Apparently the most thin-skinned politician on the planet--Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, is SO pissed that he wasn't enthusiastically received by the crowd last night, and at Rick Kahn's speech, that he and his wife WALKED OUT on the memorial service. Yes folks, our esteemed governor walked out in a huff when things got "political".

Today, The Body announced on a local radio station that he was so furious at the Wellstone camp, that he would appoint a non-Democrat to serve the interim period in the Senate.

That's the spirit of thin-skinned spite and revenge to which we have become accustomed with Minnesota's governor, of course.

And the Republicans are not only screaming "foul" and demanding "equal time" (for a memorial service?) because the Wellstones had the audacity to hold a memorial which actually dared to honor the spirit of their father's legacy, rather than kowtow to the political sensibilities of their father's political foes.

Everyone I've talked with really felt the memorial did the job. Allowed us to be fierce in our grief, try and pick up the pieces and soldier on, and get a sense of closure doing it. Just what we needed. I felt a lot better after it was over, which is just what a memorial is supposed to do for the living.

And so it goes here in Minnesota today folks.