I have started reading Hillary Clinton’s book. I was ready for the yuck of the loss. I was prepared for it to be a good read. I was not expecting how funny it is.
I’m only a couple chapters in, and I have had half a dozen belly laughs. The epigraph for Chapter 1 sets the tone perfectly. It has been a while, but I don’t remember her other books being this funny.
Luke 19:27
Now bring me the enemies who didn’t want me to be their king. Kill them while I watch!”
Discuss.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The war on men—Resisting the evil Estrogenda
Stephen: Raw water.
Sam Seder: Project Veritas’ lame surprise! Twitter expose.
Jimmy Kimmel: Government shutdown and funding CHIP
CAFE: California is experiencing a deadly flu epidemic.
VOX: How rats take advantage of human failure
Dotard Трамп, A.K.A. President Shithole Shithouse, and His Band of Con Men and Thieves:
Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
VOX: The chocolate science hype machine.
Samantha Bee: #MeToo backlash.
Mark Fiore: Algorithm News.
WaPo: Short-term spending bill fails in the Senate
White noise sleep machine: How racists sleep at night.
On Wisconsin and Midterm Elections:
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Raging out to cable news
The Women’s March on Washington one year later.
Stephen: Don’t fire the Hawaiian who hit the emergency alert.
VOX: How faster computers gave us Meltdown and Spectre.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
So much, is happening, y’all.
Washington state has a capital construction budget.
The second year of the Women’s March.
It’s looking pretty likely that there will be a government shutdown.
I realized that I haven’t watched a playoff game this football season, and it’s great. I have 2 teams that I root for, and neither made the playoffs.
So now there isn’t a chunk taken out of the weekend. I don’t have to watch interminable replays. I don’t have to see injury after injury.
Join us this Tuesday evening for another adventure in politics and drinks 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 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.
Genesis 6:6-7
The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Discuss.
New Scientist: How climate change can bring cold snaps.
VOX: How the US failed to rebuild Afghanistan.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: An even “specialer” prosecutor to stop Robert Mueller
Young Turks: Republican Governor tied woman up in his basement.
Samantha Bee: No one questions her dishonesty.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
President Shithole Dotard Трамп And His Band of Treasonous, Lying Whiners Stable Geniuses:
Daily Show: The price of social change—Why California is paying gun offenders.
Minute Physics: How we know black holes exist.
VOX: The new US tax law, explained with cereal.
Sam Seder: Kansas lawmaker stupidly claims blacks abuse pot because it’s “in their character”
Full Frontal: Road to 2018—Stacey Abrams
The FISA bill in 60 seconds.
President Oprah:
VOX: The real reason Amelia Earhart is so famous.
Francesca Fiorentini: The powerful will erase you in 2020:
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: A crash course in Breitbart’s conspiracy journalism, Pt. 1
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: A crash course in Breitbart’s conspiracy journalism, Pt. 1
Samantha Bee: No country for pregnant women.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
There once was a jackass half-wit troll
Who was never even a bit droll.
Despite hands as small as a mouse,
He got to the Whitehouse
And declared much of the world was a “shithole”
I didn’t mention the carbon tax when I did the what I’d like to see from the legislature post. But sure, sign us up for that too. Our future has to be one where we don’t keep pumping out global warming gases. The sooner we start, the sooner we get there.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets Tuesday night for another evening of political analysis over a drink. Stop by and share what’s on your mind.
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.
The legislative session starts today. Are you excited? Now that it’s controlled by Democrats, what do y’all want them to do?
It seems to me that the top priority will be to finnnnnnnnaly fund education properly. Preferably with as progressive a tax as possible.
I would also like to have some version of the reproductive parity act.
And, I know I said this last year, but I would like to try to build a space elevator somewhere in Eastern or Central Washington.
Finally, I want them to resist Trump. Maybe make it tougher to deport Washington residents. Maybe fund the AG’s office more.
Deuteronomy 28:53
And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
Discuss.
The rise of “the new nationalism” in 2017
WA AG’s lawsuit against Motel 6, explained
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper Making football great again:
The end of the H1B visa could send skilled workers elsewhere.
The Chaotic and Criminal White House of Dotard Трамп:
Joy Reid: Turns out Roy Moore’s Jewish lawyer is Christian
Francesca Fiorentini: The rich want to keep you dumb:
Young Turks: Alex Jones declares holy war on CNN journalist
Minute Physics: The unreasonable efficiency of black holes.
WaPo: Six things you may not have known about the NSA.
Pot Topics:
New Scientist: There is a new bitcoin scam everyday.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper Big Publishing’s attack on Milo Yiannopoulos
Sam Seder: Leaked editor’s notes hilariously TRASH Milo Yiannopoulos’ Book.
David Pakman: Michele Bachmann is asking God if she should run for senate
Young Turks: Uh-oh, God’stalking to Michele Bachmann again…
VOX: Takeout creates a lot of trash. It doesn’t have to..
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
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.
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