Chris Christie and some other bloated white men love to claim Barack Obama is the least experience president ever. Apparently, they’ve never heard of George W. Bush. [Politico]

The teabaggers are going absolutely crazy in Tennessee. Watching these shenanigans will make you proud to be a Kentuckian because our teabaggers are a bit less insane. [Reuters]

Vice President Biden said he understood the frustration that led many West Virginia Democrats to vote for a felon over President Obama in the state’s presidential primary. [The Hill]

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending. [NPR]

And you still want to claim it’s wrong to try to stop kids from getting fat. Here’s what’s happening. They’re all going to die before they’re 40. [HuffPo]

On Sunday, Local 619M of GCC/IBT (the union the C-J press people belong to) unanimously rejected the contract offered by Gannett and unanimously voted to seek a strike sanction. [Deep Kentucky Newspaper Thoughts]

Lawwwd, look at this fat white lady hollering about how mean the non-whites are. Pee alert/gag alert. Where is Skoal Rebel?! [Wonkette]

The University of Pikeville will soon have a new president. Paul Patton will be replaced by James Hurley in July 2013. Patton will remain as “chancellor,” raking in more and more cash. [WKYT]

Is 2016 tempting to Rand Paul? You know it is. Because his ego, unlike ours, is real. He believes he’s presidential material. [C-J/AKN]

Does it really matter if Loretta Lynn is 77-years-old or 80-years-old? What a silly story for people to be freaking out about. [WLKY]

Dan Rather once again hit the nail on the head about corporate media and its gross relationship with government. [HuffPo]

White House visitor logs provide a window into the lobbying industry. And the extreme extent of lobbyist access. [WaPo]

Cultivating Fear: The Vulnerability of Immigrant Farmworkers in the US to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment. You should go read the 95-page report. [Human Rights Watch]

Looks like Jamie Comer took a hint and made his name a reasonable size. Here’s a picture from Mr. Blurrycam with the details:

Thank goodness those shenanigans are behind us in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Why did Thomas Massie allow this bank in Lewis County to be robbed? He hates America. [84WHAS]

Please, hold your laughter. What? The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet maybe did something corrupt and people want Jack Conway to deal with it? [C-J/AKN]

Just in case you want another reason to end the death penalty in Kentucky? Take a look at this Texas case. [HuffPo]

Here’s your daily ruh ro moment! A state watchdog agency has issued charges against the former chief of tourism, alleging that he misused state resources for his own financial gain. [Bluegrass Politics]

After falling for several straight weeks, gasoline prices began shooting up across central Kentucky on Monday. So everybody is going to freak out a bit more. [WLEX18]

Here’s a look at how John Roberts ripped apart campaign finance reform and, you know, ruined the whole world. [The New Yorker]

American democracy’s most persistent old fart Ron Paul has announced that he no longer cares for democracy per se in the traditional sense of trying to “win votes” from “voters,” because this is a hard thing to do, when your platform is mostly insane. [Wonkette]

You can’t even walk around in Lexington these days without getting hit twice by vehicles and then dying. [H-L]

Just what Kentucky needed! A national news story about the lesbian couple in Lexington barred from their high school prom. [HuffPo]

The faux family association mouth-breathers who love to pervert their religion in order to push their ignorant views (fat white guys complaining about the gays – which half of them are) are freaking out that we – along with half the country – dared bring up Rand Paul’s homophobic mess. [Page One]

You can’t even go to the bank in Pike County these days without it being robbed at gunpoint. [WYMT]

A majority of Kentuckians favor a statewide smoking ban. Interesting that David Williams supports it and Steve Beshear does not. [WFPL]

The copilot in the Comair 5191 crash speaks in a new documentary film. [H-L]

There is a party in the pants of “Exodus International,” and nobody wants to come! And that is why the group has canceled its upcoming “Love Won Out” convention, in which ex-gay ladies show off their human male husbands, and ex-gay men show off Michele Bachmann. [Wonkette]

