Well, I guess this is one idea on where Tommy might go next, but I still like my idea better.

From the Green Bay News Chronicle's Tom Booker:

Right after Tommy called it quits (apparently having cured all the nation's health woes and given out all possible human services), I called my old buddy, Tommy's brother Ed, at his Tomah bar and restaurant.

"Hey, Eddie," I said. "Wazzup with your bro? Where's he gonna hang now?"

I discovered Ed is still smarting from the fact that his kid brother wouldn't endorse him when Ed ran for governor two years ago. "I'll tell you what he's NOT gonna do," Ed said. "He's not going to come around here, because if he does I'm gonna kick the livin' snot out of him, just like I did every other week when we was kids."

"So, now what?" I asked. "Wazzee gonna do?"

"Act," said Ed.

"What?!!"

"Act. I'm serious. Right now, movies featuring mob-type guys is a boomin' industry. They're always lookin' fer people who look like thugs and talk like thugs, and fer some reason, they've approached my baby brother for a couple of parts.

"Hell, I'm even offering to let them use my joint as the scene for one of their shoots. I can see a guy getting capped right next to the jukebox. It'd be great. I'd get a cut, of course."

You heard it here first, folks: Best Supporting Actor for 2005 - Tommy the Tommy-Gun Thompson. Hmm ... Republican actors ... where have we heard THIS before ... ?