And the addiction some people have to fighting and make up sex is kind of scary. Not to cite Mad Men as anything worth emulating, marriage-wise, but that scene where they get physical, end up having wild sex on the living room floor, and Megan says "every time we do this it diminishes us"? Yeah, that's how I feel…

Love.

I would actually pay to see real life Marines in full uniform plus fascinators. They could even be small, tasteful fascinators; I'm not talking Royal Wedding Toilet Seat style.

A lot of people have drawn a connection between the current pope's emphasis on the world's poor and his coming from Latin America. I mean you contrast that with the Spanish and French clergy who tended to be actively political and strongly conservative, and it's sometimes hard to believe it's the same church.

That was my first reaction, too. I can picture him cheating on a Tiger Woods scale.

Some people have argued that they're natural Republicans because of Catholicism. I think that's an oversimplification because a) they, like most other immigrant groups - for that matter most groups in the western world - are secularizing, but more importantly b) the Catholic Church in Latin America had an extremely…

Glad to be of service.

When you find yourself rationalizing this sort of thing, it should send up a red flag.

Interesting that you're so comfortable dehumanizing someone else to make your point.

Right. Or even discuss white privilege using Kate Bosworth as an example. This sounds petty and nasty and personal; it's the kind of screed that miserable, angry people write, not the sort of analysis and commentary that people with a valid point write.

Nothing says "cool kid" like launching a gratuitous hate campaign, right?

OK, that's in line with what I'd read and picked up. Thanks.

And I couldn't believe Matthew wasn't there, because I feel like I know dozens of them.

My kid's class: a Jayden, Hayden and Kayden.

Madison meaning, of course, "son of Matthew," which is the other reason I loathe it beyond reason.

Interesting. My mother vetoed certain diminutives of my name because she said "I cannot imagine anybody saying 'all rise for Chief Justice Trixie' or 'I'm your surgeon, my name is Tisha,' etc.

I find that extremely surprising. I have very limited exposure to the south (is Texas considered the south? Did I just insult everybody accidentally?) and my area is not domestic politics, but I would have thought immigration would militate in the other direction.

I think he's 27. Because duh, all helicopter owning and flying, international billionaires who started off in slums have made their fortune by then, right?

My money is DFATD.

Thank you for telling your story.