Another Rainier cherry post.
Washington state cherries are in! So good. So still not good for me how many I’ve eaten.
Also: I was walking up some stairs and there was a cherry tree with dozens of Rainiers on it. It was on public property, so could I have taken some? I have taken black berries from public rights of way many times, but cherries seem different.
Another reminder: Please don’t shoot anyone.
Please join us this evening for some chat (*ahem*) Sessions over a drink at this weeks episode of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Stop by and offer your two percent (on income above $250,000 if you file as single or $500,000 if filing jointly).
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 other 234 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 late does drunk singing on the bus become OK? If you want to say never, that’s probably correct. But I was on a late night bus over the weekend, and a drunk couple were singing their hearts out to a song I didn’t recognize. It was more charming than obnoxious. But if that had been rush hour on a Tuesday, it would have been horrible. Maybe it’s more of a continuum, slowly becoming less bad as the night progresses, than a switch.
Ezekiel 23:8
She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.
Discuss.
Three congressional special elections to watch this year.
Mental Floss: 39 facts about poets.
#ComeyDay:
Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought.
Jordan Klepper solves guns with Sen. Cory Booker.
Трамп is Russian for “Corrupt as Fuck”:
David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: How appropriations is supposed to work.
Seth Meyers: Political monologue.
Ossoff slams Handle on Трампcare.
Full Frontal: Just say no to drug test kits.
Climate Catastrophe:
VOX: What happens when you treat health care like a soap opera.
Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
(I promise I’ll get back to politics at some point, but here’s more inane nonsense)
I was walking through the park and a man walking the other way started talking to me. Now I’m wearing headphones because I have something I’d rather do than talk to some stranger. Also, It’s Seattle, and we have a culture of keeping to ourselves, that I appreciate. But fine. I took my headphones off and started listening to him.
“You have long hair.”
I was aware. It wasn’t cool hair or cut your hair, hippie. Just a statement of fact that he knew that I knew.
I walked by a building the on the way to Drinking Liberally, and I noticed that the name of it was written in cursive. People aren’t being taught cursive in a lot of schools. It’s a decision I generally support, so this isn’t a getoffmylawn post.
I wonder how long until most people find that building indecipherable. It’ll probably get painted over long before that. It made me wonder what I walk by that I don’t notice that everyone would have understood 50, 100 whatever years ago.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally was founded in early 2005, and has been meeting weekly ever since. Please join us tonight for a drink, some political conversation and, if you wish, some dinner.
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 other 231 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.
There is a crow’s nest in the tree across from my apartment. They must have just had a chick, because they’re aggressively dive-bombing people. Over the weekend, I saw that avian asshole attack 2 people so much that they ran away. Fortunately, they haven’t gone after me yet. But others have. I feel like they’re more aggressive than usual this year, but I don’t know.
Numbers 22:29
Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.”
Discuss.
Jimmy Dore chats with Bill-O-The-Clown about Roger Ailes.
Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Sam Seder: The grotesque Трампcare graph Paul Ryan doesn’t want you to see.
Traveler Трамп and Company:
VOX: How the media’s weapons fetish primes us for war.
How to eat pudding in space.
Samantha Bee: Gianforte body-slammed the vote.
Sam Seder: Dipshit Rick Santorum (debating Jennifer Granholm) says the Sun is “not reliable, not consistent”.
Warming Globe:
Samantha Bee: An interview with Al Franken.
Bill Maher: New Rule—get low.
Young Turks: Remember when Ted Nugent threatened Obama?
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I’ve been trying to cut down on my time on the Internet. Not a complete shut down, but just not faffing around. Anyway. Turns out that I am once again writing some nonsense from the bus rather than having written anything in advance. Sorry, but it might be better for me.
Look, we all agree that Alaska Rep. David Eastman is the wooooorst. Fuck that guy. What an ass.
But! Maybe Seattle’s tourism industry should embrace it. A city so great you’ll have a dangerous second trimester pregnancy terminated just for a visit.
Please join us this evening as we make up and discuss fake news for submission to the national media fake news feed at this week’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 other 230 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.
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