Oh no! Brilliantly, some crossed wires resulted in us writing two separate articles about the same event. Whoops.

Celebrate independence by celebrating mind-control! Go check out the one-day-only "PROPAGANDA III WORLD TOUR" (it's capitalized in all of the PR materials, so you know it's legit). They've collected hundreds of political posters from all over the world, and hung them at the Phoenix Hotel's Bambuddha Lounge at 601 Eddy Street. The display's open today (the fourth) only, from 2pm to 6pm, accompanied (as the original propagandists surely intended) by "ART + MUSIC + POOLSIDE HOLIDAY BARBEQUE." Yay caps!

The selection appears to be dominated almost entirely by lefty liberal causes, which San Franciscans may find utterly boring: we don't need to be brainwashed by the very people we already agree with, thank you very much. You will probably not find your preconceptions terribly challenged by the "Protest the War" poster, or "George War Bush." And "No martyrs in sea of blood and amniotic fluid" is the funniest political slogan we've heard since "do it, lumpy."

But on the other hand, this "give awesome machine guns to Frankenstein-bunny" poster is strangely compelling.