Larry Craig, Mark Foley and Eric Massa Walk Into a Bar...

Former U.S. Senator Larry Craig, former U.S. Representative Mark Foley and former U.S. Representative Eric Massa walk into a bar...

I haven't figured out a punchline for that joke, but I think it's pretty damn funny as it is.

And if you don't follow the news, here's an abridged biography on each of the "walk-into-a-bar" folks.

Craig is a former Republican politician from the state of Idaho. He served from 1991-2009 in the U.S. Senate, until he got caught in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport tapping his foot on the floor of the bathroom stall--something that apparently indicates you're interested in having gay sex--by a plainclothes police officer, Sgt. Dave Karsnia. In addition to tapping his foot on the floor of the stall, Karsnia, in a report he filed, said Craig peered through a crack in a restroom stall door for two minutes and made gestures suggesting to the officer he wanted to engage in "lewd conduct." Craig would later plead guilty to disorderly conduct and and subsequently resign from his post as a U.S. senator.

Mark Foley is a former Republican congressman from Florida who resigned in 2006 as a result of "questionable conversations" between himself and congressional pages, which took place between 1995 and 2005.

And Eric Massa, the third party in this "three-guys-walk-into-a-bar" joke, is the former Democratic U.S. representative from New York who resigned, just days ago, "amid an ethics inquiry into allegations that he groped and sexually harrassed some of his male employees over the years," wrote Michael Scherer for Time.com. He's also the same guy who claimed to have tickle fights with his male colleagues, and to have been accosted in the shower of the House gym by none other than White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Massa told a local radio station over the weekend, “I’m sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest... Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?”

Um, no. No, I don't, and I'm pretty happy with that.

I talked with a friend of mine today who told me a New Yorker friend of hers was having a helluva time scraping the Massa bumper sticker off her car. Yeah, I can understand the implications of having that sticker on your bumper...

But you know, all joking aside, if anyone ever wants to hire me to work in Congress, I am so there. I mean, if you think my blog is interesting now, just imagine what it could be like if I worked alongside people like Massa, Craig and Foley. 'Cause even though those folks are gone, you know there's more out there that's just waiting to be discovered. As the Daily Show's Jon Stewart put it, it'd be like "opening Al Capone’s vault," although unlike Stewart's rendition of that event, there'd probably be far more in that vault than just a dog-eared men's fitness magazine.

So, for those of you who don't follow the news, aren't you upset for not having followed it this week? 'Cause to me, this is far more entertaining than Oscar night ever hoped to be!

And hey Facebook, where's that new Tickle Fight application?