Today is Senator Al Franken's 65th Birthday!!
Happy Birthday, Senator, and here's hoping for many, many more!!
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the good fight. And keep smiling! 
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Should post this too:
Al Franken is commander-in-chief on 'Jeopardy'
Al Franken might be getting used to landslide victories. Two years after easily retaining his U.S. Senate seat,m the Minnesota Democrat tested his brain power on a celebrity edition of “Jeopardy” that aired Thursday afternoon.
It was no contest. From nearly the get-go, Franken had the edge over his competitors, political strategist Ana Navarro and ABC’s Sunny Hostin, thanks to his knowledge on everything from which states have legalized marijuana to the theme song from “The Flintstones.”
In the end, Franken racked up more than $20,000, nearly double the amount earned by runner-up Navarro.
Producers bolstered his total by pledging $50,000 to the charity of his choice, the USO.
http://www.startribune.com/what-is-al-franken-doing-on-jeopardy/380154661/
Senator Franken could handle Trump.
One of the more ironic things is that he wrote a satirical novel, "Why Not Me?," out in 1999, which he peopled with real political figures but which "slandered" himself as an accidental president with very serious emotional and mental problems--almost prescient considering Trump's current, but then completely unthinkable, proximity to the Oval Office.
How truly bizarre it must be for Franken to now find himself 17 years later one of the political figures surrounding an improbable nut case in this new real-life satire on American elections. It'd be better if he were a major character, though, instead of an outlier making a minor appearance here and there.
