I remember a conversation I had after the consent decree in Seattle. A friend of mine couldn’t understand why SPD needed it. They said something like “there are so many big city police departments that are so much worse.” I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is, it speaks poorly of policing in general in this country.
If Charleena Lyles couldn’t rely on the supposedly not so bad SPD, who she called, there really has to be fundamental reform of all police.
The 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 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.
Seattle has a lot of neat little parks. I was in one just North of Northgate Mall over the weekend. It had a bunch of exercise equipment. What a hoot. I used them all in my street clothes.
Genesis 9:20-25
Noah farmed the land and was the first to plant a vineyard. One day he got drunk and was lying naked in his tent. Ham entered the tent and saw him naked, then went back outside and told his brothers. Shem and Japheth put a robe over their shoulders and walked backwards into the tent. Without looking at their father, they placed it over his body.When Noah woke up and learned what his youngest son had done, he said, “I now put a curse on Canaan! He will be the lowest slave of his brothers.”
Discuss.
Mark Fiore: Meanwhile, besides Russia.
Finally they’ve made a “Handmaid’s Tail” for men.
Trevor: What’s in the mysterious GOP healthcare bill?
Samantha Bee: Great moments in congressional hallway history.
WaPo: Oregon becomes first state to offer “not specified” gender option on ID cards.
James Corden: We have a new name for FAUX and Friends, too.
The “Dear Leader Трамп” Sessions:
ONN: Why are there so few female directors?
Samantha Bee: The Rikers debaters:
Minute Physics: Quantum shape-shifting—Neutrino oscillations and footnote.
David Pakman: Five officials face manslaughter charges in Michigan.
Stephen: FAUX News is dropping their “Fair and Balanced” slogan.
Trevor: Another Uber sexist steps down.
Guns, Congress, and Sports:
John Oliver: Brexit II.
New Scientist: Pandas are feeling the heat.
13 men are deciding healthcare.
David Pakman: Breitbart loses 90 percent of its advertisers.
Jimmy Dore chat with Bernie Sanders about why he flaps his arms.
Samantha Bee: Child brides.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
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.
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