Drinking Liberally 9/28

Drinking Liberally will be held at the regular moonbat time and the regular moonbat station. For the unititiated, that is this Thursday at The Shanty on 4th Ave. and the underpass, begining at 6pm.

This week, our special guests include Dave Ewoldt, an expert and consultant on sustainable development, and Mark Manoil, Democratic candidate for AZ Corporation Commission. Both guests will be speaking and leading discussion on sustainable city developement and energy. We will also be joined by Dr. Chat, former Democratic Candidate for Congress in AZ’s CD 2, who is now assisting several Democratic candidates, including Mark Manoil, with their campaigns.

Last week, we had a great session of Drinking Liberally with several fresh faces along with many DL regulars. We had some great conversations and made some great new friends.

Next week, Tom Volgy, former Mayor of Tucson, former Congressional candidate, and current PolSci Professor at UofA will be joining us, along with his wife, to share his experienced viewpoint on domestic and international affairs.

The following week, we are screening Robert Greenwald’s new film ‘Iraq for Sale’. The film will start as soon as it gets dark enough to project (which is around 7pm). The RSVP system for the film is full, but Drinking Liberally regulars shouldn’t worry, I reserved space for you.

I’ve added a Google Calendar button to the Drinking Liberally section of the right sidebar, so DLers can check out what is scheduled for future meetings. We generally don’t plan more than a month or two in advance, and all schedules are subject to change without notice (politicians are a little flakey about keeping their appointments). If you have suggestions for special guests or events, drop a comment here, post to our bulletin board, or send an email to TUCSON at DRINKINGLIBERALLY dot ORG and let us know.

The inaugural meeting of Reading Liberally is getting closer: Oct. 4th at the Speedway/Wilmot Bookmans. We will be discussing "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean. I will posting a resource guide on the book this week in preparation for the discussion.

For your amusement:

The Arizona 9/11 memorial is strting to bubble up into a national story, stoked by paranoid right wing bloggers. Now the story is on Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air (which generally means that the fascists are going to sink their teeth into it), and Gov. Napolitano has commented on the ‘contoversy’. We in the reality-based community would do well to push back on this nuttiness.

For those who haven’t yet seen it, this week’s political theater is provided by Bill Clinton, vigorously defending his legacy on anti-terrorism. You can hardly find this video on the social networks, because FOX’s legal team has swung into action, sending out cease and desist letters like junk mail. Seems almost like they want to be able to ridicule him on their network as being overly-emotional or incompetent, but not let people see the whole interview easily. Instead, FOX has put a link to the first few minutes of the interview on their front page, but the remaining 3/4 of interview is buried in separate clips at the bottom of the video page. You have to scroll down to find them, or sit through an additional 30 seconds of ads for each clip on the roll-over. It is obvious that FOX is trying to limit access to the entire interview in context and pushing only the part in which they feel Clinton’s counter-attack is weakest. It’s a masterful demonstration of how to do a digital lynching under the guise of a business case.

The always honest and brave Olbermann takes his swipe at the blame-Clintonistas. He may be the best thing on TV.