Tour de France: Is it Over Yet?

Is the never-ending Tour de France over yet? As if anyone cares. Forget biking. We have great athletes in the US participating in more interesting sports events. An 88-year-old Wisconsin great-grandmom competes in triathlons. She got ready for the Minneapolis triathon last week by doing push ups. Of course, she won in her age group. Everyone else her age was also pushing up ... daisies.

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Disney Studios just announced it will cut 650 jobs, about 20% of its staff.  But the news isn’t all bad. Dopey and Goofy have already been offered jobs with FEMA.

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While most states are trying to keep God’s name out of schoolrooms and everywhere else, Jeb Bush’s Florida officially made "In God We Trust" its state motto. Well, at least its better than the one suggested by the state’s senior citizens: E Pluribus Kaopectate. Or, a motto my Arizona-lovin’, Floridaphobe spouse suggests: Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get out of Florida!

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The terrible heat continues, and is really bad in Hollywood. It's so hot there, Pamela Anderson had to install air conditioning in her implants.

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To give Marine recruits more experience in realistic brutal combat training, maybe the Corps should shorten their boot camp from eight weeks to just a dangerous day or two working for Naomi Campbell.

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Some people say pregnant women have a glow of beauty about them. Maybe so in most cases, but have you seen recent photos of expecting-again Britney Spears? With the mucho added weight and newly blackened chopped hair, Britney now looks like she’s channeling Mama Cass.

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Ted Sherman is a retired corporate PR manager and executive speech writer. Today he's a humor and travel writer, and occasional contributor of jokes to a major TV comedy show. He's a graduate of the University of the Arts and the University of Penn Grad. School of Communications, and a US Navy veteran of WWII and the Korean War.