I’m looking forward to the employment numbers this morning. I may have been briefed on them yesterday, but today I’ll really delve deeper. I’ll be sure to keep Tweeting if I find something interesting.
Prime rate held steady at 79.2%. That’s a number.
They slightly revised the April numbers too. Did you know they could do that?
So Ambien got Rosanne fired?
I blame Ambien for America’s inability to apologize.
Ambien made slavery and Jim Crow.
Ambien fucked up all that money.
Jesus Christ on the Cross, did Ambien make conservatives forgot that they pretend to be about personal responsibility?
Please join us this evening for a round of political prognostication over a pint at 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? 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.
Hosea 13:16
The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.
Discuss.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Solar panels and whining cheerleaders
Jimmy Kimmel: Do whatever you want at Starbucks!
Mental Floss: Dogs can smell fear, and other dog facts
Newsbroke: Powerful White Nationalists behind the “English only” movement
Mark Fiore: Freedom sticks.
Young Turks: Racist woman attacks US serviceman.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Jeanine Pirro is an American institution
The Dotard Трамп And His Band of Dopes:
Jimmy Kimmel does Jordan Klepper
Michael Brooks: Moron NRA spokesman responds to NFL rule like a third grader
Jim Jefferies: Leave your emotional support camel at home.
Heads of State: Gorsuch rules against workers in forced arbitration case.
Vox: Why people are buying cartoon cats on the blockchain
The Atlantic: Edge of Daybreak—The real jailhouse rock.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
Samantha Bee will make you care about Yemen.
NOVA: AI explained—What is a neural net?
David Pakman: NFL goes fascist, bans kneeling during National Anthem
Midterm Madness:
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Cecile Richards—Planned Parenthood and “Make trouble”
Jonathan Mann: Boycott the NFL.
The Atlantic: The Collapsing Bridge—a poem.
Samantha Bee: Abolish ICE!:
Vox: Monogamy, explained.
Seth Meyers: This is the kind of story we need right now.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Jordan’s predictions—Future fake news
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
It’s not on their website, but KUOW had a piece on the band Thunderpussy. It was fantastic how many times they said it. I have no idea who in standards and practices approved it, but all the kudos.
White American Evangelical Christians are going to have to figure out how far they’re willing to go along with Trump. I know, how about stop when he discriminated against Black people in housing? Or when he took his first shit in a gold plated toilet in a tower over a then impoverished city. Or when he said Mexicans are rapists. Or when when they heard him bragging about all the sexual assault. Or his attacks on food stamps and insurance while giving tax cuts to the wealthy. Or the sex outside marriage.
I know, for decent people support for Trump should have waned long ago, or never started. But now it’s at least a possibly that paid for one of his mistress’ abortions. Now, I don’t care if it wasn’t coerced. But White Evangelicals have been pretending that abortion is the same thing as murder for decades. I don’t think that they will care, but maybe that will be too far.
Once again, tonight is an election night with primaries in Arkansas, Georgia and Kentucky, and some runoff elections in Texas. Stop by tonight’s edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally and join our conversations about politics, elections, guns, the media, bike lanes, head tax….
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.
What ever happened to Seattle nice?
I was on the bus over the weekend, and I sat in the seats over the wheels that face each other, as opposed to the ones that face forward. It was bright out, so I had my sunglasses on. I should say for this story that they weren’t particularly dark.
I wasn’t really paying attention to anything other than the podcast about the Holy Roman Empire that I was listening to. The guy sitting across from me says, “where are you getting off the bus?”
I assumed he was going to need some help with something and was looking for a recruit. I really didn’t know. “Queen Anne.”
He didn’t say anything for a bit and then angrily said, “take your fucking glasses off. You’re being creepy.”
Now, I’m not damaging my eyes because some coked up (?) jackass on the bus is having a paranoid reaction to me sitting. So I sort of nod my head no, and go back to the podcast. Now guy who is concerned about creepy people on the bus is starting at me intently. And I have to pay him much more attention than I had been. He got off the bus before me and the rest of the section of the bus started laughing at him.
Be nicer, Seattle.
Numbers 15:32-36
While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.” So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Discuss.
Trevor’s solution to unnecessary 911 calls.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: “Dangerous minds”-ing the Colorado teachers’ strike
The Atlantic: The 99% is a myth—here’s how it really breaks down.
Physics Girl: The most mysterious object in the universe.
Young Turks: Tomi Lahren gets owned on immigration.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Grifter Dotard Трамп and Company:
John Oliver: Venezuela
Jimmy Dore: Rick Perry gives Dennis Miller mean jokes to use on female comedian.
Ronny Chieng: “Pawfficer Donut” becomes Michigan’s first police cat.
Young Turks: Republican breaks stupid meter with “scientific” theory
Kurzgesagt: The deadliest being on planet earth.
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
The Atlantic: A visual history of light.
Hate’n and Shoot’n In ‘Merica:
Francesca Fiorentini: The biggest myths about socialism.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The unimpressive royal wedding
Big Tobacco saying sorry (because they legally have to).
Jim Jefferies with Curtis Cook: Is Kanye West the mythical Black Republican?
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
There’s a small part of me that hopes there is an initiative to repeal the head tax. I haven’t seen any polls, but I can’t imagine team regressive taxes and do nothing about homelessness is popular among Seattle voters. Still, I hope you don’t sign if you see a petition. It’s past time to deal with homelessness in Seattle.
So, obvi, all private server email scandals aren’t the same. Hillary Clinton deleting emails after her lawyer says it’s fine isn’t nearly as bad as the Republican Party losing State Department emails on their server. But if you’re going to say what about email servers, at the very least, don’t do it when you get in power. Honestly get your shit together.
It’s another election Tuesday with primaries in Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon and Pennsylvania. Additionally, there are some special election in state house or senate districts in Pennsylvania and Alabama. Stop by tonight’s edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally and join the conversations about national, state, or local politics. Or just decompress over a drink.
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.
Later this month is the 400th anniversary of the Defenestration of Prague. I have trouble wrapping my head around the 30 Years’ War, let alone the Holy Roman Empire. It’s tough to imagine the religious fervor. I don’t think anyone who participated could understand the horror they were unleashing.
The world seems very very different from ours. And yet 400 years seems like not much time at all.
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