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Smoke? We’re dealing with smoke? With ash. With damn masks. Is this our future as a region every summer?

After the holiday weekend you might just need a drink! Please join us on Tuesday for our weekly 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 238 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.

2 Kings 2:23-24

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

Discuss.

How climate change makes hurricanes worse

Why America still uses Fahrenheit.

Adam Ruins Everything corrects itself.

David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: What’s the Debt Ceiling?

Toddler-in-chief Трамп:

• Farron Cousins: Трамп Tweets nonsense as Texas drowns.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: President Donald Трамп’s Teleprompter speech trouble
• Keith Olbermann: Could Трамп try to pardon…everyone?
• Jonathan Mann: All I Want To Do Is Maga
• The President Show: Disaster relief:

• WaPo: Fact checking Трамп’s speech on tax reform.
• Keith Olbermann: What Трамп’s trip to Texas revealed
• David Pakman: Uh-Oh, Russian bragged about “getting Donald elected” with Putin’s help
• Trevor: Profiles in Tremendousness—Sheriff Joe Arpaio pardon edition
• Why fact checking can’t stop Трамп
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Potential bombshell in Paul Manafort notes on Donald Трамп Jr. meeting
• The President Show: The President is a great American
• Sam Seder with Digby: Трамп going to war with Mitch McConnell
• WaPo: The fight for control over the special counsel’s Russia investigation
• Keith Olbermann: For whom has Трамп made America great?
• WaPo: Inside the plan to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow
• Daily Show: Questions Sean Spicer never answered.
• Young Turks: Трамп pardoned Joe Arpaio during hurricane Harvey because ratings
• Comedians solve world problems: Donald Трамп
• Farron Cousins: Pardon Of Joe Arpaio proves Трамп is on the side of hate
• Trevor: Did team Трамп reveal their middle man to Moscow?
• Jonathan Mann: Buddy our boy can become President:

• Young Turks: After a tiny rally, Трамп needs to fire someone….
• Francesca Fiorentini: Трамп was right when he wanted less war in Afghanistan
• Stephen: Late Show’s alter egos III—Трамп World
• Fact Check: Is there a ‘surge’ in violent crime as Jeff Sessions claims?
• The President Show: Charm school for manners and diplomacy
• Daily Show: Confederate statues—Some see culture, some see racism
• Keith Olbermann: Would impeaching Трамп truly lead to civil war?
• WaPo: Трамп’s pardon of Arpaio is morally empty. And totally legal.
• David Pakman: Трамп pardons racist Sheriff Arpaio

Sam Seder: Hypocrisy is a term Republicans just can’t understand.

Mark Fiore: The Punch-a-Nazi-kit.

ONN: Silicon Valley CEO explains how the future of Tech is him being wealthy and having a blast.

Minute Physics: Myths and facts about superintelligent AI.

Stephen: Late Show’s alter egos IV—The Swamp

Jonathan Mann: The whole world is going crazy.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Any grand plans for Labor Day weekend? I don’t know when the switch from being excited about Bumbershoot to wanting to avoid the area happened. But it certainly has happened. I don’t know as many of the bands, but I know plenty. Just getting old.

Also, I will avoid the hell out of PAX.

What Michael says here. The Democratic Party needs to do a better job policing ourselves enabling rape culture. We fucked up big time in that instance. And it’s hardly a one -off.

This isn’t to say we’re as bad as or worse than the Republicans — they literally voted for a sexual assailant with a dozen known victims because he’s a sexual assailant. But we have to be a lot better.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets on Tuesday. Please join us for an evening of politics and conversation over a pint.

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 236 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.

When I unpacked after my vacation, I realized that I have 4 half-used travel size toothpaste tubes. I always buy a new one for my vacation. It feels wasteful, but I don’t want to run out on my trip. And I can’t really judge how much is left. So I think I ‘m going to just use them not on vacation.

Anyway, most Republicans hate you and want you to die for want of healthcare.

2 Samuel 17:29
Cheese.

Discuss.

Jim Jefferies: How to get a green card.

ONN: Cop explains how it feels to live in fear someone might record you brutalizing a civilian.

Jimmy Dore: Chris Christie threatens Jimmy’s family with violence.

Adam ruins college loans.

Трамп: Sociopath, Imbecile or Both?

