Sunday, July 24, 2005

The Tour de Iraq Now that Lance Armstrong has retired from professional cycling after winning his record seventh straight Tour de France, MSNBC speculates on what he'll do with the rest of his life: Now he is looking ahead to turning 34 in September and new horizons: everyday life, the fight against cancer and maybe -- so far, it’s still just a maybe -- elected office. "To me politics are about fighting for what you believe is right," he said Thursday. "I’ve always done that on the bike, on a purely sporting level, but also on another level." That's just what the world needs, another Texan in the White House -- although Armstrong couldn't possibly be as Headstrong as the reckless fool currently occupying the Oval Office. Who knows, having devoted so much of his life to cycling, maybe he'll now support re-cycling and conservation, rather than trashing the environment and maintaining that "the jury is still out" on global warming. And if politics is show business for ugly people, is it also sports for overweight people? 11:08:58 AM