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HA Bible Study: Deuteronomy 22:13-21

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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.

Friday Night Mulitmedia Extravaganza!

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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.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe 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.

open thread

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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.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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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.

Open Thread.

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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.

SOTFS Address

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President Shithouse is going to talk reel gud about himself in a few minutes. This thread is your sandbox.

5:59: Melania sends a message to President Shithouse.

6:06: The Dotard is in the house.

6:11: Why is the Dotard clapping? And swaying like he has to pee?

6:11: It looks like Melania is standing next to two men—One really short and one in uniform. No doubt, this will really piss off President Shithouse.

6:18: “If there’s a porn star, we tap it!”

6:25: What what? The individual mandate is the “core of ObamaCare?” Hardly. I am old enough to remember Obama campaigning AGAINST a mandate. Hillary was FOR the mandate. Ultimately Congress put it in to ensure enough young, healthy people signed up to reduce rates for everyone. ObamaCare lives, but President Shithouse and the Republicans own forthcoming premium increases.

6:32: “…and why we proudly stand for the National Anthem.” So now we are getting into the “racist fuck” part of the talk.

6:36: Seems to me that no federal employee undermines trust in the government than The Dotard himself. “Mr. President, it is time to resign.”

6:37: “America is now a net exporter of energy.” Yeah…that was the case under Obama.

6:55: The Dotard brings out the token Hispanic person…. Sorry, Shithouse, you aren’t going to get the Hispanic vote.

6:59: Republicans are all into pillars now. I’m old enough to remember when Barack Obama took all kinds of shit about the pillars at his nomination acceptance speech.

7:07: Man…that story about the cop who adopted the baby of the drug addicted woman was creepy! Is that the best heart-lifting story they could fucking find?!?

7:17: …”and we no longer tell our enemies our plans”…unless you consider Russia our enemy.

7:18: Shorter Drumpf on U.N.: “We bought your votes and you voted against us, damnit!”

7:19: …”sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela”…but not Russia!

7:26: Maybe I missed something. What was the point of the protracted anecdote about he Korean guy with crutches?

7:32: That was a LOT of windbaggery empty rhetoric.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle: State of the Union edition

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DLBottlePlease join us Tuesday evening for a State of the Union edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. The SOTU begins about 6pm local time, so we will start early. If you are boycotting the SOTU, stop by for the Democratic rebuttal at about 7:30pm. Oh, and I’ll be live-blogging the SOTU right here.

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. We usually start at 8pm, but join us by 6pm for the SOTU address.





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.

open open open open open thread

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I’m a slow reader. So it’s no bad mark against What Happened to say that I’m only about half way through. It’s still a mix of beautiful, funny, and harrowing. I guess Hillary Clinton had prerecorded a bit on the Grammys. According to parts of my Twitter, she was the worst for just showing up. I mostly feel sorry for people who think that, honestly. Hillary hate and misogyny mean you’re missing out.

It’s like the cut of the new Star Wars movie without the women. It seems like a terrible film: (minor spoilers) Kylo mostly talks to himself, sometimes shirtless. Then he gets into a fight and stares at a light saber that’s inexplicably floating. Luke tries to burn down a tree, after living alone for too long, and watching rocks fall. At some point they face off, and it helps like 5 people. Also, there’s a mutiny: Against who? How does it get resolved? Nobody knows.

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