• Keith Olbermann: Who’s backing away from Трамп? Everyone.
• Трамп’s plan to cut his own taxes.
• Trevor: The “many sides” of Трамп’s Phoenix rally
• Ari Melber: Rep Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-7), “Donald Трамп is a racist pardoning a racist”
• The President Show: Keeping it civil:

• Sam Seder: Трамп threatens to shut down government if he doesn’t get his fucking wall
• Young Turks: Трамп says he’ll shut down the government if he doesn’t get his fucking wall.
• The President Show:The President goes to the land of fake-believe
• Rachael Maddow: Pattern of hacking preceded attendee of Donald Трамп’s camp Russia meeting
• James Clapper criticized President Трамп
• Conan: knows who really wrote President Трамп’s Afghanistan speech
• Farron Cousins: Трамп turns Phoenix speech into unhinged rant filled with lies
• Sam Seder: CNN’s “Four weeks in Трамп’s presidency” list unites us all in our exhaustion
• Трамп hits 1,000 false or misleading claims. Here they are.
• Young Turks: Трамп’s message to hurricane victims, “Good luck.”
• Jonathan Mann: The idiot looked at the sun.
• Fact Check: Would the U.S. “save a lot of money” in embassy downsizing in Russia?
• Lawrence O’Donnell calls out Donald Трамп’s Charlottesville lie at Arizona rally
• Francesca Fiorentini: Трамп like nukes go boom
• Trevor: Making sense of Трамп’s Afghanistan war strategy
• Farron Cousins: In Трамп’s warped mind, everything is someone else’s fault
• Keith Olbermann: The Трамп resignation end-game?
• Conan knows how to quiet down Трамп.
• Politicians question Трамп’s “moral authority” in wake of Charlottesville
• PsychoSuperMom: Thank God Трамп’s so inept!:

• Comparing Трамп’s speaking styles: On script vs. off the cuff.
• Ivanka Трамп as a Lana Del Rey Song
• Trevor: Serious Трамп vs. somber Трамп vs. freestyle Трамп
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Donald Трамп “embarrassed” over border wall.
• The President Show: Nice! Not nice! Obsessing over Hillary Clinton
• Young Turks: Mass resignations plague Трамп administration
• The GOP grapples with response to Трамп

We need to change how we bury the dead.

John Oliver: Nuclear waste.

What’s wrong with the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet?

David Pakman: Voter fraud isn’t a problem. Voter suppression is:

Young Turks: James Comey has a new job.

Daily Show: Introducing The Opposition with Jordan Klepper.

Nazi’s, Racists, and Other Assholes:

• Daily Show: The “Master race” needs to play it cool
• Sam Seder: This guy says he has to quit college after marching in Unite the Right rally
• Vox: This timeline shows confederate monuments are about racial conflict
• ONN: How the alt-right recruits new members.
• Conan: Introducing Aryan Mingle
• Sam Seder: Don Lemon to Republican guest, “What you’re describing now is racism”
• Mark Fiore: The American Museum of racist assholes
• Family recalls finding KKK burning cross in front of house.
• Richard Fowler gives a history lesson on racism in America
• What you need to know about former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio
• Sam Seder: Gorka’s PhD adviser DEMOLISHES “terrorism expert” claims

Here is how a congressman gets caught by the FBI.

Four views of the solar eclipse.

David Alan Grier: How to tell if something is a protest or a riot.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

I am a rather slow reader. As such, I’m usually pretty quick to give up on a book that I don’t dig. Recently, a friend recommended a book that has taken me a week to read 2 chapters. So at what point do I bail without being an asshole?

I think I’m going to use my Democracy Vouchers this week. The problem is that the only competitive race is the one I care the least about. I’d be happy with either 8th District candidate. I don’t know, would it be strange to give one each to Grant and Mosqueda? Probably. Will I do it? Leaning toward it.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening. Please join us for an evening of politics and conversation over a pint.

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 236 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.

People keep wondering how far Trump will have to go before his supporters have had enough. And I think the answer is never. Trump’s supporters support him because he’s a violent criminal who supports other violent criminals. Of course racism is part of it. But they also support him because he assaults women. So there is no too racist, too violent, too criminal.

Judges 10:4
He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys.

Discuss.