Dirtbags, Diapers, and Chicken Shit.

That's a pretty high bar to set for one post. There's a lot going on there. Let's start with a timeline:

Thursday: Scenic River Commission accepts a $1.1 million donation from a poultry industry lobby. For those of you keeping score, that donation is equal to about 3 times the budget of the commission. A donation like that coming on the heels of Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson's announcement of a lawsuit against the poultry industry because their operations fuck up our rivers seems very strange. But the SRC voted 7-4 to accept the payoff...er...donation.

Tuesday: Rep. Tom "Bugman" Delay (R-TX) finally gets indicted for some shady campaign finance dealings and, despite the protection he was promised last November by his Republican colleagues, he stepped down from his Majority Leader position.

This very day: 1) John Roberts confirmed by the Senate and becomes the new Chief Justice of SCOTUS. There it is.

2) CASA BONITA IN TULSA IS CLOSING AT THE END OF THIS WEEK. This is the end of an era, my friends. I know a lot of you will say good riddance. I know a lot of you will lament the fact that our local Casa Bonita always lacked the cliff divers those rotten bastards up in Denver always bragged about. But this is a loss of a local institution.

I'll admit the food, with the obvious exception of the sopapillas, was pretty bad and horrendously overpriced, but where else could you engourge yourself with enchiladas in a cave, or next to a waterfall, or a Mexican courtyard and be seranaded by a Mariachi band, and play a game of skiball? Tulsa's Casa Bonita has been in business since 1971. There's a good story in today's Tulsa World Business section about the restaurant (I don't do deeplinking, so you'll have to check it out for yourself).

The Jobey Poll
Other than the dirty diaper incident, what is you most memorable Casa Bonita moment?