Come to a Reason Happy Hour with Matt Welch in Austin on September 26!
Drinks and conversation from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Swift's Attic

Attention, friends o' Reason anywhere near Austin, Texas: Let's have some adult beverages and lively conversation TOMORROW from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at a joint called Swift's Attic!
I will be in town to moderate a panel at the Texas Tribune Festival featuring Libertarian Party National Chair (and Phoenix mayoral candidate) Nicholas Sarwark, Texas gubernatorial candidate Mark Tippetts, and Indiana Senate candidate Lucy Brenton, so we can talk about that stuff if you'd like. Or you could just regale me with stories about bats and bands and tacos. You decide! Here are the details (including all-important RSVPs):
Who: All 21-and-over friends and frenemies of Reason are welcome!
What: Happy Hour with Austin pals, featuring Matt Welch
When: September 26, 5:30-7:00 p.m. We may stay out later…
Where: Swift's Attic, 315 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701
RSVP: abbey-dot-lee-at-reason-dot-org.
See you there!
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Austin...
For, literally, a cocktail party.
Stay woke
It's why Welch has gotten so shitty lately, he knows all the jokes are true and he's grown to despise himself.
I should show up and basically be me. Matt will enjoy the angry lecture about where he's wrong on everything lately.
I almost feel I owe it to him to correct him.
Lets also just ignore that Mark Tippetts, the Libertarian candidate for Texas Governor is speaking that same week a few blocks away. Reason has had zero mentions of the event, or even the damn candidate for that matter - go ahead, search, I'll wait.
...what I'm most mad about is that Johnson had endless coverage of the fact he was being excluded from debates, and Tippetts is undergoing the same thing as we speak, and he has more support statistically speaking than Johnson did for Pres.
Are you guys all going to talk about how important it is to understand and be nice to socialists?
You were really quite severely triggered by that, weren't you?
Never mind - I didn't see how old this post was before I responded.
No. I was triggered. I will not be nice to socialists, anymore than I would Nazis
Get over it. It was literally minutes ago the last atrocity happened.
Dallas and you're on. Austin blows.
Ditto.
Born and raised in Dallas, Austin's better.
The only good thing about Dallas is the concentration of people willing to have anonymous gay sex with you.
That's a pretty good thing, imo.
Austin is awesome. Dallas is one of the least interesting cities I have ever visited.
Lots of good Korean food in Dallas.
It hasn't been the same since JR Ewing passed away.
Will Iowahawk be there too?
It looks like yes, Iowahawk will be there. Which makes me very jealous that this is on a Wednesday. Sorry Welch. You're overshadowed.
How would you know Iowahawk will be there other than the fact that you're Nick Sarwark?
David Burge is the shadow power behind the LP. Why do you think it's such a big joke?
Go Hawks!
How about I tell you all about my cats? In great detail...
No Scott Horton or Cody Wilson? Meh.
Scott Horton might actually bring in libertarians.
Mr. Wilson will be....otherwise detained.
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BUCS is going to be in Austin. Boo him
I'm also gonna be in Dallas for Christmas and maybe San Antonio for PAX.
Typically, the douchebag just keeps digging himself a deeper and deeper hole
Wilkinson is the original woketarian.
What do you disagree with in that tweet?
That last part of "or think women lying about sexual assault is a bigger problem than sexual assault."
That's both a false dichotomy and a non-sequitor as one can both be concerned about false accusations of criminal activity and actual criminal activity.
not progressives, their passions are too strong and brains too small to emote about more than one thing at a time
What do you disagree with in that tweet?
The part after the blue checkmark.
Proving yet again that Niskanen (sp?) is about as libertarian as the RNC.
the responses are priceless and spot on.
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Do you guys go by the "if you black out, it didn't happen" rule of certain supreme court nominees?
Go to Austin to find out!
What are the policy reasons you oppose Kavanaugh that don't involve a drunk, schizophrenic woman babbling on about something she can't prove and can't provide a reliable witness for?
The same basis why Reason writers are willing to accept unsubstantiated allegations that are refuted by witnesses named by the accuser: Kavanaugh may allow states to restrict abortion whereby it will not be available through all nine months of pregnancy.
It's an argument that can be had, but it's profoundly disingenuous that people are hiding their true rationale behind flimsy allegations
All of the policy reasons. I don't give a shit about the drunken antics. Like I'm someone to judge that.
But being a Heritage Foundation slut is not going to block his appointment, so I'll take what I can get. I haven't been much for the Democrats' strategy of unilateral disarmament in the face of Mitch McConnell.
You Lefties have been outwitted by the Turtleman.
I'll only go if Iowahawk shows up.
Burge just tweeted from Antone's
Did you guys contact Scott Horton about attending?
I'm sure Steve Chapman will be there, why wouldn't Horton?
I didn't know Chapman would be there. That sounds good
I'm just guessing - he used to publish here quite frequently, dontchano.
I know. I remember. He got a lot of undeserved crap from commentators. Now him and Horton are running the Libertarian Institute
Damn it. Not Chapman. We're both thinking of Richman. It's weird how we both confused him with Chapman and still knew who we were talking about
Sheldon Richman?
Yes
'It's weird how we both confused him with Chapman and still knew who we were talking about'
you know who else failed to see the difference between certain individuals?
Ford, if the doppelganger theory is true?
Chapman is a moron. Richman has bizarre positions on things, but he's not stupid.
In Sheldon's view, if the Israelis handed the Palestinians their wallets and slit their own throats, world peace would ensue
Republican senators have selected Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to question Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused the Supreme Court nominee of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, a top senator announced Tuesday. Mitchell, the sex crimes bureau chief for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office in Phoenix, will query the two at Thursday's highly anticipated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Maricopa County? *Sheriff Joe Arpaio* Maricopa County!?
It just gets better and better!
Go to Austin to hang with matt welch or poke my eyes out?
...give me minute decide....
The opportunity to tell him how wrong he is has a certain appeal to it.
Matt Welch trolls these comments.
I saw an interview with him and he grinned when he referred to the Reason commenters as 'very opinionated' or something like that to articulate how uncensored we can be.
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