Congratulations to the Tigers’ Prince Fielder who won his second Home Run Derby last night with a whopping 28 home runs!
Tonight is the 83rd MLB All-Star Game in K.C. 7:30pm EST on Fox. Justin Verlander starts for the American Leaguers!
In what might set a celebrity record, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise have reached a divorce settlement just 12 days after Katie filed for divorce.
- Katie will get primary custody of 6-year-old Suri, and Tom will get Oprah’s couch.
- Tom is said to be dealing with the loss by reading Ron L. Hubbard’s book “Divorce-a-netics”.
Monday, a group of protesters in New York held a “Million Big Gulp March” to protest Mayor Bloomberg’s band on 32 ounce soda pops.
- It led to an “Occupy Pee” movement in public restrooms all over the city.
- City officials say they expect these kind of protests to “pop” up from time to time.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a theme song that was created just for him.
- Like him, the song is very short.
- If you’re the 10th caller in North Korea to hear the song on the 
radio… you win a free bowl of rice!
Due to a glut of soft shell lobsters, the price has fallen to $4 a pound, less than some deli meats.
- Guys his would be a good time to be a real shooter… take your wife or girlfriend out to dinner and insist she order the lobster!
More than 30 years after her passing, Natalie Wood’s death certificate has been changed from “accident” to “undertermined”.
- And under the Obama Affordable Care Plan, her death will not count as a pre-existing condition!
On this day in 1954 the first Elvis song was played on the radio on a Memphis radio station at 9:30pm. It was called “That’s All Right (Mama)”.
- At 9:32pm Father’s all over Memphis said “That’s Not All Right (Mama)!”
Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Wednesday! (My birthday!)
-Dick
We have four July Birthdays in the family (mine, my daughter Jessica, and both of her sons Preston and Jack) and we celebrate them all in one fell swoop! Sometimes we even celebrate them all in “one swell foop” which we did Sunday. We figured it had finally cooled off enough to put candles on the cake so we had the whole family over for a big party! There was a new guest this year… my daughter Julie and her husband Brad’s 5 1/2 month-old son Brayden. Pretty cute kid, huh?
A new study says that more doctors are falling asleep on the job these days.
- They’re falling asleep while reading the Obamacare bill trying to figure out how much their going to get paid.
- So now having “good bedside manner” just means your doc stays awake during your exam.
NASA released a high resolution photo of Mars taken by the Mars Exploration Rover “Opportunity”.
- It’s so crystal-clear you can actually see the swimming pool in Tom Cruise’s backyard!
- We can only hope they don’t release any high resolution photos of Uranus.
The annual “Running of the Bulls” kicked off in Pamplona, Spain this weekend. So far, three people have been gored.
- In honor of the event, the US Presidential Race had now been renamed “The Running of The Bull”.
A zoo in Indonesia is trying to help a monkey quit smoking after 10 years.
- Talk about trying to get a monkey off your back!
- He’d walk a mile for a camel, but they don’t have any camels at the Indonesian zoo.
Ernest Borgnine passed away over the weekend at the age of 95. He was the star of McCale’s Navy, played “Fatso” who beat up Frank Sinatra in “From Here To Eternity” and won an Oscar for playing the title role in “Marty”. Borgnine was married five times, including once to Ethel Merman, which lasted one month.
- He couldn’t stand the screaming.
Have a great day and I’ll see you back here tomorrow!
-Dick
P.S. Sorry about lack of pix today… system malfunction!
For today’s Post-4th-of-July Pre-My-Birthday Podcast, Jackie and I are joined by former “Purtan’s Person” Jim Ochs for a riveting discussion about everything from the proposed “Zombie Theme Park” in Detroit, to the Higgs Boson “God Particle”, to Talkiing Urinal Cakes. And speaking of bathrooms - the three of us ponder the all important question: Now that Obamacare has been declared a “Tax”, will IRS agents be giving rectal exams? (Then again… haven’t they always???) So pour yourself something cold and… bottoms up!
Have a great weekend and I’ll see you back here Monday with the blog!
-Dick
Purtan Podcast #49 (37:29)
Happy 4th of July! We’re taking tomorrow off… but will be back Friday with a new Podcast! For now, I hope you enjoy some great Patriotic American music!
Have a great Holiday and God Bless America!
-Dick
CNN’s Anderson Cooper, host of “Anderson Cooper 360” has announced that he is gay, after years of refusing to discuss his sexuality.
- Boy he really did a 180 on that one.
- In a related story, after years of speculation, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has announced that he is boring.
A smiling, soon-to-be-divorced Katie Holmes was seen waltzing around NYC after filing for divorce from actor Tom Cruise. Meanwhile Tom is said to be “reeling” from the news.
- Luckily he’s got a lot of supportive, robotic friends to help him cope.
- Look for all the details of their marriage in Katie’s upcoming memoir, “Scien-Tell-All-Ogy”!
A survey of employers in the US and Europe found that over 70% of bosses don’t really care if an employee is up to 30 minutes late.
- It’s not that they don’t care, they just don’t know since the bosses usually stroll in just before lunch.
- The exception is Domino’s Pizza where you have to deliver yourself to work within 30 minutes or less of your start time or your FREE… to get another job.
Fisher Price has announced the release of a children’s board game combining the levels of “Hindu consciousness” with daily chores for toddlers.
- This sounds even more fun that their last product, “Teenage Mutant Buddhist Turtles”.
- Up next: A game for Taliban Toddlers called “Shoots and Ladders”.
Some TSA workers in Newark were fired for sleeping on the job.
- Passengers complained they weren’t getting the “foreplay” they’ve come to expect and enjoy before boarding the plane.
- For some people, an “Invasive Pat Down” is the closest thing to sex they get!