Do you want to be in a dark alley with this man?

Jesse 'the Body' Ventura, former Governor of Minnesota is fuelling speculation that he may enter the tight Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Al Franken. Ventura don't like either candidate and feels he could offer a better choice - " If you were in a dark alley, who would you want to be there with you?" Ventura said when asked if he would consider running for the seat.

I don't know about you but I usually don't pick a candidate by how I feel about being alone with them in dark places.

Here's your Today in History

On the Fourth of July in 1850, President Zachary Taylor snacked on cherries and milk while attending a ceremony at the Washington Monument. It was a hot day, and the heat made him sick.

He got sicker and sicker and died on July 9.



He remains the only U.S. president to have died from indigestion (with the posible exception of Warren G Harding, who may or may not have been poisoned by his wife - which could be considered death by extreme indigestion - but that's another story.)

His last words were, "I regret nothing, but I am sorry to leave my friends."

I find it hard to believe he didn't regret eating the cherries-and-milk that caused his fatal indigestion, but I'm not going to quibble with a man's dying words.

July 9, 1952 -
Musical genius and all-around renaissance man John Tesh is born in Garden City, New York.



July 9, 1980 -
Seven faithful are trampled in a stampede during a papal visit to Brazil by John Paul II. I gues that doesn't count towards his sainthood.

July 9, 1982 -
Michael Fagan, dressed in jeans and a dirty t-shirt, and bleeding from a fresh cut on his hand, walks into the private bedroom of Queen Elizabeth II while she is asleep and her personal guard out walking her dogs. Fagan had scaled the wall surrounding Buckingham Palace and gained entry without triggering any alarms. The two carry on a 12-minute conversation, while the intruder holds a jagged broken ashtray, before somebody finally apprehends him. Who knew that Queen could carry on a 12 minute conversation with one of her subjects?



July 9, 1997 -
Mike Tyson banned from boxing for one year, and fined $3M for biting Evander Holyfield's ear off in a mysterious cajun ritual.



And so it goes.