Let’s get something clear: Crit Luallen did have enough information from Richie Farmer’s employees to do a scathing audit like Adam Edelen did. Jack Conway even had information about wrongdoing. I know because I’ve discussed it with their staffers for years. With more than 100 people on staff, Luallen certainly had the manpower to conduct such an audit. And while we’re talking about Farmer… why aren’t we talking about corrupt former Democratic commissioners like Logsdon? [Joe Gerth]

Hillary Clinton says she wants to see a female U.S. President but that it won’t be her. [HuffPo]

Why is it so expensive to buy or sell a house in the United States? The foreigns take a hard look at it. [The Economist]

Just changing your name when you’re a mega bank with mega problems won’t solve anything. [Reuters]

Lawwwd, you can’t even rent your house out in Lexington without finding two dead bodies in it. [WKYT]

Also, you probably can’t even go anywhere in Lexington without catching the pertussis! Whatever that is. (Okay, we know it’s whooping cough, but go with it.) [WLEX18]

US hostage Warren Weinstein has pleaded with President Barack Obama to meet his captors’ demands in a video released by al-Qaeda’s media arm, says US monitoring group Site intelligence. [BBC]

Remember last week when he got our hands on that fancy letter about state payroll problems? The mainstreamers wouldn’t have seen it otherwise. Yes, we’re tooting our own horn. [Page One]

This is proof that craft beer in Kentucky is a hot ticket. Now, if only Kentucky would recognize that killing the silly label tax could seriously fatten the state coffers. [H-L]

Yeah, there’s absolutely no problem in America with bullying. Nothing to see here. Move along. [HuffPo]

Don’t miss Comment on Kentucky tonight at 8:00 P.M. Eastern on KET. Scheduled guests: Tom Loftus, Janet Patton, Amanda Van Benschoten. [KET]

Are you ready for this fancy Ben Sollee documentary? Get ready because it’s on its way. [Wooden Box]

Maybe some day the real reason for Reeeechie Farmer’s divorce will come out. A southeastern Kentucky bank has filed a foreclosure suit against former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer and his wife seeking more than $300,000 due on their mortgage loan of 2004. [WLEX18]

Once a woman beater, always a woman beater? Robby Albarado was arrested – again – for alleged domestic violence. [C-J/AKN]

Noted American humorist Dave Barry once remarked that the main jobs of a lieutenant governor are to wear a tie and call up the governor once a day to make sure he or she isn’t dead. [Wonkette]

Will this year’s presidential election determine whether a nasty dose of austerity can be avoided? [The Economist]

The gays in Lexington are getting their fancy t-shirts for free. From a company in Cincinnasti. [H-L]

Slowest internet speeds in the country? Kentucky isn’t even in the top ten for a change! [Click the Clicky]

Ever wondered what it’s like for a famous gay to take down Rush Limbaugh? Consider this your pee alert. [HuffPo]

Lawwwd, you can’t even go to Lexington these days without getting your purse snatched. You better warn your meemaw! [WKYT]

Hiring in the United States slows as more and more people are giving up their search for work. So don’t believe those unemployment numbers – people are just dropping from the rolls. [Reuters]

Defense spending trumps poverty in the Republican Congress. That’s how it always works with people like Hal Rogers and Ben Chandler. [Politico]

Whattya mean the white supremacists aren’t crazy as hell? Another instance of gun deaths related to neo-Nazis. [Reuters]

Banks are fighting to keep major mortgage reforms from becoming permanent. Specifically the big banks that Morgan McGarvey has profited from. [HuffPo]

Have you seen what the local AFSCME labor union in Louisville is doing to the Metro Parks whistleblower? [The 'Ville Voice]

Of course income inequality has warped our political system. That’s not going to change any time soon. [NYT]

How desperate is Pikeville University for cash? Paul Patton got both Greg Stumbo and Rand Paul to keynote. [Floyd County Times]

Now Jack Conway says Richie Farmer “appears” to have abused the public trust? HAHAHAHA. [WHAS11]

Mitch McConnell wet himself and started crying when A Kentucky Newspaper wrote an editorial about how, you know, much off a butt cramp he is. [C-J/AKN]

