Please join us for drinks and conversation at this week’s meeting of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

https://youtu.be/sRHVIcesOH4

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Long Beach, Tri-Cities and West Seattle chapters also meet tonight. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

There are 191 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

James Rustad: “I am Governor LePage”.

Helpful Dos and Don’ts for police officers

The 2016 Clown Parade:

• John Huntsman who won’t run for President (and why).
• Sam Seder: Ted Cruz wants everyone to know he’s still a hater (opposes equality).
• David Pakman: Ted Cruz says more crazy, ill-informed shit that seems to further disqualify him to be President
• Bush adviser says Jeb supports de-funding Planned Parenthood
• Sam Seder: Stand with Rand? Paul flip-flops on drones.
• Sam Seder: Rand Paul’s idiotic statement about Baltimore.

David Pakman: Where’s my apocalypse? Economic collapses are not happening in cities that raise minimum wage

Pap: Mitch McConnell wants to nullify the Constitution.

Forgotten assholes of history: The Brit who invented the Concentration Camp:

Sam Seder: FAUX News blames Obama for young people “trying” to join ISIS.

Baltimore Burning:

• Jon: CNN covers red carpet over Baltimore
• Sen. Reid on Baltimore
• Thom: Clueless white privilege meets the Baltimore revolt
• Young Turks: Why does the media use the word “thug”?
• David Pakman: You expect us to believe that Freddie Gray severed his own spinal cord?!?
• Richard Fowler: The death of Freddie Gray
• Young Turks: One idiotic Republican’s “theory” about what caused the riots
• Obama makes a statement on Baltimore

• David Pakman: The NRA is already lying about Baltimore
• Young Turks: How Freddie Gray died
• Jon explains everything wrong in Baltimore
• Pap: Poor police training is killing Americans
• Young Turks: Protests erupt at Freddie Gray’s funeral.
• David Pakman: Right wing’s Baltimore violence blame game

Sam Seder: Michele Bachmann is grateful Obama is bringing about “End times”.

David Pakman: Right-Wing lie that Obama is creating mostly low wage jobs is DEBUNKED.

The Daily Show: Getting Congress to “Fucking Cooperate”.

Same Sex Hypocrisy:

• Sam Seder: Anti-gay Republican discovered on Grindr.
• David Pakman: Surprise. Anti-gay Republican caught sending nude pics on Grinder.

Mental Floss: 25 towns that changed their name.

Nepal: Before and After.

White House: The Obama state china service.

Correspondents Dinner:

• Young Turks: Obama mocks critics and himself
• Cecily Strong does the White House correspondents’ dinner.
• Kids react to the WH Correspondence dinner
• Young Turks: Controversy over Obama’s “Anger Translator”.
• Obama’s socialist & birfer jokes come up every year
• Best WH Correspondence jokes of all time

David Pakman: Anti-Clinton author admits he has no evidence of wrongdoing.

Rep. Pelosi on the GOP bill to allow employers to control reproductive freedoms in D.C..

Mark Fiore: Commander-in-Drone.

Corruption is Legal in America:

James Rustad: “DEA Sex Party Song”.

Same Sex Marriage:

• David Pakman: Oregon’s anti-gay baker’s fundraising blocked…and they blame “Satan”
• Jon destroys anti-gay marriage arguments.
• David Pakman: Supreme Court divided on gay marriage as protester gets thrown out
• José Díaz-Balart: Same-sex couples await SCOTUS marriage ruling.
• WaPo: The gay marriage debate at the Supreme Court, explained
• Liberal Viewer: Same-sex marriage before SCOTUS

Mental Floss: Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and the Very, Very, Petulcously Ugly!

Dancing dots show Congressional divide.

IAF: 10 facts about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Bernie Sanders declares:

• Sam Seder: Bernie is IN.
• David Pakman: Bernie Sanders is running
• Ed interviews Bernie

Greenman: Mike Mann on “hide the decline”.

