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Here’s a nice drawing by the White House “Dean of Correspondents,” Helen Thomas, that you can buy for three figures on eBay. Or you can, you know, do anything else. But all of the money will be donated to sick people with… neurofibromatosis! So just buy it, now. [eBay]

Here is John McCain, dressed in a Budweiser-NASCAR costume, with his $100-million-dollar wife, who owns Budweiser, and NASCAR hero and Iraq War promoter Dale Earnhardt (Junior), the president of the Confederacy. MORE »

* Presidential hopefuls travel to Las Vegas this weekend to IM with voters. [Think Progress]
* If it costs $950 to have lunch with Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, then it must cost at least two grand to not have lunch with them. [Charitybuzz]
* Movie-line jokes about Fred Thompson’s candidacy to wear thin rapidly. Laugh now. [Vodka Pundit]
* The Other 85 U.S. Attorneys keep truckin’ along in their partisan hackaday lives. [Robert Reich]
* Doing things like letting Jack Abramoff out of jail. [Guardian]
* Tom DeLay didn’t write or read his own book. [Political Wire]
* Bill O’Reilly’s hatred of NBC will be tested. [Intoxination]
* Why is James Inhofe such a dick? [Firedoglake]

Friday
* Beaujolais Nouveau party at the Alliance Francaise. Simone Marchand and the Mediterranean group Gibraltar will perform. $32 at 6:30PM. [Alliance Francaise]
* Bob Dylan at George Mason. $59.50 at 7:30PM. [GMU]
* Joanna Newsom is sold out. [Black Cat]
Saturday
* Amy Millan (Stars) at the Black Cat with Eric Bachmann (Crooked Fingers). $13 at 9PM. [Black Cat]
* Brazilian Girls DJ at the Rock and Roll Hotel and local designers display their clothes. Free before 10PM, $10 after. [Rock and Roll Hotel]
* Brian Wilson performs Pet Sounds in its entirety at the Warner Theatre. $55 at 8PM. [Ticketmaster]
* Kegs For Kids is an annual party that benefits the US Marine Corp charity Toys For Tots. This year’s party is at the Hawk ‘n’ Dove. $25 goes to kiddies and gets you unlimited Bud from 7-11PM. [Toys for Tots]
Sunday
* Last day of The Bluest Eye at the H Street Playhouse. $26 at 2 & 8PM. [Theater Alliance]
* Taiwan’s Three Times at the Freer. Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Three Times is about three couples in different eras, all played by the same two actors.
Free at 2PM, tickets required. [The Freer]

• Israel’s #1 Hip Hop group Hadag Nahash. $20 at 8PM. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. [Sixth and I]
• The Glover Park Whole Foods will donate 5% of its proceeds to benefit sick kids at Georgetown University hopsital and others around the country. Today only. [Hope For Henry]
• Panel: “Where do students’ rights to free speech stand today?” Includes Mary Beth Tinker and many others. Free at 7PM. Archives. [Archives]
• Hott Beat, Big Digits, Person, Donna Parker, Naomi, Jesse Petersen at the warehouse $8 at 8:30PM [WND]
• Political juggernauts Matthew Dowd, Doug Sosnik and Ron Fournier sign Applebee’s America at 5:30PM. 2550 M St, NW. Food, drinks. Strangely, doesn’t seem to be at an Applebee’s. [Applebee's America]