Just a reminder that the Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally meets again tonight (and every Tuesday,) 8PM, at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. I can’t make it tonight, but I’ll pop open a PBR at home in a show of solidarity.
Also, The Olympian will be holding a live chat with WA Speaker of the House Frank Chopp, tomorrow at noon. If you have a question for Frank, you can submit it here.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg guest hosts the Jimmy Kimmel Show.
Now This: Here’s why this Seattle millionaire CEO wants to be taxed more.
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week (sans coronavirus content!).
We’re All Gonna DIE!
Vice News: This woman survived a mass shooting and is working to prevent the next one.
John Oliver: Sheriffs.
The Dotard Трамп and Other Life-long Scam Artists:
Now This: Here is what the world would look like with no oceans.
The Atlantic: The world without giraffes
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Twenty-Twenty Vision:
Vox: How San Francisco erased a neighborhood.
Samantha Bee: America’s gig-based economy gets zero stars.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Highlights of the Loretta Lynch’s confirmation hearing.
Thom: The real deficit that the GOP doesn’t talk about.
Mental Floss: 17 crazy hair myths.
White House: Precision medicine:
Maddow with a nice Fox story.
Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.
David Pakman: Obama has reduced Bushes’ $1.4 trillion deficit by 75%.
$889 Million:
Thom: The Right’s home schooling conspiracy.
David Pakman: ObamaCare will cost 20% less than was originally projected:
Mark Fiore: King Abdullah, Royal pain.
Mental Floss: 24 cheese name origins.
Thom: More Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.
On the Road to 2016:
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.
Richard Muller: I was wrong on climate change.
David Pakman: DUI State Senator claims he can drive drunk and be privileged from arrest.
New Territory in the Republican War on Women™:
Thom: GOP turns Medicaid expansion over to banksters.
David Pakman: Thanks to Republicans, Obama’s approval keeps increasing.
White House: West Wing Week.
Super What???
Maddow: Five U.S.Pipelines Rupture in January.
Thom: Even more Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.
Matt Binder: Politifact finds FAUX News lies more than ever:
Grandpa McCain to protesters: “Get outta here you low life scum”.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Tricked you with the headline, didn’t I? No, it’s not the hippie-bearded Darryl Holman I was talking about, but actress (and activist) Darryl Hannah who joined us at the Living Liberally event upstairs at the “Big Tent,” the blogger facility a few blocks from the Pepsi Center.
Yeah, that’s right, I could be blogging about tonight’s program at the convention, but instead I’m drinking a beer, watching a couple of standup comics. Deal with it.
I was listening to some music, when iTunes automatically played the next file in the cue: an old episode of Podcasting Liberally from June 6, 2006, with me, Molly, Will, Carl, Ed Murray, Dan Savage and Eli Sanders. It was kinda a blast, and I especially enjoyed listening to us make our presidential predictions. (Hey Will… how’d Mark Warner work out for you?) Feeling nostalgic? Tune in and enjoy the fun:
[audio:http://horsesass.org/wp-content/uploads/drinking-liberally-june-6-2006.mp3][FYI, I believe this was recorded the day before 710-KIRO offered me my show.]
Wrestling greats Ron “King County Executive” Sims and Rev. Ken “the Jews killed Christ” Hutcherson lock horns tonight in a steel cage match at the Key Arena. Um… okay… it’s really just a debate, and it’s taking place in the staid environs of Seattle’s Town Hall. But I expect some rhetorical body slamming nonetheless.
Tickets are $5.00 at the door; fireworks start at 7:30 pm.
Rev. Hutcherson has been one of the most vocal opponents of legislation extending anti-discrimination protections to gays and lesbians, and when Sims joined us this week on Podcasting Liberally, we asked him why he was willing to take on such a pompous, blowhard. Lamenting Hutcherson’s efforts to co-opt a civil rights movement that “people lost their lives over,” Sims said that it was simply time for him to sit across the table and take Hutcherson on:
“He’s trying to steal a movement and limit its effects, and that’s just so wrong.”
Yes it is.
Hutcherson reportedly has a habit of playing the race card when he finds himself on the losing end of an argument, but as Will shockingly learned during our podcast, he’s going to have a tough time doing that against Sims:
“He’s going to argue he’s black, and last time I looked in the mirror, I am too.”
Here’s my debating tip to Sims: you’re first question to Hutcherson should be to ask him how his boycott is going, and then as he fumbles for an answer… hit him over the head with a folding chair. I’m ready to rumble!
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