Maddow: America’s new views on criminal justice.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Today is Election Day in King county. So get that ballot filled out and in the mail, and then join us for an election day debriefing and a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Maddow: Mainstream Media sucks up anti-Clinton book by right wing author liar.

Tim Simons prepares for the White House correspondences’ dinner.

White House: West Wing Week.

Why frats aren’t that bad:

MinutePhysics: How big is the sun?

Dickipedia: Mitch McConnell is a dick.

President Obama and Bill Nye talk Earth Day in the Everglades.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Matroclinously Ugly.

The 2016 Clown Procession:

• Sam Seder: Marco Rubio’s unique homophobia
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz attacks John McCain, then apologizes.
• David Pakman: Uh-oh…Jeb Bush funneled $2 billion to George W. Bush’s big donors
• Sam Seder: Scott Walker is now bashing all immigrants
• Seth Meyers on candidate’s attempts at relatability
• David Pakman: Scott Walker attended a gay wedding reception, but won’t go to a gay wedding
• Sam Seder: Mike Huckabee’s ammosexual fantasies.
• David Pakman: Craziest GOP lineup ever as Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina Launch Presidential campaigns
• Chris Hayes and Dan Savage: Anti-gay GOPers and weddings.
• Jon: GOP anti-gay bigots and gay weddings
• David Pakman: Who will be the first Republican to drop out of the campaign
• Maddow: Campaign cash becomes early differentiator between parties for 2016
• Young Turks: Bobby Jindal refuses to give in to “gay marriage bullies”
• Sam Seder: Rand Paul isn’t sexist! We’re the “real sexists”!
• David Pakman: Corruption alert…Chris Christie privatizes water

Joe Biden and Blondie sing about naked men.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Tropophilously Ugly.

WaPo: No…same sex marriage will not cause 900,000 abortions.

Glacier National Park’s glaciers are disappearing:

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about Caffeine.

Mark Fiore: Death & Destruction, Inc..

Michael Brooks: Bill-O-the-Clown’s War on White Men™.

The week in Congressional Hits and Misses.

SlateTV: A mystery on Ceres.

On Drugs:

• Sam Seder: FAUX News celebrates 4/20 by scaring viewers about “more dangerous” types of pot
• Thom: Why 4/20 is celebrated
• Jon: 420 and Chris Christie.
• Thom: The “War on Drugs” is a war on America

Young Turks: Comcast–Time Warner deal is over.

Sam Seder: You’ll never believe who is now in on the climate change conspiracy.

Jon asks Neil deGrasse Tyson an important question.

Thom: Corporations to America, “We own you”.

Mental Floss: 101 amazing facts.

SlateTV: Leaked 2016 campaign ad.

John Oliver: Patents:

Eighty-year-old Seattle man returns to Boston to run the marathon.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, the Bad and the Very Very Matelassely Ugly.

Jon announces his last episode hosting The Daily Show.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Please join us for an “Earth Day Eve” edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Shelton chapters also meet. On Wednesday, the Bellingham, Burien, and Spokane chapters meet. And the Woodinville and Kent chapters meet on Thursday.

There are 191 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Lawrence O’Donnell: Who smoked pot in the White House, and other tales from Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sam Seder: A Republican story of self-hate and projection.

Bill Maher: Zombie lies of science-denying Republicans:

Vsauce: When will be run out of names?

