us this Tuesday evening for a “what’s all that smiling about?” edition 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 small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

How far do you feel you have to go in a book before you abandon it. I say unless you’ve been told it starts slow, if you didn’t like chapter 1, stop reading. I don’t have time for this shit.

But now, I’m reading a book on the July Crisis (between Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand being assassinated and the outbreak of World War One). It’s good, but slow going. I am well over 200 pages in. There’s a lot of interesting stuff about Balkan nationalist movements and great power politics. But so far, the Arch Duke remains sadly still alive.

I think I might give it up even though it is interesting, because it’s taking forever.

Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Discuss.