On how to get the house, both cars, full custody of the meal tickets (I mean children) and 50% of his salary as alimony. Meanwhile, the former hubby revisits the McJob wages and studio apartment of his college days.

It's enough to make we want to start my own Facebook campaign: Pre-Nup Awareness for Potential Husbands. Feel free to join, fellas.

Throw Poppy in the middle of Darfur, and have her try to find the source of the ganjaweed horde's pain and foul mood as they take turns gang-raping 8-year olds.

You are in the Jungle, Poppy; the pristine, beatific, 1% richest people in the world part of it...but you're in the jungle nonetheless. Your immunity to the true nature of the world manifests itself as ignorant bliss...good for you, eh?

because many men have kids with their wives FOR their wives.

Many fathers never really wanted that role - they gave their spouses babies as gifts to make the latter happy.

So this movie would only be worth seeing if the storyline had the two female leads lez out on each other? Because...what's that? A story involving straight people <8-O is just too uninteresting? Ah, I see.

Jesus Christos - the only way to satify a liberal's viewing tastes these days is to have a film feature tri-racial Chicano-African-Hmong bisexual, vegan Green Party immigrant little people who fall in love while working for the Earth Liberation Front...

And then even this movie would get criticized for not featuring a sufficient number of vision-challenged feminist Eskimos!

It never ends...

Some of the innocent people who died in planes & buildings on 9/11 were liberals.

They supported Palestinian freedom, did not support the American military industrial complex, and did not agree with US support of Israel.

Guess what?

The fanatical Muslim terrorists killed 'em anyway.

Reality check, folks: you may take turns patting yourself on the back about how wonderfully liberal, open-minded and non-racsist or non-xenophobic you are...

You may all congratulate yourself about having no problems flying with Arab Muslims...

And you may scream with outrage towards those conservatives who dare to be suspicious of Mohammeds muttering about emergency exits...

But you know what? When Mohammed and friends do indeed turn out to be bad guys and hijack the plane - and/or pull the bomb cord - being an open-minded lib is not gonna spare your life. Or that of your loved ones traveling with you.

They hate us all - no exceptions. From George Bush and Dick Chaney - all the way to Dennis Kucinich and Gloria Steinem.

These fanatical Muslims hate us all.

Yeah, even you.

The LW and her two men sound like the pretentious, psuedo-idealist pony-tailed grad student character in "Good Will Hunting" - remember him? He tried to score brownie points with Minnie Driver and her Ivy League friends my attempting to embarass Ben Affleck's blue-collar character...only to have Will Hunting / Matt Damon expose his alleged intellectualism as fraud.

Here in the my Midwestern town, folks lead much simpler lives. We don't aspire to cure the world's infectious diseases and then give up because, hot damn, that would be selling out to the Man! Nope - we go to med school or nursing school, and then proceed to do the best we can to help people.

We are not necessarily "intensely intelligent", and most of us will never earn a graduate degree in the Humanities or anything else. We are not the elite upper class illuminati.

AND YET: we meet kindred spirits amongst one another, fall in love, and get married. We do not see marriage as tying us down, or as some eeevil patriarchal scam from the (Burning) Man. Sometimes our relationships work out, sometimes they do not - but in the end we try to be honest and caring toward those who have our hearts.

Hell - we don't fret that much at all about the Man, "bourgeoisie" or any of those liberal academic boogeymen.

And we don't get so self-absorbed and egomaniacal that we fail to see that Love is about two people, not just the one gazing infinitely and adoringly at their navel...

Yup - love and life can be simple affairs. Unfortunately, no amount of graduate school or intense psuedo-idealistic intelligence can open the LW's eyes to this. Only good ol' common sense can guide you in the right direction, and that is one trait missing from all three players in this "Triangle".

Never marry or even become involved with a person from a different social class than you.

If you marry, as a previous poster termed them, an American Prince or Princess, the spoiled brat is going to demand you furnish them with the same expensive standard of living as their Mommies and Daddies provided.

And if you can't, like Paul Belger? Then odds are your pampered upper-crust spouse will drop you like a hot potato.

(Incidentally: I wonder if the main reason Marisa decided to stay in the marriage was to write about it? After all, it's hard for rich white American girls to find dramatic inspiration for their stories, seeing as their lives offer no real problems...Gossip Girl, anyone?...on which to craft tales)

Bottom line: middle-class folk are happiest with middle-class folk. And spoilt, coddled rich brats should just do the world a favor and pair off only with their pampered peers. I'm guessing this would tremendously decrease the divorce rate and so on.

After reading your posts, I can safely say:

Re your money problems: boo frickin' hoo. When you get evicted from your apartment, your medical bills go into collection and your "friends" desert you, then I will whip out my violin for you, O upper-class gentry.

Until then: kiss the collective working-class, blue-collar butt of the masses and I.