Government drilling and Government slicing

We heard from Iran today that they are appointing an oil minister. Here in the US, we don't have an oil minister, we have the President, who last week started to drill for oil on the West Lawn of the White House ~ it's important, after all, to boost domestic production. The oil rig set up on the West Lawn does not look like a rig. It's disguised as a big Christmas tree, and in the summer will just look like a big Doug Fir.

In Denmark, the parliament has decided if countries can have oil ministers, they can have a cheese minister. Last Friday, they appointed Olaf Gundarsson as cheese minister. As he was sworn in, he made a joke that wouldn't it be good if there were also a crackers minister. There were a few muffled laughs, and then the minister for cheese said he had to be off to visit a dairy farm.