Tuesday, June 22, 2010

6-22-10

There is drama among the French national team after their coach dismissed striker Nicolas Anelka after being insulted by him in a profane tirade. The team refused to practice to protest that decision. Now there is talk that they may not even play their last game. It's like their losing their heads, which isn't surprising considering the French did invent the guillotine.

Amid scandal and in-fighting, the French national team has been eliminated from the World Cup after imploding in game three. Le bleu has now become les miserables.

Larry King hosted a celebrity telethon for the oil spill. All the money raised will go towards finding a cure for Leakemia.

A federal judge has ruled that the Interior Department acted "arbitrarily" when it issued a 6 month moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama is appealing on the grounds that acting on a whim should not be considered arbitrary.

Jerry Seinfeld says he hates Lady Gaga and called her a jerk for making a rude gesture with her finger at New York Mets fans. The most shocking thing about this is that there are actually Mets fans.

2 comments:

  1. I watch France's final WC match. Their manager, Domenech stood next to the bench looking like a sad old man waiting for a bus that was never gonna come.

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  2. Yes! And bafana bafana won! We're out of the World Cup all the same, but at least it isn't totally ignominious. One man's meat, another man's poison!

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