The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets Tuesday evening for our weekly dose of politics, pondered over a pint.
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 239 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.
Another day, another mass shooting. Another round of meaningless expressions of thoughts and prayers. Another set of it’s-too-soons when anyone discusses solutions. Another rush to ignore a history of domestic violence (speculative at this point, but given the history). Another until the next.
1 Timothy 2:12
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Discuss.
Seth Meyers: Jordan Klepper riled his alt-right inspiration Alex Jones with The Opposition
Jordan Klepper: Meet the citizen journalists.
David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: What’s a filibuster?
Take a mental vacation by ignoring Puerto Rico.
Трамп and His Band of Dotards:
VOX: Why 23 million Americans don’t have fast internet
Trevor bumps into President Obama.
The Opposition: Reviewing reviews with Kobi Libii.
The GOP’s Latest Attempt to Kill Americans:
Roy Zimmerman: Dreamer:
Seth Meyers: Josh Earnest reflects on his tenure as President Obama’s press secretary.
The one big problem the GOP cannot shake.
Knee Shoes: The perfect solution to the NFL kneeling controversy
Francesca Fiorentini: Why corporations LOVE Puerto Rico’s tragedy.
VOX: How QWERTY conquered keyboards
Crazy-ass Shit in Alabama:
Jordan Klepper: Which numbers can be trusted?.
Trevor: It’s time to pay back Puerto Rico
Why trying to steal an ATM machine is a terrible idea.
Full Frontal: Wake up to Gabe Fleisher.
WaPo: Obama’s other speechwriter.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Get your flu shot. Yes, you. Herd immunity is vitally important. And even if you think you’ll be fine, you never know who you’re passing it along to on the bus, out shopping, at work, etc. So for God’s sake, get a flu shot.
Do y’all use diacritical marks when writing in English? I only use the umlaut to indicate that you pronounce both vowels in words like reärrange. Because I am an idiot, when I write for work, I vary when I use them. So if I’m emailing someone in the office next to me, it’s äëïöü, but if it’s to a client or whatever outside, I just use unädorned vowels.
Please join us this evening for political conversation over a drink at tonight’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 small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 238 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.
I was at a family function over the weekend. I know, the stereotype is that old white people are Trump’s base, but not my aunt and my grandmother. I never thought of either of them as particularly political, but my goodness.
Ezekiel 23:19-20
Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Discuss.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) tells Jimmy Kimmel whether it is more fun being a Senator or a comedian.
Stephen: The worst campaign ad of the 2018 mid-terms has arrived
Bill Maher: New rule, city mouse, country mouse.
Minute Physics: Solar panels made with a particle accelerator?!?
Dotard Трамп and Friends:
Seth Meyers: Who the hell is Dana Rohrabacher?.
Adam ruins Mt. Rushmore.
VOX: The rise and fall of the American fallout shelter.
Hillary Clinton Won 3M Votes More Than Трамп:
Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Samantha Bee: Is there any hope for the left?
Mental Floss: 26 facts about libraries.
VOX: How American Gothic became iconic.
Repeat Offenders—Republicans are Trying To Kill Americans, Again:
Dom Joy: 50 state word association .
Stephen: A very Ted Cruz porno.
Farron Cousins: Republican politicians launch their own fake news website to spread propaganda.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
So, who should replace Tim Burgess on the City Council? It can be anyone in Seattle. I will take myself out of contention.
When Jim Compton left, and there was an opening on the Council, they said they wanted a woman of color, got a hundred or so applications, and went with a white lady. This time, there are women of color on the Council, so maybe they’ll say that they need some other unrepresented group, and then not pick them.
So, Tim Burgess. Are you excited? This guy? (Seattle Times link, and he has changed some positions since then) The guy who wrote an excessive panhandling law so broad that it probably would have covered The Girl Scouts selling cookies on the street?
Sure…it seems like the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets way to frequently. But, since our last meeting, Seattle is on its third mayor. And we’ve discovered rain again. And health insurance for ~30 million Americans is on the chopping block…again. And our President has threatened to “destroy” a nation of 25 million people. So drop by tonight and we’ll all catch up on all the local, regional, national and international politics.
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 238 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.
New, new mayor day, Seattle. I say we just have a new mayor every week. This year we’ll have a gay mayor, a person of color mayor, a Republican mayor (probably), and a woman mayor. What a shitty political year.
If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.
Discuss.
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