Let’s just try pretending it’s not hilarious that Michele Beard Bachmann has endorsed Mittens Romney. Would would her glitter queen husband, Mary Kay… er… Marcus… think of that? [Wonkette]

You can’t even just be in your own neighborhood in Lexington these days without being shot dead. [H-L]

One in seven senior citizens faces the threat of hunger. Even in Kentucky. It’s not something you should be ignoring. [HuffPo]

“60 Minutes” will profile the case of corrupt former Whitley County Sheriff Lawrence Hodge. Yet another embarrassing moment on the national state for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. [WKYT]

How dare Mittens Romney hire a known homosexual to do campaign work! The shame! Horror! [HuffPo]

Calumet Farm finally sold for $36 million. Guess the claims that it wasn’t being sold were flat-out lies. [H-L]

Have you ever wondered how a police agency chooses their police vehicle? The answers vary and obviously depend on the needs of the agency regarding the type of service delivery and geographical terrain that they routinely patrol in. [Rodney Brewer]

How crazy is it that a truckload of Jim Higdon’s Cornbread Mafia was STOLEN? Hoo boy. [Crumbled Cornbread]

Adam Edelen isn’t mincing words when he discusses Richie Farmer or his corrupt former appointees who put thousands of lives at risk. [Ryan Alessi]

Today Papaw Beshear appointed John Phillips to the Horse Racing Commission, replacing John T. Ward. [Press Release]

Months before Barack Obama knew Mitt Romney would be his political opponent in 2012, the president knew the identity of his foremost literary challenger: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Maraniss, who had been reaching out to Obama’s old friends, classmates and lovers for the past several years. [Politico]

From Bear to Lehman: Documents reveal an alternate history. [PBS]

The Securities and Exchange Commission seems to think that it has done a much better job of investigating financial crisis wrongdoing than the Justice Department. And it’s true. But it’s like being proud that you’re the “Dumb” of “Dumb and Dumber.” [Pro Publica]

These green innovations aim to feed a world of 9 billion people. The United States should take note. [Reuters]

U.S. alcohol retailers find law changes are hard to swallow. The US consumes more bottles of wine than any other nation in the world. But almost 80 years after the end of Prohibition, buying a drink can still be tricky. [BBC]

Ugh, two people died in an Eastern Kentucky house fire. We wish the region could receive some good news for once. [WYMT]

Two former Kentucky attorneys were properly convicted of scamming their clients out of $94.6 million from a $200 million settlement over the diet drug fen-phen in a case in which “evidence of the defendant’s guilt was so overwhelming,” a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. [H-L]

Oh, lookit, Mittens Romney’s rich buddy wants hipsters to be investors or something, for America, because they apparently caused the economic disaster. [Wonkette]

What on earth is going on in Louisville?! Fights breaking out and videos of people having sexual intercourse with a horse?!?!?! [WAVE3]

Poor old Reeeeechie Farmer just got his butt ripped – again – by an editorial board. This time, he deserved every bit of it and more. [C-J/AKN]

Mitch McConnell and the Chamber of Commerce are telling the Supreme Court to double down on Citizens United. [Think Progress]

Kentucky court workers will be furloughed three days this year, closing courthouses statewide on Aug. 6, Sept. 4 and Oct. 15, Chief Justice John D. Minton said Wednesday. [Bluegrass Politics]

Payroll provider ADP says that businesses added 119,000 jobs last month, far lower than a revised total of 201,000 jobs in March. [NPR]

Let’s take a look at the 18 most memorable Newt Gingrich moments! Put on your adult undergarment first, though. [Politico]

Why did it take almost 30 years to stop the NYPD from arresting thousands of poor, mostly black, people under three void laws? And what kind of similar situations are happening in Kentucky? [DoNY]

Big purses, sore horses and death. Large payouts to owners make it profitable for owners to field thoroughbreds that are past their prime, sometimes with fatal results. [NYT]

A Lexington attorney, who helped others defraud hundreds of people out of millions of dollars as part of a nationwide and international investment scam, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison. [WLEX18]

The wife of a North Carolina state senator reportedly told poll workers during early voting Monday that an amendment sponsored by her husband was intended partially to protect the Caucasian race. [HuffPo]

