1. Elizabeth Fechtel had to relinquish the Miss Florida crown she won on June 21 to “runner-up” Victoria Cowen after pageant officials determined there had been a tabulating mistake. “Sucks, don’t it?” said Al Gore.
2. Border patrol officials in Southern California are sending reinforcements to Texas to help deal with the surge of immigrants illegally crossing the border. “Now’s the time!” said Canada.
3. Last week, Amanda Longacre was stripped of her Miss Delaware title after pageant officials determined that she had violated the age requirement. But, on the plus-side, since you’re no longer Miss Delaware, you’re free to leave Delaware.
4. Actor Shia LeBeouf was arraigned on Friday on charges of disorderly conduct stemming from his disruptive behavior while attending a Broadway play. Which shouldn’t come as surprise because, as anyone who saw the last Indiana Jones movie can attest to, he doesn’t know how to act properly.
5. A Maryland woman who ordered a meal at a Sonic fast-food restaurant found a bag of marijuana in her French fries. But, since she made the conscious decision to go to Sonic, she was probably high to begin with.
6. A Maryland woman who ordered a meal at a Sonic fast-food restaurant found a bag of marijuana in her French fries. Even more surprising, a Taco Bell customer found actual beef in one of her tacos.
7. A California family is exasperated after a 64-year-old woman they hired as a live-in nanny stopped working and refused to move out of their home after being fired. Or, as Arnold Schwarzenegger thinks of it, a threesome.
8. A California family is exasperated after a 64-year-old woman they hired as a live-in nanny stopped working and refused to move out of their home after being fired. Said one British family, “You think that’s bad, one day, out of the blue, our nanny just up-and-left, flew away holding her umbrella.”
9. On Friday, “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane pledged up to a million dollars to the Kickstarter campaign aimed at reviving the children’s program “Reading Rainbow.” Which can only mean one thing, last week the Simpsons donated one million dollars to “Reading Rainbow.”
10. California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed into law a bill that clears away possible state-level obstacles to alternative currencies like bitcoin. Said Brown, “Hey, it’s California, everything’s fake anyway.”