I walked by a building the on the way to Drinking Liberally, and I noticed that the name of it was written in cursive. People aren’t being taught cursive in a lot of schools. It’s a decision I generally support, so this isn’t a getoffmylawn post.
I wonder how long until most people find that building indecipherable. It’ll probably get painted over long before that. It made me wonder what I walk by that I don’t notice that everyone would have understood 50, 100 whatever years ago.
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally was founded in early 2005, and has been meeting weekly ever since. Please join us tonight for a drink, some political conversation and, if you wish, some dinner.
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 231 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.
There is a crow’s nest in the tree across from my apartment. They must have just had a chick, because they’re aggressively dive-bombing people. Over the weekend, I saw that avian asshole attack 2 people so much that they ran away. Fortunately, they haven’t gone after me yet. But others have. I feel like they’re more aggressive than usual this year, but I don’t know.
Numbers 22:29
Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.”
Discuss.
Jimmy Dore chats with Bill-O-The-Clown about Roger Ailes.
Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Sam Seder: The grotesque Трампcare graph Paul Ryan doesn’t want you to see.
Traveler Трамп and Company:
VOX: How the media’s weapons fetish primes us for war.
How to eat pudding in space.
Samantha Bee: Gianforte body-slammed the vote.
Sam Seder: Dipshit Rick Santorum (debating Jennifer Granholm) says the Sun is “not reliable, not consistent”.
Warming Globe:
Samantha Bee: An interview with Al Franken.
Bill Maher: New Rule—get low.
Young Turks: Remember when Ted Nugent threatened Obama?
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I’ve been trying to cut down on my time on the Internet. Not a complete shut down, but just not faffing around. Anyway. Turns out that I am once again writing some nonsense from the bus rather than having written anything in advance. Sorry, but it might be better for me.
Look, we all agree that Alaska Rep. David Eastman is the wooooorst. Fuck that guy. What an ass.
But! Maybe Seattle’s tourism industry should embrace it. A city so great you’ll have a dangerous second trimester pregnancy terminated just for a visit.
Please join us this evening as we make up and discuss fake news for submission to the national media fake news feed at this week’s 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 230 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.
2 Chronicles 23:13
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
Discuss.
The famine food truck.
Jimmy Kimmel: This week in unnecessary censorship.
Young Turks: Ben and Jerry’s is banning same-flavor scoops for marriage equality down under.
Tales of the Трамп:
WaPo: Obama gives Europeans a message of solidarity and hope.
Jimmy Dore: Sec. of Energy Rick Perry still wants to be called “Governor”!
Monkeys can demand ransom, too.
David Pakman: SCOTUS rules Republicans gerrymandered NC districts by race
Putin’s Persons of Interest:
VOX: The evolution of American protest music.
Bill Maher: Fuck Mars!.
Michael Brooks: Sean Hannity has a meltdown as FAUX News retracts Seth Rich conspiracy story.
Visit the USA: National treasures for sale.
GOP Tries to Loot America:
Stephen is also body slamming his enemies.
Samantha Bee: A brief history of Florida’s felon voting ban.
Mental Floss: 41 facts about unique architecture.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
In Wednesday’s Open Thread, I called a hair shirt a “hare shirt.” I got called on it by Roger in the comments, and I feel so, so, so bad. I’ll have to say 30 hale merrys.
I was talking to Darryl last night, and he wants you all to know he is very, very, very sorry that he missed yesterday’s Drinking Liberally thread. It’s a deep sadness. It probably kept him up last night. He’s wearing a hare shirt.
I’m feeling a bit blah today. So even less of my nonsense than usual.
Leviticus 11:5
And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
Discuss.
WaPo: The 2016 conversation Paul Ryan wanted to keep private.
The surprising pattern behind color names around the world.
Trevor Noah: So much news, so little time.
The Man-Baby Трамп and his Handlers Sitters:
Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear energy.
John Oliver: Dialysis.
Straw Men of the Apocalypse: How to deal with your climate change denying uncle.
Mark Fiore: Taxcutiva.
The ТрампRussia investigation gets “Special”:
Ducks aren’t using the “gold plated” ramp yet.
Full Frontal: George W. Bush gives at speech.
Young Turks: Women’s rights are human rights.
Sam Seder and friends: Mike Huckabee is STILL stuck on gay marriage.
Jimmy Kimmel: Schoolhouse Rock – I’m Just a Lie:
Ailes Kicks It:
Bill Maher: I don’t know it for a fact…I just know it’s true.
ONN: Scientists capture audio of beetle colliding with paper clip for first time.
Profiles in swearing: Three recent high-profile examples.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
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