Drinking LIberally .. an essay.

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DL is a weekly affair at the Montlake Tavern. Formally hosted by a liberal organization, yclept Drinking Liberally, in reality this one is sorta like a 1700s French salon, with an assortment of Woody Alan/Seinfeld/Neil Simon characters orbiting around David Goldstein.
David is a political junkie-liberal-activist and likely eventual force in local Demo politics.
Actually, as I understand the salons, DL is very different in one way. The hostess at the salons
was the nominal attraction. The guests were her court, she gave favors and credibility. Maybe the beer serves this purpose at Montlake. But the Madame at a Paris salon of 1767 did did not lead. Instead she got her merit badges from attracting luminaries. The room was like a collection of small suns, each with tis own planets. Mostly, this salon is about one luminary. The rest of the crowd is interesting but they are in orbit around the star.

As "Goldie" David hosts a very informative local website, HorsesAss.org, with a political professional's insights and fascination with campaign detail. He gained fame for launching a state instigative to rename our local right wing instigative monger form Tim Eynman to "horse's ass." The initiative, unlike too many of Eynman's horrors, failed but it made Goldy something of a local celeb.

The website is a heavily visited local website and, as part of DL, Goldie launched a podcast.