Will you be in Chicago this weekend? Do you like to drink? That second one is kind of a dumb question I know. This Saturday and Sunday is one of the city’s oldest (and gayest) street festivals. And, um, its success sort of helps pay my salary. So if you want to drink beer and by doing so help support my extravagant non-profit lifestyle, come out to Midsommarfest. I will be around all weekend, and maybe I will even by you a beer. Just ask anyone with a staff t-shirt where to find Jason.

And yes, the planning of this event is pretty much why I haven’t been around too much.

Sorry in advance to subject you to more Malkin, but I worked hard on this one and I am not going to let Nojo steal my thunder. Oh, and don’t worry, none of these links actually go to her site. Daddy Uncle Jason loves you all way to much for that.

I have a dirty little secret to tell - sometimes I read Michelle Malkin’s blog. It isn’t easy for me to admit, because it is the biggest waste of time and energy. But I am a white person, and as such I like to be offended. Call me a glutton for punishment or whatever, but sometimes it is fun to check in on the nutroots and get a sense of what they are screaming about, especially as the house of cards they have helped build comes tumbling down around them (oh, and seriously watch that clip of Rachel and Keith). I am fond of her upside down dead Republican elephant graphic - it is cute! If even she is admitting there is trouble in paradise, you know they is fucked.

As Hunter linked to earlier, and Nojo wrote about today, the latest crusade of the insane cheerleader is against the wearing of the keffiyeh, the colorful fringed scarf worn in many Middle Eastern countries (i.e. dirty Muslim ones) so therefore a symbol of terrorist lovers. After the jump, let’s discuss the cultural touchstone that set off this MAJOR! POLITICAL! SCANDAL! and perhaps ruined Ms. Malkin’s chance of scoring that major corporate sponsorship - and more importantly free donuts for life - that she was so obviously angling for.

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To further push CP into the firm yet tender grasp of the Sodomite-Americans, your long-absent-but-still-loves-you-all homofascist brings you this story about a unique promotion from a Minnesota baseball team, just in time for National Tap Dance day! Meet the Larry Craig ‘bobblefoot!’:

The Minnesota minor league baseball team The St. Paul Saints is doing away with traditional “bobblehead” giveaways this weekend and handing out an homage to Idaho Senator Larry Craig, who as you well know was arrested in a local airport for tapping under the stall at an undercover cop.

The team is handing out “bobblefoot” knickknacks featuring a bathroom stall with a pair of feet, one of which is springloaded and ‘taps’. The baseball team’s press release claims that the item honors “National Tap Dance Day”.

According to the Star-Tribune, “The team also takes pains to note: ‘It doesn’t matter if your tapping style is done with a ‘wide stance’ or is used as some sort of code.’”

Although now knowing about Senator Craig’s bathroom proclivities, I am thinking a bobblehead would also be appropriate.

Minneapolis Baseball Team Hands Out Larry Craig ‘Bobblefoot’ [Towleroad]

Hey military families! Did your husband/son/father/brother or wife/daughter/mother/sister get themselves unnecessarily sent over to Iraq for an immoral, flawed, and un-fucking-believably criminal war? I hope they made it back okay, alive and in one piece and with all of their wits about them. But just in case you can’t say that about your loved one, our stupid fucking president George W. Bush wants you to know that he has made sacrifices too. He gave up golf!

“I didn’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

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And of course in Florida.  Who put out the hit?  We still have her records, right? [Chicago Tribune]