By Stephanie B Goldberg
1. If your significant other has cybersex on Second Life, does that constitute adultery? If you’re like Amy Taylor of Great Britain, you don’t particularly care what the answer is – you just want the loser out of your life. And so Taylor has becomes the first woman to meet her spouse on a virtual reality site and later divorce him because his avatar couldn’t keep his virtual pants on.
2. Farewell to the world’s ugliest dog, although we understand there’s a new contender for the title.
3. You’d think that with a net worth of $490 million, Madonna would be able to tackle the job of building a school in Malawi without financial assistance from her fans. Wrong. Detroit’s answer to Mother Teresa is soliciting donations on her website for a girl’s academy that will presumably out-Oprah Oprah’s $40 million boarding school in South Africa. It’s designed to help girls “reach their full potential,” which we can only assume means learning the 3Bs: bustiers, bad acting and seven percent body fat. Three guesses what’s on the reading list.
4. Memo to self: If I ever visit NASA, do not drink the water.
5. I have a diabolically Rovian answer to the Republican party’s doldrums – Piper Palin in 2012. So what if she’s only seven – she’s a chip off the old block. Not even Katie Couric would give her grief for not knowing the signatories to the NATO treaty when she looks this adorable teetering in Mom’s high heels.
Posted on November 16, 2008