Oh right, I post open threads here sometimes. Anyway!
Over Christmas break, I listened to the Pitchfork Economics episode about trickle down economics, and how it’s the conventional wisdom. It made me think about the great chain of being. We can look back and see how silly it was. But if you were living in a time when it was professed by everyone around you, and presumed to be from God, it’s easy to understand why people kept using it as a way to understand the world.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight to contemplate the possibilities and promise of 2019. Please join us and start out the new year left!
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!
Daily Show: The year in outrage.
Young Turks: Jerks of the Year.
The Year in Review: Humanitarian crises around the world.
Craig Melvin and Jane Timm: Fact checking The Dotard Трамп’s most sweeping claims of 2018.
Vox: 2018, in 5 minutes.
Young Turks: Turks of the Year.
The Daily Show’s Michael Kosta: Top Michaels of 2018.
Hallie Jackson: Swamp watch—Looking at the year’s biggest DC scandals.
Young Turks: The worst part of 2018.
Goldy and Friends: What is the trick in trickle down?
Wired: Biobots—Snakebot, batbot, and more robots inspired by nature.
Wendover: Cities at sea—How aircraft carriers work.
Drunk History: A surprising Christmas story—Washington crossing the Delaware .
Robert Reich: Ten steps to save American democracy:
Ari Melber: Pelosi exposes the secret holding back women in Congress.
Farron Cousins: Job growth SOARS after minimum wage increases.
Aliens under the ice: Life on rogue planets.
Roy Wood, Jr: CP Time—2018 Episodes.
The Dotard Трамп And Other Clowns of Chaos:
The Daily Show: The White People Whisperer—Dr. David Campt’s guide to avoiding holiday disasters.
Steve Kornacki: State Election Board dissolves before certifying NC-9 race.
The Atlantic: The adrenaline rush of herding reindeer.
Pitchfork Economics: How Republicans sold their trickle-down tax cuts as a great deal for the middle class.
BuzzFeed: A surgeon reviews gun violence in PG-13 movies.
Phosphorescent: This Land is Your Land:
Young Turks: “Deportation bus guy” goes to jail.
Vox: Why monks have that hair cut.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
The Late Show: The Oregon Trail on mushrooms.
The Atlantic: Inside a historic win on election day 2018.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship
Robert Reich: How to hold corporations accountable.
Vox: Why Colombia is losing the cocaine war.
I.C.E.-y Walls:
Adam ruins frequent flyer miles.
GQ: The tattoo artist who covers racist tattoos.
Chris Hayes: Paul Ryan and the GOP’s hypocrisy on the debt and deficit
Minute Physics: Hardy’s paradox and the quantum double double slit experiment.
Wired: How Boston Dynamics’ robots became internet favorites.
Vox: Why “Buy one, get one free” isn’t a great deal.
The Daily Show looks back at 2018.
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
The Dotard Трамп and His Band of Putin Toys:
Jimmy Kimmel: This year in unnecessary censorship.
The Atlantic: We should be “screaming mad” about Amazon’s “corporate welfare”.
Mental Floss: Everything you need to know about the holidays.
Vox: The World War II battle against STDs.
Stephen: Tucker Carlson’s new target is gingerbread people.
Dulcé Sloan: How to handle your news rage.
The New Yorker: Inside the forges of New York City’s bladesmiths.
John Oliver: Brexit update.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
What a creep. Senator Ranker should stop being such a creep. Don’t be a creep, you creepy creep. I hope that the investigation is thorough. I hope that we as citizens get the full picture. And that he’s punished appropriately. But for now, we know that he is a creep.
I took the Sounder train for the first time, even though I have lived in the region since before there was a Sound Transit. I suppose it’s different for people on a packed train, but Tacoma to Seattle was rather pleasant in the afternoon, even with a delay. I don’t really know how much of my car tabs went to it over the years, but I am glad that it was there.
These days, the air is filled with the smell of conspiracy and the stench of corruption. Add ‘er all up, the nose sure brings out the craziness! The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight to ponder the political mystery and intrigue of our crazy times…all over a drink, of course.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!
Sometimes when a predator gets metooed, certain segments of the Internet lament the loss of art from those assholes. Oh no, what will we do without another season of Louie, or with a Kevin Spacey free House Of Cards?????!? Obviously that is pretty gross.
But man, keeping those fuckers around is losing a lot of great art. If you make the argument you are also OK losing art from the harrassed people. I mean Cybill Shepherd. Cybill Goddmn Shepherd.
Even if you ignore that it’s gross, siding with predators isn’t a fair trade art for art.
Full Frontal: This American trash—Voter suppression in Georgia.
Stephen chats with Joaquin and Julián Castro.
Tiny Fingers Resistance: White “Power”:
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
Vox: Why advertisers are tracking your emojis
The Dotard Трамп and His Various Criminal Organizations:
Jim Jefferies: Examining Holland’s extremely racist Christmas character, “Black Pete”.
Knowing Better: Buying happiness
Nick Hanauer and Goldy: Why do we call it “pitchfork economics”
WaPo: Tracing the trail of anti-Soros content at Radio and Television Martí (I’m looking forward to my big-ass Soros paycheck for this one).
Samantha Bee: Democracy—A retrospective:
Wired: How to create a crossword puzzle.
Late Show: Pop Quiz with Joaquin and Julián Castro.
Tragedy On the Border:
The Late Show: Frosty The Snowman doubts climate change.
Adam ruins cool technology.
Vox: What we get wrong about affirmative action
Jimmy Dore: Jeb Bush’s weird reaction to his dad’s death.
Roll Call: More Congressional hits and misses.
Full Frontal: Frost Bee the Snow Woman.
The Threeway—GOP, NRA and Russia:
Robert Reich: The truth about privatization
Daily Show: Switzerland—So many guns, no mass shootings.
Vox: How the Saudis ended up with so many American weapons.
WaPo: “Truth isn’t truth”—Rudy Giuliani tops 2018’s quotes of the year list
Mark Fiore: Undo-ocracy.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I was listening to a podcast set in medieval France, and it quoted one of the sources saying that donkeys would fly before a siege was lifted. I don’t remember having heard of any land animals other than pigs flying. I took French in high school, and I don’t remember that coming up. Is there a zoo of flying animals in other languages?
Is Lisa Brown running for Congress again? I only see her on Twitter. So maybe I am missing something. Still, her Tweets are very much against McMorris Rodgers. I don’t know the district well enough to know if there’s someone else who might run next time, but I like Lisa.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of political conversation over drinks and dinner.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 260 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, eight in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or you might consider starting your own chapter!
Right now Twitter is all atwitter about a typo in a tweet of President Trump’s. I think it’s definitely one I could make, so I have refrained from joining the pile up.
I mean it has only been a few days since the whole Individual-1 thing. So much crime. So, so much.
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