Wanna see Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer live in concert? Then you’ll want to win one of these pairs of tickets I’m giving away. [CLICK TO ENTER]

Pennyroyal Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center in Hopkinsville will receive $1,604,714 from VA Grants for Homeless Veterans. The funds will be used to create 50 beds for homeless veterans this year. [Press Release]

What? Mitch McConnell laugh? Surely you jest. [C-J]

The Courier-Journal editorial board chimes in on the Jim King-Katie King campaign finance mess. We do, indeed, need campaign finance reform. But remedying just one statute isn’t going to cut it. [C-J]

The Herald-Leader editorial board makes sense of the sex offender strike down last week. And they quote Joni Jenkins. [H-L]

Daniel Mongiardo’s campaign finally reacted to the latest U.S. Senate poll. Apparently Kentucky values involve calling the governor an “SOB” and maligning the elected office for which you are running while simultaneously shirking official duties. [Joe Arnold]

Speaking of Lt. Dan, he’s still avoiding the blue whale in the room. Check out the highlights from his latest email blast. [Barefoot & Progressive]

That birthed lady, Orly Taitz, is a trip. And she got a mainstream profile. Remember when she harassed Jack Conway? [WaPo]

President Barack Obama today named John McCauley as Executive Director of Kentucky’s Farm Service Agency at the USDA. According to a press release, McCauley was the managing member of JWM Consulting Service for seven years, was director of the Division of Pesticide Regulation in the state Department of Agriculture in the 90s and was on the Governor’s Commission on Literacy five years prior to that. He’s also worked in the Kentucky Labor Cabinet and for the general assembly. [Press Release]