And Ted Kennedy can do a Mean Figure Four: Quote of the Day 7/9

"All you Minnesotans take a good hard look at all three of us. And you decide: if you were in a dark alley which one of the three of us would you want with you?"

- Jesse Ventura on his qualifications to be a US Senator. It looks like Ventura will challenge Republican Norm Coleman, whom he defeated for governor in 1998, and comedian-turned-political commentator-turned- candidate Al Franken for Minnesota's Senate seat.

Clearly, the good people of Michigan employed the same criterion when electing Senator Debbie Stabenow.