It saddens me that so many women have embraced the wedding industrial complex. It's one damn day — concentrate on the actual marriage part.

I think the women who spend their lives dreaming of their wedding day and planning enormous fairy tale affairs before they've even met the person they want to marry have messed up priorities. The wedding should be about starting your married life. It shouldn't be about me, me, me - it should be about us, us, us. Our…

Major General Salinas may have opened doors for those who followed her, but unless she had a time machine, I doubt that she did so for her antecedents. I applaud your desire to use a rich vocabulary, but I deplore your failure to use the word properly.

The guy who taped women in the shower was a sergeant first class (E-7), so he was neither an officer nor particularly "high ranking."

Then we're talking about two different things.

Just stopping by to roll my eyes at the commenters who are snarking the pastor's appearance and making assumptions about his sexuality.

No, we do have a culture of caring, but like any other group, we have institutional weaknesses, blind spots and make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are epic in scope.

That doctrine has been around a long time. And, just as an FYI, Popes can't change doctrines and dogmas at will. That is a misconception.

Yeah, I get that these articles are written by people who mostly haven't passed 30 yet, but John Mayer isn't fit to lick Keef's guitar strap, wear his skull and crossbones ring, or tie any of those weird things into his hair like he's been doing for the last few years.

Yeah, get back to me when John Mayer can serve up a beat down on stage and then go back to rocking without missing a beat.

I see nothing wrong with people voluntarily committing to abstain from viewing porn and doing so publically to keep accountable. Abstaining from porn does not equate to suppressing healthy sexuality in my opinion. I love sex, but I do think the culture has taken a turn for too much mainstream porn influence and dont…

The verb you're looking for is "canonized" rather than "anointed." That being said, John XXIII did a great deal to bring the Catholic Church into the 20th century and eased the lives of many by doing so. It's easier, though, to just write up a little snark and not do any research.

That does not work for people who never have kids.

I don't think there's a huge number of people who resent helping out when a co-worker is in a pinch. Rather, the problem is with the person who has some kind of emergency regularly and expects others to pick up the slack. If those constant "emergencies" are related to lack of planning then it can be annoying whether…

You do realize that you just totally made that assumption up, right?

You don't have to feel one shred of sympathy for her to recognize that giving in to a desire for vengeance (rather than punishment) is not healthy for individuals or societies. It may feel good in the short term, but that still doesn't make it right.

This individual case isn't the point. The point is highlighting the death penalty machine in Texas. This statistic undoubtedly includes the execution of procedurally compromised and innocent defendants, all in the name of being tough on crime rather than being right on justice. I'm definitely not with Texas in that…

As some in Congress tried to point out, leaving the decision about bringing criminal charges in the hands of the military itself is ridiculous. Why aren't they subject to the same kind of criminal law, when stationed in the US, as everyone else? A friend of mine, who happens to be a Catholic priest, pointed out that…

The other day, I read a story about Mickey Rooney going through ladies like a hot knife through fudge.

Neither of my parents ever roughhoused with me. Clearly they were remiss in their parenting.