Hell-ooo Washing-tuuuuuuuuun!

Give it up m-f's (Mulch friends) for yesterday's kickin' laugh confirmation hearing for agriculture secretary nominee Ed Schafer of North Dakota!

What a crazy testify-in par-tay it turned out to be!

You got your weather gags. Your madcap food props. (Peanuts in North Dakota? Are you out of your Mulcher-friendin' mind?!?) And that whole Jesse Ventura t-shirt slogan thing still kills:

Showing his support for the nominee, Dorgan told the committee he had only known Shafer to back down from one challenge in his life, when Minnesota voters elected former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura as governor and began wearing T-shirts with the slogan, “My governor can beat up your governor.”

Shafer seemed understandably nervous, Dorgan said, when some North Dakotans made shirts that read “Our governor says prove it.”

You want funny? I say, you want funny? Well they got it, all up in that Senate agriculture committee. ("Humor Part of the Process", The Jamestown Sun, Jan. 25).