The Week

■ Former pro wrestler Jesse “the Body” Ventura won the Minnesota governor’s race, running as an independent, and only polite things will be said about him in this space.

■ Byron “Low Tax” Looper, Republican candidate for state senate from the 15th district of Tennessee, was arrested in the homestretch on charges that he killed his Democratic opponent. Meanwhile, both Al D’Amato and Chuck Schumer came out of the New York Senate race alive. Gotham goes soft.