Tomorrow, Dragoon Brewing and Boca Tacos want you to join them for great beer and great tacos to support the Tucson Fire Pipes and Drums band.

The event is set to kick off at 6 p.m. Friday, 'til 8, where Dragoon will be releasing Tartan 479, a Belgian-style Blonde ale. According to Dragoon, sales from the beer will benefit the TFPD Band:

A portion of every keg, growler and pint sold by Dragoon goes to help the Pipes and Drums in their mission of honoring their fallen brothers and sisters. It’s available on draft in our taproom and at select bars and restaurants in the Tucson area.

It is made from a blend of North American 2-Row and German pils malts, with a bit of Vienna Malt and unmalted barley. It is lightly dry-hopped with Cascade and Sterling hops and is fermented with a Belgian Abbey ale yeast. The result is a balanced Blonde ale—bready and toasty, with a lightly spicy sweetness and subtle fruity hop nose.

Boca also plans on running a special, offering two tacos and a pint of Tartan 479 for $10.

Tacos, beer and a good cause? Sounds like a good way to kick of the weekend to me.

Oh, John McCain. It's like you're getting even cheekier in your old age.

Sen. McCain, along with a handful of other Congressmen and Senators, is one of the backers of the COINS Act, which calls for the elimination of the $1 bill, replacing it with a $1 coin, as seems to be the trend in many a western nation these days.

Last year, The Hill's In The Know blog noted that at least one D.C.-based gentleman's club owner feels that the switch to coins might hurt business — both for him, and his dancers — saying that "you can’t put a coin in a garter belt," and "I think it would be very awkward for everyone involved. How much more would a coin weigh than a dollar bill? It would be very hard."

One would argue that varying degrees of hardness is the exact point behind strip clubs, but that's neither here nor there.

McCain, however, feels differently:

When pressed about the predicament facing scores of the country’s skin-baring and bill-collecting women, McCain responded without missing a beat, “Then I hope that they could obtain larger denominations.”

The 76-year-old lawmaker began answering another reporter’s prying questions before cracking a smile and hollering to ITK down a Capitol hallway, “Fives, tens, one hundreds!”

I'm with Johnny Mac (which I now contend to be McCain's preferred name when he's making it rain in the nation's gentlemen's clubs): Let the market sort out which strippers deserve to be "pocketing" $5 bills and larger, and which should be getting hailed upon with Sacs (which I now contend to be the appropriate name for the Sacagawea dollar coins).

As the folks at Andrew M Films note, apparently being a superhero isn't as awesome as you might think.

Interestingly, this reminds me of two different Superman-related things (since it's somewhat obviously parodying Supes): One being the "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" essay that posits the terrible consequences that would occur if Superman were to attempt to get down with a human lady (key phrase: "...with kryptonian muscles behind it, [Superman's] semen would emerge with the muzzle velocity of a machine gun bullet"). The other is this fairly badass clip from the Justice League Unlimited series, which you can check out below the jump.

If you are looking to do something different this weekend, you can head on out to the fourth annual Garlic Festival at Triangle T Ranch, 4190 E. Dragoon Road. The event will be benefiting the Wounded Warriors Project. The event is Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27 from 10 a.m. 'til 6 p.m. There will be a garlic cook-off, garlic food vendors, garlic recipes, live (probably not garlic-related) music, horseback rides and games for the kids.

This is a free event but there is a $3 parking fee. For more information check out http://www.azretreatcenter.com/garlicfest2013.html.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto YouTube ...

The University of Arizona football team has released another, ahem, promotional video shot at Old Tucson Studios, this time including a dozen or so impact players along with head coach Rich Rodriguez in an endeavor that probably stretched the wardrobe department to the brink to find Western wear that would comfortably fit linebackers and defensive tackles.

The biggest difference between this video and the previous (which featured only coaches, one of whom got 'tossed' out of the saloon) is the well-done splicing of game highlights from last season into scenes of the players moseying thru the swinging doors and posing, like all cowboys used to do.

Somewhat surprisingly, seeing as the football program has made every effort to shield Ka'Deem Carey from media attention (NOTE: he's not going to the Pac-12 Media Days, where you usually feature your star players), he is among the participants in the video.

In actual on-the-field news, the UA also announced today its training camp schedule leading up to the Aug. 30 opener against Northern Arizona. Practices begin Aug. 4, including a three-day sojourn to Fort Huachuca Aug. 8-10, and Media Day is Aug. 18.

The proposed initiative to scrap the city of Tucson's pension program is facing a legal challenge.

Attorney Roopali H. Desai of Phoenix-based Coppersmith Schermer & Brockelman filed the lawsuit on Monday, July 22. The suit alleges that many of the signatures on the initiatives should be invalidated for various technical reasons, including 6,713 signatures that attorneys allege were collected by people with criminal records whose civil rights have not been restored.

City officials have warned that the initiative could cost the city millions of dollars if it passes.

Pete Zimmerman, the political consultant for the Committee for Sustainable Retirement campaign, said in an email:

This is clearly an effort to obfuscate the issue. The petition effort was carefully conducted and the offices of the City Clerk and County Recorder rigorously examined the signatures, ultimately concluding that the submittal exceeded the minimum requirements by more than 40%. The 23,000 people who signed the petition deserve to see this issue on the November ballot. Let the voters decide.

Desai did not return a phone call this afternoon.

A court date has been set for Friday, Aug. 2.

This post has been updated to include Pete Zimmerman's comment.

Grijalva, a close friend of Ned Norris, the chairman of the Tohono O’odham tribe, is strongly opposed to a bill offered by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) that would bar the casino from being opened. Franks introduced a similar bill in the House during the last Congress. The measure was adopted by the House but later died in the Senate.

During a May 16 hearing in a Natural Resources subcommittee, Norris testified in opposition to the latest version of the Franks bill.

As Norris was testifying, James Meggesto [a lobbyist for the Gila River tribe] sent out this tweet: “Resisting urge to tweet about a pair of high school buddies, one is lying under oath and the other is on the dais enabling him #Indianlands.”

Meggesto’s tweet, without mentioning them by name, was clearly referring to Grijalva and Norris.

Grijalva was outraged by Meggesto’s tweet — since deleted — and has sought a public apology, so far to no avail.

Now Grijalva — whose leadership PAC received a $5,000 contribution from the Tohono O’odham tribe in August 2012 — wants Reps. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) and Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), the chairman and ranking member of Natural Resources, to act.

“I take the accusations of perjury very seriously, [and] I formally ask the committee to request that Mr. Meggesto or his employer present evidence of false statements made under oath. Absent evidence or proof, I request a formal apology to Chairman Norris,” Grijalva said in his letter to Hastings and DeFazio. “Organizations with business before Congress must conduct themselves in a professional manner and understand that slander — no matter the means of communication — will not be tolerated.”

Just this morning, I thought I had a pretty good life. Editor of an acclaimed weekly publication. Husband, father. But then I realized what my life's been missing. I discovered a hole in my heart that I didn't even realize was there.

Oh, Fezkitt, the "realistic ferret sim where you can raise, train, show, breed and interact with other ferrets and more," you came and you gave without taking.

Well, that's not entirely true. Fezkitt, with its 2,272 members and two Facebook likes, is currently invite only, so I'm forced to just dream of my opportunity to "work with original ferret genetics," but someday, I will be allowed into that magical world. And then - and only then - will I understand what it's like to have a dream come true.

This week's Skinny column notes that House Speaker John Boehner is adopting a kinder, gentler approach to the DREAM Act kids. The political calculation may be less about compassion and more about finding a way to undermine the Senate's comprehensive immigration-reform package, but Boehner and other GOP leaders are hoping to give the impression that Republicans don't hate all Latinos.

But Boehner's efforts to be more Latino-friendly have been undermined again by Iowa Congressman Steve King, who is offering the opinion that Latino kids are more likely to be drug mules than high-school valedictorians. Talking Points Memo reports:

According to Rep. Steve King's (R-IA) math, legalizing undocumented immigrants is untenable because for every valedictorian DREAMer — immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — there are 100 more who are carrying drugs across the border.

"Some of them are valedictorians, and their parents brought them in," King told Newsmax in an interview last week. "It wasn't their fault. It's true in some cases, but they aren't all valedictorians. They weren't all brought in by their parents."

"For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,” he continued. “Those people would be legalized with the same act."

King's comments drew a rebuke from Boehner, but King is standing by them—and getting support from Breitbart News, which notes that drug cartels are turning to minors to haul drugs across the border.

While cartels may indeed be recruiting kids to carry drugs, that hardly makes them hardened criminals. More likely, it makes many of them desperate kids who don't have especially good options or especially good judgment. And it's hardly the majority of kids who would be covered under the DREAM Act.

But King's comments go back to the argument raised some time ago by New York magazine's Jonathan Chait: Republicans are better off passing immigration reform quickly, because Republicans like King are going to say things that continue to alienate Latino voters:

The whole point of immigration reform for Republicans—other than, you know, helping people, which no doubt moves them very deeply—is to rebrand the party. A drawn-out immigration debate commanding center stage will simply create more opportunities for conservative Republicans to say offensive things about Latinos. And make no doubt: however diligently their consultants coach them not to, they will say offensive things about Latinos. So far we’ve had one Republican member call undocumented immigrants “wetbacks” and another publicly muse that some of them may be secret Al Qaeda agents.

And we’ve only just begun! A whole summer of this stuff could drive the Democratic share of the Latino vote into the 80s.

If you're into dick jokes and politicans making stupid decisions, I imagine that you're already a big fan of the latest Anthony Weiner situation.

Weiner, whose name is pronounced exactly like you think it is, is a disgraced Congressman who got that way by sending sexual text and picture messages (hereafter referred to as "fuck texts") to women he wasn't married to — he resigned in disgrace, everyone laughed because "Weiner" and then we forgot about him.

Then, he resurfaced as a candidate for the mayorship of New York City (one who we can assume would make sure New Yorkers could safely engage in various acts of sodomy, which is more than can be said for a certain candidate for Virginia's governorship) — and again, he's the subject of more rumors that he's sending fuck texts to women who are not his wife.

In fact, he even discussed the situation with the New York media, and held a press conference to discuss the fact that he has, in fact, sent out pictures of his penis to people, apparently under the name "Carlos Danger."

Anyway, the latest bit of joy related to Weinergate is the "Carlos Danger" name generator, which will help you determine a false name that may or may not work for your own particular sexual dalliances.