A new restaurant has opened near me. I can’t speak to the quality of the food. But! I can speak to the music. Too goddam loud on the weekend. I could not get to sleep. Should I talk to someone in there? Should I complain to the city? Should I just use ear plugs?
PS this post makes me officially old.
Please join us this evening for some politics over a pint, some civics over a cider, some campaigning with champagne, or some electioneering over…umm…Everclear? Whatever your taste in governing or guzzling, stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Look for us in the back room of the pub beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 265 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!
I’ve been under the weather for a bit.
Trevor: Big Pharma pays up for their part in the opioid crisis.
Samantha Bee: It’s time to cancel the Electoral College.
The Late Show: We’ve got your back-2-Congress supplies.
Bruce W. Nelson: A mangy fetlocks lullaby for tired adults.
Vox: The gun solution we’re not talking about.
Minute Physics: Protecting privacy with MATH.
The Dotard Трамп and Other Sharpies and Racist Dullards:
NY Times opinion: Why blaming video games for violence is wrong.
Samantha Bee: What’s up With Rudy Giuliani’s 9/11 tribute video?
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Hasan Minhaj testifies at student loans hearing.
Now This: New college student pep talk from Michelle Obama.
The Atlantic: How black Americans were robbed of their land.
Twenty-twenty Vision:
Roll Call: Congressional Hits and Misses.
Drunk History: The true story behind the legend of Billy the Kid.
Now This: Alarming map shows sea ice melting since 1984.
Jim Jefferies: Why we should all care about saving the tuna.
Robert Reich: The secret GOP plan to keep power.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Did you watch the debate? It seemed like Governor Inslee was given a more prominent role than when he was on stage. At least people praising him and his ideas for a bit. Nice to see before it fades.
It is the anniversary of 9/11. 18 years ago an unprepared President who hadn’t done the basic work of protecting America ran scared from place to place as thousands of people died in a city he hated. Then everyone pretended that he was brilliant.
It’s Tuesday. And that means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets. Stop by, if you can, and join the conversation.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Look for us in the back room of the pub beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 265 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!
I hope you enjoyed the storm. It was rather fun to watch, but it did delay the Reign FC game I was at for longer than we were able to wait. It seems like a good lightning storm is becoming more common in the Puget Sound area than it was when I was growing up. Maybe that’s perception, but I think of those sorts of storms as an East Coast phenomenon.
Trevor: Fires ravage the Amazon
WaPo: The boy Tucker has some issues with New York City and its mayor.
Jim Jefferies: Ancestry tests have a lot of issues.
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses, recess edition.
Full Frontal: Climate change.
The Dotard Трамп and Other Evil Meteorologists:
Daily Show: Obama’s Dijon burger—The worst scandal in presidential history!
Bill Maher: New Rule—The fudge report.
Jim Jefferies: The NFL’s serious brain damage problem.
Vox: The mysterious rays shooting at us from space.
Mark Fiore: The platitude primer.
Twenty-Twenty Vision:
Hasan MinhajThe Two Sides of Canada
Seth Meyers: Political monologue.
Jimmy Dore: Peter King defends cop who choked Eric Garner:
Vox: The chart that predicts recessions.
Daily Show: America endures another mass shooting.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Glad Howard Schultz is officially no longer running for President. I mean try not to help Donald Trump win reelection. A weird vanity campaign was never going to help.
I, for one, look forward to going to Starbucks occasionally, again. I was never going regularly, but if I’m thirsty, iit’s nice to have another option, who isn’t actively making a Trump second term more likely.
What the hell is happening in the UK? Several years of uncertainty post Brexit and now who knows? Snap election? Bills limiting how to leave? Two unpopular weirdos vying to be PM? I generally prefer the Parliamentary system to the US (and we’re having our own problems at the moment too) but geez.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. It’s pretty simple. We grab a drink and we chat about all things politics. Won’t you join us this evening?
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Look for us in the back room of the pub beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 265 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or start a new chapter for your community!
Sky News: America’s opioid crisis.
Jim Jefferies: The nuclear button.
Jonathan Mann: Bret Stephens is a bedbug:
Comedy Central: The story of Labor Day.
Ayman Mohyeldin: DOJ ruling reveals Comey did not break the law
The Dotard Трамп and Other Natural Disasters Worth Nuking:
Jim Jefferies: Porn preferences in the South.
Rachel Maddow: Трамп aims to open vital U.S. forest to logging, drilling, and mining
Now This: Kishi Bashi explores America today through Japanese internment.
Mark Fiore: Pharmagon—Your antidote to profit based killing.
The Atlantic: When a child wants to save the planet.
Weird History: How you could have survived the Black Plague.
Twenty-Twenty Vision:
Hasan Minhaj: The real cost of cruises.
Bruce W. Nelson: From my cold, dead hands.
Roll Call: Why do members of Congress have to gavel in and gavel out during recess?
Jim Jefferies and Rory Scovel: Russians keep getting mysteriously injured or killed.
News Broke: How the Handmaid’s Tale is the Christian right’s playbook:
Minute Physics: How to build a lava moat.
Fire and Rain:
Wendover: The US’ overseas military base strategy.
Vox: The mysterious rays shooting at us from space.
Today I Found Out: The first car and the incredible road trip that saved it from obscurity.
Chris Hayes: Remembering Barack Obama’s biggest scandal.
The Atlantic: Social-media companies threaten democracy.
Jim Jefferies: Death is Big Business.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
So, wolves. Maybe don’t get so upset about reintroduction of wolves that you threaten state workers trying to get input. Maybe don’t be such a dung brained jerk that you cause meetings to be canceled.
In conclusion: What the fuck? What the actual fuck?
Bob Ferguson is filing another lawsuit against another one of the Trump administration’s horrible policies. As the 9th Circuit gets more and more conservative, the side of the angels is going to be less likely to prevail. Still, the conditions of care for children in detention are abhorrent. I can’t believe we could make them worse.
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