Louis Butts is running for mayor of Harrisburg.  Well, after tomorrow he won't.  Mostly because no one's going to vote for him, but also because he was caught spraypainting unflattering graffiti on a rival candidate's campaign signs.

From Pennlive:

Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico said a taxi driver saw Butts and another, unidentified man defacing a Papenfuse sign at the corner of Cameron and Herr the night of May 11. The taxi driver followed them to another location, where they defaced another sign. The cab driver got the license plate number of the SUV the men were driving.

And my favorite sentence from the article:

The impact on the outcome of the election is negligible, as Butts was polling somewhere between zero and 2 percent.

Wonder how, exactly, Butts was defacing the signs?  I'm so glad you asked.

UPDATE: In this video from ABC27 (embed won't work here, Butts "apologizes" in a rambling six minutes that concludes with Butts declaring himself "resilient, brilliant, and humble".

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ABOVE: A serious artist doing it for the craft.

It's okay if you didn't watch the Billboard Music Awards. Why would you?  There are eight million awards shows, and these are based on Billboard charts that have already been published, so you already know the winners (who were mostly Taylor Swift.)  The only important thing that happened last night is BIEBER GOT BOOED, in a clip that's both hilarious and infuriating.  Feel free to skip the first minute or so before Beeb's speech:

You know what?  That speech was so good, I'll go ahead and transcribe it:

"I'm nineteen years old, I-I think I'm, uh, I think I'm doing a pretty good job.  And basically, from my heart I-I-I really just want to say, it should really be about the music, it should be about the craft, about the craft that I'm making and...  this is not a gimmick, I'm not a - this is not a gimmick, I-I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously and all this other bull should not be spoken of..."

WELL HANDLED, Mr. Bieber.  By demanding that millions of people take you more seriously, while wearing Sheriff Lobo glasses indoors, haters will have NO CHOICE but to re-think their approach.  And telling millions of people that something 'shouldn't be spoken of'?  ALWAYS WORKS.

By they way, Biebs, you've reached the point in your life where you look exactly like Vanilla Ice.  EXACTLY.  I'm sure he also felt his craft and art weren't being taken seriously enough.

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Eleanor Roosevelt was not only our longest-serving First Lady, she was also our gun-totin'est.  Historical records show that, while First Lady, Roosevelt personally stopped two presidential assassination attempts and held off an invasion by the Hessians. (Note: I made both of these facts up)  But check it out - Eleanor's gun permit from 1957, which for some reason confuses uses the numeral 1 instead of the letter L:

Now why did I feel the need to post a picture of Eleanor Roosevelt's gun permit? BECAUSE, THAT'S WHY.

Next week: Ladybird Johnson's Dave & Busters Power Card.

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Count me among the people completely sucked into Downtown Abbey.  So far, we know only two things about the upcoming Season 4 - that it won't start until 2014, and that the show will add its first black cast member.  Today came a bombshell - that cast member would be none other than Sean 'Puff Daddy' 'P-Diddy' 'Diddy Dirty Money' Combs.  

Well, not really.  But this video is MUST-WATCH for fellow Downton fans: (WARNING: PROFANITY)

Notes:

1. "Downtown Abbey"

2. "Budgely Shumpert"

3. Diddy's home is decorated with rustic wood planks.

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