The 2016 Clown Car:

• Mark Fiore: Candidate Kit.
• Young Turks: Chris Christie wants to destroy senior benefits Americans want
• A delusional Chris Christie thinks he can beat Hillary
• Factivist: Meet Marco Rubio
• Sam Seder: Marco Rubio enters the clown parade.
• David Pakman: Rubio’s first candidate interview is a disaster.
• Maddow: Rubio running…without a net
• James Rustad: The Marco Rubio “Bottled Water” song
• Sam Seder: Megyn Kelly reprimands Rand Paul like he’s a whiney child
• David Pakman: Rand Paul ridiculous on “freedom” and gay marriage
• Sam Seder: Rand Paul’s women problem
• Factivist: Meet Rand Paul.
• Sam Seder: Is Rand anything at all like his father Ron?
• David Pakman: Rand Paul “supporters” are actually German stock photos
• Sam Seder: Ted Cruz warns about the coming Gay Jihad
• David Pakman: Rick Santorum brags about being a bigot.
• Sam Seder: Ben Carson’s gaffe-filled trip to Israel
• Maddow: Big money in presidential politics.
• Chris Hayes: The billionaires that own Rubio and Cruz.

Climate Change Denial Disorder.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.

Thom: The origins and true face of American Libertarianism.

Slate: Where does lightening strike?

Hillary Announces:

• David Pakman: Hillary Clinton is the most qualified person to run for President
• Jon: Republicans respond to the Hillary announcement
• James Rustad: “Wish they could all be like Hillary”
• What’s Trending: Hillary Clinton releases “Getting Started” campaign ad
• Thom: Will sexism trump racism in America?
• Chris Hayes: “Hillary Clinton for Millennials (A Guide to All the Ridiculous Garbage She has Had to Put Up With Over the Years)”
• PsychoSuperMom: Hill-ary!:

• Young Turks: The Clinton Chipotle conspiracy.
• Jon: The Burrito freak-out
• Hillary Clinton’s Chipotle order.
• José Díaz-Balart: About that couple in the Clinton launch ad
• Maddow: Clinton makes opposition to dark money in politics a key part of her campaign.
• Jimmy Kimmel pranks people with Hillary’s new “campaign logo”.

Minute Physics: How do airplanes fly?

White House: West Wing Week.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about history.

Indiana Legalizes Discrimination—Still:

• Farron Cousins: Repressive religious freedom bills bring America back to the 1800’s.
• Young Turks: Indiana still discriminates but does America care?

Larry Wilmore: Maybe Black people need to fly gyrocopters instead of marching

David Pakman: Walmart pharmacist refused to fill prescription for woman who had a miscarriage.

Thom: Montana Democrats and Republicans team up to get dark money out of state politics.

How ALEC lobbies for the private prison industry

Mental Floss: 20 facts about Abraham Lincoln (and his family).

What’s White and Black and Red All Over?

• Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA): “It feels like open season on Black men.”
• Young Turks: Scott’s killer jokes about adrenaline rush after shooting.
• Jon: Police shootings and the media
• Thom: Dear Police, stop treating us like ISIS.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Reserve deputy who killed Eric Harris had falsified training documents
• Young Turks: Reserve deputy’s records appear to be falsified

Matt Binder: Fast food strike for $15 grows into a larger social justice movement.

Maddow: Reid, “The Senate is a better place because of women”.

Jon: Who Actually Strengthened Iran’s Nuclear Program?

Pelosi on Corker’s innocuous Iran bill.

Mental Floss: What makes a permanent marker permanent?

Michael Brooks: Obama’s biggest accomplishment?

Lawrence O’Donnell: What woman should be on the $20 bill.

Thom: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Very Morbillously Ugly.

Matt Binder: NRA’s Nutjob Prez Wayne LaPierre: ““Eight years of one demographically symbolic President is enough”.

Maddow and Harry Reid: That time McCain threatened to kick the shit out of Sen. Reid:

ObamaCare is Still Working:

• Sam Seder: ObamaCare is working quite well.
• Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV): More proof ObamaCare is Working.

Stephen Hawking sings the Monty Python Galaxy Song.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

It’s Tuesday…and that’s Drinking Liberally night in Seattle. So please join us for an evening of politics under the influence at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Tri-Cities and Redmond chapters also meet tonight. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

There are 191 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Jon: Kansas is America’s welfare queen.

Slate: The tide of every 18 years.

Thom: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Very Foveately Ugly.

White and Black and Red All Over:

• Larry Wilmore on the Walter Scott shooting
• Maddow: Police officer has been charged with murder
• Young Turks: Police dog savagely attacks unarmed black man
• David Pakman: SC cop plants taser next to dead body of unarmed black man
• Thom: Walter Scott’s killing is every black nightmare
• Young Turks: Walter Scott murdered and then smeared by press
• David Pakman: Killer S.C. cop has history of violence against blacks
• Thom: Is the SC shooting murder or terrorism?
• Young Turks: Cops’ history of violence against black people

Roy Zimmerman: What I Mean:
https://youtu.be/mHiXRAy05v0

Slate: A year in space.

Mental Floss: What is the origin of the high-five.

Sam Seder: Louie Gohmert unhinged, “You’re playing God with the internet!!!”

Mark Fiore: Three-eyed Billy embraces the apocalypse.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: How she learned to ‘stand up’ and ‘speak out’.

Matt Binder: Draft dodger Ted Nuget claims to know why vets are committing suicide (hint: Obama).

The 2016 Clown Parade:

• Maddow: GOP candidates dogged by political baggage
• Thom and Pap: Why the GOP is the party of the stupid.
• David Pakman: Rand Paul’s campaign is already a hilariously train wreck
• Maddow: Paul inherits bribery scandal from dad’s past
• Jon: Rand Paul’s weird announcement
• Young Turks: Rand Paul has a hissy-fit on the air.
• PsychoSuperMom: Sharp Tounged Man
• David Pakman: Is Ted Cruz a Republican plant for 2016?
• Richard Fowler: Ted Cruz is trying to repeal all climate regulation
• Young Turks: Nutcase Ted Cruz and the fabulous gay jihad against religious freedom
• David Pakman: Is disgraced Chris Christie really going to run for President?
• Thom: Should Jeb Bush go to jail for voter fraud?
• WaPo: Late night laughs…2016 contenders edition

Mental Floss: 21 Fandom Facts.

Jonathan Mann: Hey, hey, NSA, stop looking at my penis.

Maddow: TN tweaks gun laws ahead of NRA convention

Ask a homo: Gays and political groups.

Congressional hits and misses: Best of Dan Coats.

Pap: How Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held the corporate media accountable.

Bill-O the Sociopath:

• Thom: Killing Truth—O’Reilly’s Lies Exposed.
• David Pakman: Bill-O is getting away with his lies.

Garfunkel and Oats: Rainbow Connections:

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News lies about “ban the box” law.

White House: West Wing Week.

Jon on the Rolling Stone scandal.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about dinosaurs.

Maddow: NC Lawmakers push sweeping anti-abortion bill.

The Bloody Neocons Are At It Again:

• Young Turks: Congress to Obama, “War, have at it! Peace, we DEMAND oversight!”
• Thom: The Chicken Hawks need to STFU.
• Pap and Abby Martin: Neocon War Hawks prep for Iran conflict
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Iran war or diplomacy?
• Michael Brooks: These insane people want us to have a horrible war with Iran
• Young Turks: Sen. Tom Cotton’s dumbass Iran warmongering comments

David Pakman: Republican to Gays, at least we aren’t hanging you.

Thom: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Very Foudroyantly Ugly!

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Tuesday has arrived, so please join us tonight for an evening of politics and conversation over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

https://youtu.be/QcnKMW8dWSw

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Long Beach, Tri-Cities and West Seattle chapters also meet tonight. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Spokane chapters meet. And the Bremerton and Kent chapters meet on Thursday.

There are 191 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Thom: How the 1% are rewiring brains & future generations.

SlateTV: America’s Worst President.

The 2016 Clown Parade:

• David Pakman: Rand Paul fails miserably at explaining the 1st amendment
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Fighting in the Clown Car
• Nutburger Ted Cruz repeatedly say he wants to repeal something that’s not a federal law
• Pap: Scott Walker’s blueprint to destroy Wisconsin.
• “Gay friendly” Jeb Bush supports law allowing refusal of gays by businesses
• Richard Fowler: The right-wing Birfers (e.g. Donald Trump) goes after Ted Cruz.
• Maddow: Remembering Jeb Bush’s unconstitutional support of right-wing WACKOS in Florida

Russell Brand explains why FAUX News pundits “have to attack Bowe Bergdahl”.

Thom: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Very Cheimaphillicly Ugly.

Mental Floss: Thirty facts about chocoloate.

Thom: How much dark money is being funneled into our “democracy”?

SlateTV: The strange chemistry of the Crab Nebula.

A PSA from The Committee for Universal Accessibility and Lycantropic Concerns.

The Anti-Gay Agenda:

• If you’re anti-gay…Indiana wants you!
• PsychoSuperMom: Scary, Indiana
• Mike Pence inhaled
• Seth Meyers: Yes, No, or George
• Maddow: Indiana governor Pence flounders defending discrimination law
• David Letterman: Not the Indiana I remember as a kid
• NCAA floats idea of pulling out of Indiana.
• Young Turks: States and groups ban interactions with Indiana
• Lawrence O’Donnell: George Takei, “Indiana law effects all Americans”.
• SNL lays out some hard truths on Indiana’s bigotry law
• Sen. Al Franken tells David Letterman to run for Indiana Senate
• Conan speaks with Indiana’s “religious freedom czar”
• Gov. Daniel Malloy (D-CT) Nobody who defends Indiana Law is qualified to be President
• David Pakman: Pathetic anti-gay liar Mike Pence makes a fool of himself
• Matt Binder: No Pizza for your gay wedding in Walkerton, Indiana
• Maddow: Religious right puts GOP at odds with public opinion:
  https://youtu.be/9NVKz25L3kw
• Young Turks: Mike Pence clowns himself on national TV
• Michael Brooks: Indiana Gov.’s Big Fat Gay Wedding Problem
• Mark Fiore: Religious freedom and gay commerce
• Thom: Why Indiana’s Indiana’s “Stand Your Ground” Anti-Gay law is different from the federal and other state RFRA laws.
• Young Turks: Mike Pence signs changes to Indiana’s religious freedom law
• Maddow: Indiana an object lesson for wary Arkansas governor
• Arkansas Gov’s son asked him to veto “religious freedom” bill
• Alex Wagner: Dan Savage hits Tom Cotton for comments on gays with “bigot blender brain”.
• Young Turks: What changes were made to Indiana’s anti-gay law?
• Matt Binder: Ted Cruz’s father incites right wingers to ponder killing judges over same-sex marriage
• David Pakman: Virginia set to pass a “No Gays Allowed” law.
• Young Turks: Religious bigot against gays but adultery is a “different kind of sin”
• David Pakman: Arkansas Gov. won’t sign anti-gay bill…for now.
• Ann Telnaes: Mixing religion and politics will come back to haunt the G.O.P.

Mental Floss: Thirty one facts about pigs.

Greenman: Naomi Oreskes’ climate change elevator pitch.

David Pakman: Is MSNBC dying?

Netflix for kids.

David Pakman: This years, guns will kill more Americans than cars.

Farron Cousins: Has the tort reform fight been won?

SlateTV: Obama loves America.

Meet the Part African Black, Part Jewish, and Part Swiss and (Apparently) Offensive Comedian Who Will Replace Jon:

• Young Turks: Trevor Noah to replace Jon
• Sam Seder: The Daily Show has found its replacement for Jon
• Aasif Mandvi: On the new host….
• David Pakman: Controversial tweets from Trevor Noah.
• Young Turks: People are outraged by Trevor Noah jokes?!?
• WaPo: Meet Trevor Noah
• FAUX News comedian Chris Wallace also makes “fat women” jokes!

