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!
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:
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:
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.
Stephen: R.I.P. The Internet.
Young Turks: Five years after Sandy Hook massacre, less than nothing done on guns.
WaPo: Fact checker’s list of the biggest Pinocchios of 2017
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Going at the movies.
The Dotard Трамп and His Band of Predators, Thieves and Reality Stars:
How you can help Puerto Rico.
Young Turks: Robots hassling homeless people.
Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
Farron Cousins: Republican Congressman who mocked sick people as immoral announces he has cancer
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The Alabama of the solar system.
Sweet Home Alabama:
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The 12 Wars on Christmas.
Young Turks: The world’s creepiest Congressman resigns amid sexual harassment scandal.
Stephen: Tuck Buckford grills his CIA-Loving Google Home.
VOX: How the end of net neutrality could change the internet.
The G.O.P. Tax Scam on America:
Jokes Seth can’t tell: Starbucks’ gay agenda, the lowest point in U.S. history.
VOX: The diet that helps fight climate change
James Cordon breaks down an insane 2017.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I’ve got a bit of the yucks, so I think I will half sleep and hope I don’t miss my stop. As ever, I am the worst.
I was at the library the other day, so this is one of those posts.
There’s a remodel going on, and they’ve taken out the pay phones. I don’t want to write a post bemoaning progresses: It’s better that most people don’t need to use them. But! There is still a population that needs them.
Will you be singing Sweet Home Alabama? Or will Alabama Get Away? Either way this is the place to discuss tonight’s Yellowhammer special election. If it ain’t (broadly) about this election, take that crap to the previous open thread.
I’ll be (*ahem*) Mobile on my way to Roanoke Park Place Tavern, and may post random observations and whatnot as the spirit moves me.
Here’s one for the geeks among us:
Moore's Law: Political insanity doubles every 18 months.
— Bob Cohn (@1bobcohn) December 12, 2017
The needle moved! NYT extrapolating model changes from "tie" to "Jones 0.5" with 2% of precincts reporting…
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) December 13, 2017
Roy Moore's horse Sassy breaks her silence pic.twitter.com/tRWqp3fyLn
— JDCrowe2 (@Crowetoons) December 12, 2017
Tweenie girls LOVE ponies!
— Mordant FreedomVoter (@MordantFV) December 12, 2017
So far, Doug Jones is holding his own in rural Alabama. Still extremely early. #ALSEN
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 13, 2017
5:56: AP has Moore leading for the first time, 7% reporting….
6:02: I wish Washington election results would trickle in like this. This “one ballot dump a night” business sucks!
6:05: With 16% precincts reporting, Moore’s lead has shrunk to +2%.
6:10: Now 21% reporting, Moore’s lead is up to +5%
I pray Roy Moore loses, but I am grateful the campaign kept him too
busy to apply for a mall Santa job this year.— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) December 12, 2017
6:20: 33% in, Moore up by 5%.
6:26: Now 40% in and Moore is still up by 5%.
Half the votes are counted. Moore leads by four. But the needle is not impressed. pic.twitter.com/GxuBjP4AAo
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) December 13, 2017
6:33: Yep…with 50% of precincts reporting, Moore’s lead over Jones has shrunk to 3%. Remember, bigger and more urban precincts usually report later….
Fmr McConnell chief of staff who often says what McConnell can’t: Thanks, Bannon “for showing us how to lose the reddest state in the union.” https://t.co/67cOT6ltVb
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) December 13, 2017
6:40: Moore’s lead is back up +7% with 62% in.
6:57: Now 75% reporting and Moore’s lead has shrunk to +3% (51% to 48%).
7:03: Now 77% and Moore’s lead shrinks to +2%.
7:06: And at 81%, Jones is down by -1%.
7:09: And with 85%, Jones is almost even with Moore at 49% each. Jones is still down about 5,000 votes out of a million and some votes.
7:13: NYT still has Jones winning with a 73% probability by a margin of 2.1%
7:15: And as I typed that, the NYT “needle” jumped giving Jones a probability of 84% and a final 2.7% margin.
7:19: AP has 86% of precincts and Moore’s lead is about 500 votes.
7:22: Now we have 88% reporting and Jones is up by 8,000 votes. The NYT web site has Jones probability of winning >95%.
Blue tide.
— michaelscherer (@michaelscherer) December 13, 2017
FOX calls it for Jones🙌🙌🙌👋👍👍👍👍 #AlabamaSenateElection
— Artemis (@artemis1954) December 13, 2017
@nytimes & @AP calling Jones the winner! Not Fake News! Wheee!
— Dr. John Fulwiler (@Doorcow) December 13, 2017
7:37: I love the fact that Jones’ margin of victory is LESS THAN the number of write-in votes. In so many ways, this qualifies as a STRANGE election!
Huh. I guess God hates child molesters.
— Darryl Holman (@Hominid_Views) December 13, 2017
7:52: If you are an Alabamian, child molestation is worse than being a Democrat. VERY SLIGHTLY WORSE!
It’s not easy to go 0-2 in the same race with two different candidates but @realDonaldTrump just pulled that off. He has Bannon to thank for that 2nd loss
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) December 13, 2017
Join us this Tuesday evening for a Special Election edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Stop by and cheer your team. In one coner is a man accused of molesting children. In the other corner is a man accused of molesting the KKK church bombers.
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, but the polls close at 5pm, so some of us will be there early. We expect election returns to trickle in all evening.
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.
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