Did Richard Beliles finally wake up from his nap? ALEC is the least of the issues he should be complaining to Jack Conway about these days. Not that ALEC is puppies and rainbows or anything. [C-J/AKN]

Danville police arrested a man after he crashed his van into two buildings and then hitched a ride away from the scene Tuesday night. [WLEX18]

The poor economy is tied to a rise in domestic violence incidents, according to the latest survey. [HuffPo]

Mitch McConnell won’t be in Warshington to have funtimes with President Barack Obama and the University of Kentucky Wildcats on Friday. He’ll be in Kentucky playing horsey stuff– i.e., wining and dining people who will make him even richer. [The Hill]

Even the Frankfort paper is alarmed at the severity of Richie Farmer’s shenanigans. Still sad watching him fall apart. [State-Journal]

Mining minerals from astroids sounds crazy. Could it work? Is this what Newtpooper should have been talking about instead of his moon stuff? [The Economist]

Space commander Newt Gingrich has issued a special sad secret video communique from space with terrifying news from the future: “I want to take this opportunity to give you an insider advance notice that…” — WHAT IS IT, WE HATE SUSPENSE — “…on Wednesday, I’ll be officially suspending the campaign.” [Wonkette]

A man in Frankfort was arrested for being on Washington’s most-wanted list. Unfortunately, he was not a legislator. [H-L]

Lawwwwd, you can’t even go to Walmart in Georgetown these days without getting robbed in the parking lot. Tell your meemaw to watch herself! [WKYT]

Aww, Mittens Romney was ashamed that one of his aides/advisors was super-gay. Everybody feel sorry for him, because the gay. [WaPo]

This is how embargoes should be used, state government folks. Only when there’s a serious threat to security. [HuffPo]

Now you know why there was so much drama with the Lexington fire chief. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Lexington fire department’s employment practices, city officials confirmed Monday. Susan Straub, naturally, is being dishonest with her response. The city has been aware of the investigation since its beginning – not just since April. [H-L]

Whattya mean Steve Beshear’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services fired someone because they were gay? Like you didn’t see that coming. Unfortunately, Kerri Richardson lied just like Susan Straub did. Steve Beshear’s entire office – including the governor and his wife – have been keenly aware of this case and the facts involved. Primarily since it’s all his gay staffers have been able to talk about for weeks. [C-J/AKN]

MOAA had its members “storm Capitol Hill” last week to urge legislators to block the Pentagon’s proposed reforms. But close analysis of the proposals from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Joint Chiefs of Staff reveals that their critics’ arguments are baseless. [Politico]

Glencore — founded by famous fugitive Marc Rich — has cornered the market on just about everything. Now that it’s going public, will its ties to dictators and spies stand up to scrutiny? [Foreign Policy]

Yep, here’s yet another death/murder story about Laurel County giving Clay County a run for its money. [WKYT]

Ted Nugent is so mad that Fort Knox canceled his concert because he believes he is an American hero. [Wonkette]

No, Crit Luallen isn’t running for the U.S. Senate in 2014 against Mitch McConnell. She’s – according to her people and those who work for Jack Conway – talking to Jack about running as a gubernatorial ticket, however. Crit doesn’t want to be in Frankfort all the time so running as Jack’s lieutenant would give her more freedom and flexibility. [WFPL]

President Barack Obama’s campaign sought to make the death of Osama bin Laden a central part of the U.S. presidential election on Friday with a video that questioned whether Republican rival Mitt Romney would have made the same call to approve the mission that killed the al Qaeda leader. [Reuters]

Forget the teabaggers when it comes to taking on Mitch McConnell. There’s not even a solid Democrat who can take him on. [Politico]

Have you seen the reaction from Richie Farmer’s attorney? It’s actually sad to examine. What a hot mess that side is. Saying the audit is political and self-serving – ha. [H-L]

Nina Rhodes-Hughes, a key witness to the Robert F. Kennedy assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968, is making bombshell claims in a CNN interview, suggesting that convicted murderer Sirhan Sirhan didn’t act alone. [HuffPo & CNN]