Thom: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Very Glottogonicly Ugly.

Matt Binder: Asshole ex-Governor John Sununu (R-NH) thinks Obama is only visiting Kenya to incite the Birfers.

Rubin Report: Republicans fear Obama more than Putin

White House: West Wing Week, 5th anniversary edition .

Sam Seder and Michael Brooks: Dick Cheney’s lies keep pouring in.

Thom and Pap: Our 2016 casino elections.

David Pakman: Deranged nutburger Rep. Louie Gohmert explodes, “You’re Playing God with the internet!”

Maddow chats with Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

CNN: Reid on leaving and going after the Koch brothers and Mitt Romney.

David Pakman: Indiana’s public health disaster follows from Planned Parenthood closure.

Iran:

• Thom: Why Republicans are sabotaging their own country on the Iran nuclear agreement
• Michael Brooks: Rep. Louie Gohmert is so ignorant on Iran…it even surprises FAUX News!
• Young Turks: We have a deal (to make a deal).
• Obama announces framework on Iran nuclear program
• Maddow: Iran nuclear deal hailed as groundbreaking:
  https://youtu.be/h4ULXca7M2E
• Young Turks: Republican FAUX News “expert” lies about future of Iran nuclear deal
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Obama picks up an odd ally…Bill-O-The-Clown!

Senator denies 280,000 people health care then calls advocate ‘asshole’ for asking him to give up his own health care.

Young Turks: In which Karl Rove is a dick to an Iraqi War veteran.

Sharpton: Fixing the criminal justice system.

Thom: Getting dark money out of politics.

The Barbara Mikulski tribute edition of Congressional hits and misses.

The best of CSPAN callers.

Seth Meyers finally puts the Elizabeth Warren Presidential run idea to rest..

David Pakman: Why won’t Republicans acknowledge Obama’s strong economy?

Menendez Indictment:

• Maddow: NJ Sen. Bob Menendez is indicted.
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: MenendezGhaaaaaziiiiii!!!1!11!!! Republicans invent some insane Obama/Iran/Menendez conspiracy theory.

White House: Obama signs memorandum of disapproval on anti-labor bill.

John Oliver: Red-tailed hawks:

Thom with Prof. Michael Mann: Has climate change affected the West Coast?

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about appliances.

David Pakman: Small government Republican would make church mandatory.

The Church of Scientology responds to Going Clear.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. Please join us for an evening of politics and conversation over a pint. It will be an evening to savoring on our last day before the Seattle economic apocalypse….

We meet every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

https://youtu.be/BNBR2wZVMXI

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.

There are 189 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Ann Telnaes: Making executions easier.

SlateTV: The times we made animals into bombs.

Political fashion chat.

How teachers are funding gun companies against their will.

Young Turks: Why are Republican Governors so pro-prison rape?

See the earth change over the past 200 million years.

The 2016 Clown Parade:

