The cluck you say? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a 20-page appeal with Metro government after the city denied a permit allowing the temporary display of a 5-and-a-half-foot tall statue of a crippled chicken, which would’ve scared too many convention-goers at its proposed Fourth and Market Street location. According to The Courier-Journal, the fight might move to a federal court, which isn’t excessive at all.

On Monday night, your esteemed congressional legislators gathered on Waterfront Park’s Great Lawn under a giant air-conditioned tent to talk about things they should be doing in Washington, D.C. In essence, it allowed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to dog and pony through a series of economic legislative measures without addressing the obvious problem: rich legislators eating a taxpayer-funded dinner on the Ohio River.

The Kentucky Fair Board has negotiated a multi-million dollar deal with Delaware-based Six Flags that would give the board a controlling stake in the defunct Kentucky Kingdom property, meaning that heat-and-velocity-induced vomiting might become a Louisville pastime once more. This paves the way for local developer/Kingdom buyer/hero Ed Hart to deliver a financing plan to the Fair Board, which can’t happen soon enough. The new park is slated to open next Memorial Day.

Sex. Lies. A sullied booth at Porcini Restaurant. Yes friends: The Rick Pitino-Karen Sypher Spectacle of Sordid Chicanery is under way, and the gross-o-meter is off the goddamn scale — Sypher’s unedited April 2009 FOX 41 interview was recently played for the court, and in it the accused extortionist claimed the Louisville men’s basketball coach told her to “shut up and be quiet” before having sex with her. “I, for some reason, couldn’t say no to this man,” she said. Neither can this city.