I didn’t go to either of the tax day rallies over the weekend, although I respect them both. I don’t know, but release your returns guy who is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity doesn’t seem like a high priority. On the other hand, sure. If it matters enough to you to get out, I’m not going to tell you you’re doing it wrong.
That said, it seems like the Black Lives Matter one was more about tax fairness. In any event, it looks pretty amazing.
Romans 13:6-7
This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Discuss.
Daily Show: Texas students opt for “cocks, not Glocks”.
Mental Floss: 27 facts about clowns.
Young Turks: Cannabis church opens its doors in Colorado.
Sam Seder: Glenn Beck accidentally argues for universal health care.
Trouble in Трамп Town:
Daily Show: Smart technology.
Late Show: Alter-Egos, Vol. 2.
Tax advice from Daddy Don.
Young Turks: Tomi Lahren goes full-blown snowflake
Farron Cousins: Nut Job G.O.P Congressman who heckled Obama at the SOTU gets roasted at his own townhall.
NASA: Human activity at night.
Sad Bill-O-The-Clown:
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Why peregrine falcons are the fastest animals on earth.
Farron Cousins: Federal judge strikes down discriminatory TX voter ID law.
The algorithm that could end partisan Gerrymandering.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
A lot of people have taken this ridiculous Seattle Times editorial to task. But now a few days late, let me also make fun of some choice selections.
Meanwhile, Murray is transformed from the bold big-city mayor into one who defers to his defense lawyer when he is invited to speak to The Seattle Times editorial board about the biggest political scandal in Seattle in generations.
I think we can all agree: No matter if you think he did it, if you think a law firm run by bigots is setting him up, or if you’re not sure, the scandal is definitely that he won’t talk to the Seattle Times Ed Board. For decades, we’ll all remember where we were when we read about how Ed Murray isn’t meeting with the Seattle Times to discuss this and is instead deferring to his attorney in a legal matter. For me it was when I got to this paragraph the other day. For many of you, it’s right now.
Murray’s defenders cast the lawsuit and related allegations as well-timed political payback for his iconic career as a gay civil-rights champion. Indeed, there are legitimate questions about the law firm that filed the lawsuit. It is founded by a Tacoma attorney with an anti-gay rights record.
But Murray’s counterpunch begs a question: when is the right time to file a child sexual abuse lawsuit against an elected leader?
This is correct. The Seattle Times shouldn’t sit on the story, just because it’s happening at the beginning of an election year. But also, someone who knows what “begs the question” means* should probably be in the chain. Whatever. You’re here for me to make fun of the baby splitting if you’re here for anything (are you here for anything? Why?).
Murray at times has been that leader, and could still be. Regardless of whether the allegations are true, he cannot lead under this cloud. He should serve out his term and not run for re-election.
There are 2 possible situations. First possibility: He’s guilty of at least one of the charges; If that’s the case, saying he should serve out the rest of his term seems pretty gross. The other possibility is that he’s innocent of all charges; If that’s the case, being forced to not run for office by a bigoted law firm seems like a terrible thing. The Seattle Times’ solution, in other words, is a bad one no matter what you think happened.
It’s pretty rough that things have to get so bad at the Northwest Detention Center that a hunger strike is the way we know about the problems there. In a more just, more decent world people wouldn’t have to starve themselves so that we could know that they want expedited hearings and better food.
Honestly, the legislature spends more time trying to kill the goose that lays the golden egg in Seattle, today rescheduling the MVET voters just supported, than they do fixing their fucked up constituencies. Don’t those legislators have not paying for education to attend to? Don’t they have a lot of work not regulating so called crisis pregnancy centers? Don’t they have a cruel budget to pass? Leave Seattle the fuck alone until you get your own house in order.
Oh, and the MVET is somewhat regressive? Sure, although it has a fairly high exemption for PEOPLE WHO CAN’T AFFORD CARS PAY 0 DOLLARS. Also, give ST an income tax in exchange, and I think you’ll find a lot of the opposition goes away.
The people giving to the anti-trans people pooping in public bathrooms initiative sure are, um, colorful. No shitty. Sorry, I spelled shitty wrong that first time.
Tonight: Meet, eat, drink, think, debate, hydrate, brainstorm (free form), venerate and commiserate. Join us 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 other 228 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.
So Ed Murray maybe abused some children in the 1980’s? Obviously, fuck that guy if it’s true.
It’s tough to evaluate the claims and counter-claims. My first instinct is to believe people when they say they’ve been victims. And while I certainly don’t think the numbers game is really helpful (1 is enough), 3 people?
1 Timothy 5:11-15
As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry. Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge. Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to. So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.
Discuss.
How to convince racists to fight climate change.
Stephen: Political monologue
Bill Maher: A few of Republicans’ favorite things.
Late Night: Late night writers tackle sexual harassment
Трамп’s Tower of Tees and Corruption:
Mental Floss: Why did we stop going to the moon?
Bill Maher chats with Jose Antonio Vargas.
Full Frontal: You’re not helping with guns.
Bill Maher: New Rule, “What would a DICK do?”
Sam Seder: Will aide turn on Chris Christie over Bridgegate?
Bassem Youssef: How to hate right.
Supreme Nuke:
Roy Zimmerman: “Turn Off the Hubble” Anthem for the Republican War on Science:
Young Turks: O’Reilly’s show mysteriously ends early
Armchair Presidents: I do leather now.
Sam Seder: Maxine Waters calls FAUX News a “sexual harassment enterprise”.
Samantha Bee: We told you so—Russian hacking.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
So, I guess we’re at war now? Cool. Right? It’s super cool. I assume that our pro-Trump trolls will be too busy joining the military to defend those people who we’re killing and also wouldn’t let into the country.
I realize that you don’t have to take the same stance as the person you voted for on everything military related (I was protesting the Afghanistan war in 2001 and have been pretty consistently against drones, but somehow voted for people who were considerably more hawkish than me for pretty much every position ever). Still and all, if you voted for president “bomb the shit out of them” you maybe have more of an obligation to put your money where your mouth is.
I’m approximately the billionth person to mourn the hiatus of Capitol Hill Seattle. If there are 2 things they did well, it’s great hyper local news and paying their writers.
Here’s hoping for an eventual return.
Please join us this evening for some conversation over a drink 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 other 222 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.
It’s pretty amazing how unified we were as a society on Japanese Interment. Sure, if you’d sampled the Japanese population, you could get some very different results than the general population. And there were deserters among the general population. Individuals, and sometimes whole towns. Still, I was surprised to learn that there was only one newspaper paper that opposed the camps. I hope it’s a call for all of us to do better going forward.
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