• Mark Fiore: Imagine Republican Dough.
• WaPo: Ted Cruz in his own nutty words
• Sam Seder: Peter King pretends to not be Ted Cruz.
• Confronted by Dreamers…Ted Cruz is already on the run!
• The Ted Cruz honest presidential ad
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz forces Liberty University students to attend his speech
• Pap and Cliff Schecter: George W. Bush lowered the bar for Ted Cruz
• Chris Hayes: It’s True! Ted Cruz is going on ObamaCare
• Maddow: Ted Cruz launches his campaign for Vice President
• Bill Maher and friends: The puzzle of Ted Cruz (and his changed taste in music).
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz thinks non-Christians have too much power
• Jon: Ted Cruz’s kiss rehearsal
• David Pakman: Nutcase Ted Cruz signs up for ObamaCare after vowing to repeal ObamaCare.
• Matt Binder: Ted Cruz launches his presidential campaign at university founded by racist who blamed gays for 9/11
• Ted Cruz: Imagine!
• Larry Wilmore, Lewis Black and Friends: Ted
• Richard Fowler: Idiot Ted Cruz wants to repeal Federal legislation that does not exist
• David Pakman: Lying hypocrite Ted Cruz falsely claims he was required to sign up for ObamaCare
• Chris Hayes: Cruz is ‘the elite of the elite’ acting like he is ‘folksy’
• Michael Brooks: Gov. Jerry Brown lays the smack down on Ted Cruz’s climate denial
• Young Turks: The insane conspiracy theories that Ted Cruz actually believes
• Chris Cillizza: Ted Cruz and Barack Obama have more in common than you think
• Sam Seder: Ted Cruz claims 9/11 made him love country music
• Sam Seder: Donald Trump goes all Birfer on Ted Cruz
• Maddow: Dark money probe raises questions about Scott Walker donations
  https://youtu.be/7WTTihwUijo
• Pap and Sam Seder: Jeb Bush’s shameful past
• Maddow: Bush/Cheney running again for President?
• Richard Fowler: Jeb Bush wants to eliminate the minimum wage
• David Pakman: Rick Santorum meets woman who is crazier than he is!
• Sam Seder: Louie Gohmert is running for President?!?

Sen. Nelson slams alleged ban on climate change speech.

Sam Sacks: ALEC is too toxic for BP.

John Oliver: John Oliver hits Netanyahu’s ‘Michael Jackson-level’ walking back on two-state solution.

Sam Seder: Media darling John McCain says media favors “wacko birds”.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about the bible.

Maddow: The kids are alright.

Young Turks: Sean Hannity gets out-hannitied in his “War on Spring Break”.

The Duck Dynasty Child Rape–Murder Fantasy…for a Prayer Breakfast:

• Young Turks: Duck Dynasty patriarch paints bizarre rape & murder scenario “against atheism”
• Sam Seder: Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s horrifying atheist rape-murder fantasy

SlateTV: Can animals be altruists?

Why every new Macbook uses a different goddamn charger.

Jon plugs his ears and pretends climate change doesn’t exist.

If anti-vaccine parents rode the Magic School Bus:
https://youtu.be/nDjz5qHIzsc

Some Congresscritters read mean tweets.

Young Turks: Traitor Republican Senators used Israeli spies against their own country.

Jon and Kristen: Pay equality for women.

ObamaCare at Five:

• Obama: Marking the 5th anniversary of the ACA
• Media Matters Minute: Five years later, conservative media’s worst predictions for ObamaCare never came to pass.
• John Green: Is Obamacare working? The Affordable Care Act five years later
• Media Matters Minute: FAUX cites anonymous “expert” to suggest ObamaCare enrollment numbers aren’t real.

Go Green and save the earth…if you have time.

Mental Floss: 16 shampoo facts.

Michael Brooks: John McCain throws a tantrum accusing Obama of throwing a tantrum.

Jon Jon catches FAUX News “jerking itself off”.

White House: West Wing Week.

Pap: SCOTUS gets one correct for voting rights

Indiana—The Crossroads of American Homophobia:

• Sam Seder: Indiana Governor admits no reason for vicious anti-gay law but signs it anway
• David Pakman: Gen Con Gamers will move their Convention out of Indiana
• Indiana: A great place to be…a bigot:
  https://youtu.be/5LH2FVxrj4k
• Young Turks: Gay people not welcome in Christian businesses in Indiana

WaPo with some Congressional dos and don’ts.

President Obama: Take our daughters and sons to work day.

Aasif Mandvi mocks the media in brutal RTCA dinner speech.

David Pakman: CA AG goes to court to keep ‘Shoot the Gays’ initiative off the ballot.

Mitt Romney and Jimmy Fallon face off on the Tonight Show.

Sen. Reid Announces His Retirement:

• Young Turks: Kick Ass facts about Sen. Reid
• Sen. Harry Reid announces he will not run again.
• Young Turks: What will happen after Sen. Reid retires?

