Rep. Mike McMahon (D-NY) has fired his reelection finance director after she compiled a list of more than 80 donors to McMahon’s opponent who she said are Jewish to the New York Observer. She provided the paper with a list of donors entitled “Jewish Money Q2.”

From the Observer: McMahon’s (former) finance director, Jennifer Nelson, who is Jewish, complied a list of Jewish donors to one of McMahon’s potential Republican opponents, an ex-FBI agent Mike Grimm.  A spokesperson for McMahon’s campaign told the Observer that Nelson identified the donors as Jewish because “she knows a lot of people in that community” and could recognize their names.

[SFL: Nelson? That sounds more like a shiksa name. Carry on.]

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Oakland Police and Alameda County prosecutors have confirmed the fears of some of us that a big disaster was averted when California Highway Patrol officers pulled over Byron Williams on 580 in Oakland on Saturday night after he was weaving and speeding in traffic.

Williams, who was wearing body armor and carrying an arsenal of handguns and rifles, proceeded to get a lengthy gun battle with the police because of his hatred of people of the “left wing agenda.” 

OPD and the DA announced today that Williams was headed to Ess Eff to try to kill staff of the ACLU of Northern California and the nonprofit Tides Foundation, which funds environmental and social justice groups in California and across the country.

What did these two groups do that was so bad?

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What’s better than fear-mongering about illegal immigrants from Mexico?

Why, it’s fear-mongering about illegal immigrants from Mexico harboring scary Mooslems from Afghanistan.

Don’t forget to throw in a dash of misogyny and ethnic stereotypes, too!

Presenting Fox News’ EXCLUSIVE story from San Antonio and their general asshattery of the day:

“BMWs [Big Mexican Women] are helping Afghans go AWOL from a Texas air base”

Yes, that is the headline. Surprisingly, there’s no mention as to whether the women are making tortillas or playing in a mariachi band while they’re at it.

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I present to you the winner of the Stinque Golden Vuvuzela for Hottest Hottie of the World Cup:

With 51% of the vote, Paul the Psychic Octopus crushed a field that included five sexy men and one sexy woman. Runner-up Jonathan Bornstein from Team USA mustered only 14% of the vote.

Congratulations, Paul! Enjoy your retirement from the hard work of predicting winners of soccer games.

San Francisco is famous for its more than 600 murals across The City,  including great examples of Chicano art in the Mission, the controversial pro-labor WPA-era murals in Coit Tower, and Diego Rivera’s work in various buildings.

Imagine my delight this morning when Mr. SFL and I were driving down 8th Street to Trader Joe’s and discovered the newest addition to San Francisco’s collection of murals, painted on the side of a janky  hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant.

Close ups after the jump.

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Yesterday Glenn Beck went on Bill O’Reilly’s show, and the usual hilarity and asshattery ensued.

The highlight, however, was when Glenn Beck came out of the closet as a fashionista to criticize Michelle Obama’s sartorial choice when she recently toured a Florida beach, describing her outfit as “an outrage” and the “most Marie Antoinette ever” because there was a black pattern on her shirt.  Beck said that he felt her dress was mocking people who had been affected by the oil spill. (Note to Glenn: it’s an “outfit,” not a “dress”).  Then he closes out with a tirade about how the White House garden is socialist because there are too many red vegetables. (Note to Glenn: tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable).

Glenn Beck Calls Michelle Obama ‘Marie Antoinette’

If you can’t bear to watch the clip of asshattery, here’s Shelley Oh’s ensemble.

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This week’s Us Weekly has the exclusive news that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are getting married.

The anti-Palin blogs of Alaska predicted this engagement two weeks ago, and have also predicted that there will be a subsequent announcement of a reality show featuring the young couple.

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