“Wha’ choo talkin’ about, Willis?”

[SF Chronicle]

Willie Nelson, 77, has cut off his signature braids, and is now sporting a page-boy cut.  If he announces next week he’s giving up pot, the world will have officially ended.

[Dallas Morning-News]

President Obama came to Ess Eff tonight to raise a shitload of money for Barbara Boxer at an event at the Fairmont Hotel. On a freakishly cold and rainy late May day, everyone turned out to stand on Mason Street to welcome Barry.

While the predictable tea-bagger/ “Obama is a Mooslem Hitler Man”/ Hands-off-my-Medicare crowd managed to get through bridges and tunnels to protest in Baghdad by the Bay, the protest brought out some of my favorites, including the only-in-SF (or perhaps Eugene/Portland/Seattle) protesters, including, I shit thee not, the cliched save the whales crowd.

Courtesy of Shaky Hand Productions, three minutes of a walk down Mason Street.

In 2008 when his father Ron was running for the GOP nomination for President, Rand(al) Paul went campaigning for dear old dad in Montana, where he expounded upon his fear that there was a conspiracy to create a shared currency of an “Amero” for all of North America, as well as a “NAFTA Superhighway” that would connect Mexico, the U.S., and Canada and destroy our national identity.

There is no NAFTA Superhighway, but the conspiracy theory is widely shared by nationalist wingnuts. Newsweek described the conspiracy theory as “a strange stew of fact and fiction, fired by paranoia” popularized by Jerome Corsi, the man who led the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004.

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Earlier this week in West Allis, Wisconsin, a bartender wrapped a noose of duct tape around the neck of a Barack Obama effigy and set it on fire to the loud cheers of the bar patrons.

Naturally, someone videotaped what happened, the local police got involved, and the cops contacted the Secret Service, as they investigate all threats made against the President.  The Secret Service ended their investigation, but West Allis authorities are still determining if burning the effigy violates the town’s fire code.

Do you think this bar would serve blacks if the Civil Rights Act of 1964 didn’t exist?

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It’s a busy morning here at the Stinque Department of Lady-Bits, what with all the Congressional Republican sex-related stories breaking out.  We now move from the Hoosier State to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Jeffrey Perry, who is running in the Republican primary for Massachusetts’ 10th Congressional District, was involved in two cases in Wareham the mid-90s as a police sergeant in which young teen girls were inappropriately and illegally strip-searched, according to the Boston Globe.

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Arch-conservative family values Congressman Mark Souder, elected in the 1994 Gingrich revolution, will be resigning today in light of the disclosure that he has been having an affair with an aide.  Sources are standing by to determine if the aide is a dead woman or a live boy.

[Politico]