Mental Floss: Fourteen ways technology has improved our lives.

Jon: The daily show fixes the VA’s “crow problem”

Young Turks: Germanwings Flight 9525 right-wing conspiracy theories.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. Please join us for the start of spring and, with an announcement by Sen. Ted Cruz, the start of what will likely be the most entertaining presidential election season ever.

We meet every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. On Wednesday, the Bellingham, Burien, and Spokane chapters meet. The Woodinville and Kentchapters meet on Thursday.

There are 189 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

WaPo: Remembering the LAST government shutdown.

Harry Reid thanks (self-certified ophthalmologist) Sen. Rand Paul for eye injury advice.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Lethiferously Ugly.

David Pakman: TX Senate approves concealed campus carry gun bill.

Chris Hayes: Seattle revolts against Big Oil Arctic Drilling by Shell.

Sam Seder: This is the Republican base and the GOP presidential hopefuls who created them:

Maddow: Oregon’s top women makes voting EASIER.

Mental Floss: 51 astounding facts about animals.

PsychoSuperMom: Religious freedom (Doesn’t mean the freedom to discriminate).

Sam Seder: Alabama is desperately trying to retard it’s own progress.

Jon: Netanyahu is stealing our election strategies.

David Pakman: Snoop Dog asks fans to divest from gun industry.

Vsauce: The science of awkwardness.

Maher goes after college fraternities.

Republicans Take Another Hostage:

• Dem. Sen.: Lynch is being asked to sit at the back of the bus.
• Sen. Reid: Hard to understand holding up Lynch nomination.
• Richard Fowler: Republicans snuck anti-abortion language into anti-trafficking bill

Thom: Climate scientists are fighting back against the fossil fuel industry’s propaganda campaign.

White House: West Wing Week.

Jon: FAUX News and its Benghazi “Rage-gasm”.

Obama fact-checks his critics:

The NRA plan to push guns on campus.

Mental Floss: Why do mosquitoes prefer biting some people to others?

David Pakman: Obama mentions mandatory voting…Republicans’ heads explode.

Peloci is concerned that it isn’t about email.

Sam Seder: FAUX News pundit stuns colleagues by not being a moron.

Thom: How ALEC’s actions are harming our planet.

Maddow: Hillary admits she wants Americans in “camps” (and other crazy things).

Schock and Aaaaaaaawwwwwwww:

• The spectacular fall of Rep. Aaron Schock (Follow the Money)
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: The bizarre implosion of Aaron Schock
• Jon: Aaron Schock
• Maddow: Republican star quits under onslaught of money questions

Michelle Obama’s message to her younger self.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about psychology.

Farron Cousins: Inside the secret campaign to destroy workers’ rights.

Thom: The brutal winter that wasn’t.

Sam Seder: As the climate crisis worsens, Republicans want CIA to stop studying it’s threat to security.

Mark Fiore: Shoot-em-up Charlie loves cop killers.

Maddow: Chemical lobbyist exposed as author of new bill to regulate industry:
https://youtu.be/ttVzup1JX30

Race in America:

• Young Turks: Why Stephen A. Smith wants all Black people to vote Republican
• Farron Cousins: Ferguson P.D. is a horde of racists
• Young Turks: Dick Cheney claims Obama is using race card to avoid criticism
• Larry Wilmore: Not impressed with Starbucks racetogether campaign (and other topics).
• Young Turks: “Boy wonder” James O’Keefe wants protesters to murder police
• Young Turks: White supremacist terrorist plot to kill Obama thwarted

Chris Hayes: Tesla wins fight to sell cars directly in New Jersey.

Thom and Pap: Email gate…Jeb Bush busted using private email for security issues.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Please join us this evening for a St. Patrick’s Day party peppered with political prognostication at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Shelton chapters also meet. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

There are 189 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.