She's still at it, still thinks she is "it" and it is still 1991 and Madonna has a limo waiting outside for her. So much of her act was bashing "has been's". Now her own "sell by" date is over 20 years old. Sometimes you do get what you deserve - she is now the very person she made fun of all those years ago. Her biggest gig of recent was as a dinner guest on The Food Network at Rocco's de Whatever's apartment. She tried to get snippy, "funny" words in at every turn, but it was all the same old yarn. She couldn't merge into the dialouge traffic from the off ramp. Everyone else was there to just talk about food, be nice, have a good time and NOT put on a "greatest hits" show. She sank! My freind put it on to DVD for me because it ws so sad/funny to watch her. Never call anyone a "has been" Miss Sandrah B. YOU wear the crown so very well and snug now.

Kharma sometimes REALLY does "git" ya.

On May 17, 2004, the first legal same-sex marriages in the United States began taking place in Massachusetts. In the eight years since then, 18,462 same-sex couples have wed in the state, according to MassEquality. As of 2009, 28 percent of Massachusetts married same-sex couples were raising children, and 93 percent of them reported that their children were happier and better off as a result of their marriage.

Where is he these days?

has any one particularly helped you in your life?

you how important you are to them. They display idolization, then a few days later cast you aside. One minute friendship, like, or love, the next week, rejection. Anyone experience this with a BPD friend or lover?

Apparently suggesting that the ruling party in South Africa is corrupt is fine as long as you don't make a mockery out of President Jacob Zuma's penis. You see, there's a collection of works called "Hail to the Thief" being shown at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, and according to Reuters' Peroshni Govender one image, by artist Brett Murray, goes a little too far in exposing Zuma. "The African National Congress wants the Goodman Gallery to remove a painting of Zuma called 'The Spear', which depicts the president with his genitals exposed, and another work that has a 'For Sale' sign superimposed over the party logo," reports Reuters. It's a little silly, yes, and considering the types of artistic outrage that galleries have experienced over controversial pieces of art--maybe we shouldn't be laughing. "It's making a mockery of the highest office," ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu told Reuters. Mthembu said the artist was within his rights to express himself but said "The Spear" was "vulgar" and ridiculed President Zuma's stature. You'd think since Mthembu felt so strongly, he'd have the whole collection banned right? After all, isn't the whole collection pretty much ridiculing the president? Obviously (thankfully?), the gallery isn't stepping down. "We feel it is censorship to take the image down,” gallery spokeswoman Lara Koseff said in a report from The Mail & Guardian. Gallery director, Liza Essers, added: "It is a sad day for South Africa when creative production is being threatened with censorship from our ruling party." And people like it! Reuters is reporting it's already been sold! A copy of the painting is at the link. Personaly I don't see the problem, it's not like the artist painted the president with a micro-penis

Painting of South African President's Penis Creates Controversy

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 HOUSTON CHURCH TO MARRY GAYS If Episcopal Diocese OK’s Gay "Blessing" By JOE GOMEZ The Bishop of the Texas Episcopal Diocese named St. Stephens Episcopal Church as the first in Houston to be allowed to offer ceremonies for same-sex covenants. It's a move that anti-gay activist Pastor Tom Brown, thinks goes against the teachings of the bible. "The first thing Jesus said about marriage is that god made us male and female so this would be completely contradictory to our lords own teaching," says Brown. Brown thinks that many people will be leaving the Episcopal Church if it approves same sex marriages, but Noel Freeman with Houston's GLBT caucus disagrees. "I think it's a perfect exercise of freedom of religious expression," says Freeman. The State of Texas does not recognize same sex marriages legally so this would be solely a ceremonial move.

St. Stephen's in Houston to perform same-sex covenants

I'm just wondering how one goes about making that choice. Did you just decide that you were tired of putting yourself out there for rejection? Tire of the bar scene? Wanted someone who would just leave when it was done? Did you call a service or answer a Craigslist ad?

Call it survival of the slowest: Extraordinarily old, bizarrely low-key bacteria have been found in sediments 100 feet below the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean, far removed from sunlight, fresh nutrients and what humans would consider anything interesting to do. Some of these organisms, scientists say, could be at least 1,000 years old. Or maybe millions of years. Their strategy for staying alive is to be barely alive at all. Their metabolism is dialed down to almost nothing, an adaptive advantage in a place with so few resources. The bacteria that survive are the ones that can satisfy themselves with minute traces of oxygen and a parsimonious diet of organic material laid down millions of years ago. Such buried bacteria have been found before, but a new study, published Thursday online by the journal Science, has provided the clearest look at their glacial pace of existence. The conclusion, in short, is that microbes can putter along at extremely low rates of oxygen respiration, their numbers limited only by the paucity of energy available in the buried sediment. “These organisms live so slowly that when we look at it at our own time scale, it’s like suspended animation,” said Danish scientist Hans Roy, a biologist at Aarhus University and the lead author of the study. “The main lesson here is that we need to stop looking at life at our own time scale.” An ancillary message is that human beings should not be too chauvinistic about what constitutes, or characterizes, a living thing. There are a lot more nuances to nature than scientists realized just a few decades ago. The ingenuity of life gives hope to researchers looking for evidence of life beyond Earth. Extraterrestrial life could conceivably be detected by robotic probes, for example, in the Martian subsurface, or in an ice- covered ocean on a cold moon farther out in the solar system. ‘Life in the slow lane’ Scientists now believe that much of the life on Earth is barely able to fog a mirror, as it were. The deep-sea microbes may be an extreme example of a laid-back norm. Most of Earth life, measured by numbers, is not rambunctious and charismatic like life in the sunshine, nor is it akin to the microbes that grow quickly in a laboratory petri dish. Rather, it’s kind of boring — living out of sight, below the surface, in total darkness, using energy slowly and efficiently. NASA research scientist Tori Hoehler, who was not involved with the new study but who has investigated such microbes, said, “I think this is a window into life in the slow lane, which, far from being a niche thing, is probably the average condition on Earth.” Only in recent decades have scientists come to realize that life on the surface is but the flashy veneer of the biosphere. Life, we now know, will find a way to survive in the unlikeliest places, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents and ancient salt deposits to Yellowstone’s hot springs. There are microbes living on aerosolized particles high in the atmosphere. But the subsea, buried bacteria demonstrate a form of extremophiles that are at the end of the spectrum of vibrancy.

Ancient life, millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor