Engaged people aren't married. If engaged people without children can't get along, they should end it. That's what being engaged is about. It's not actually a time to make plans about caterers and have dresses fitted, it's a time to figure out if you really want to do this after all, because after you've done it, it's much harder to walk away.

I completely agree with those who have said that they have sympathy for Dee and it sounds like a stressful situation, but I can't repeat often enough that a spouse who behaves badly under stress is a bad spouse. There are people in the world who are kind of bitchy in everyday life, but when the chips are down those people shine. And that's who you marry, because when things are just peachy, you will be fine on your own, but when the air conditioner breaks and you can't really afford to repair it and the kid comes down with something that involves a lot of vomit and then you get the call that your mom is in the hospital in another state and they think it was a stroke can you get there before morning - that's when you need somebody.

Seriously, great context! Love you guys.

Kitchengirl, I agree that some people are naturally very thin yet healthy. Carol Lay is, by her own admission of what she has to do to stay at her current weight, not one of those people.

(I can't help but imagine this said in the voice of a scenery-chewing character actor on the Andy Griffith show)

"It is safer for the American people to keep committed terrorists at a secure facility hundreds of miles away from our shores rather than in facilities located in or near American communities," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky.

"...because if you put those prisoners in the prisons they might break out and TEAR YOUR HOUSE TO PIECES!"

(Cut to Aunt Bea, looking flustered and terrified.)

You mean this clown is the Senate Minority Leader? What in tarnation is wrong with Republicans?

Ahem. Sorry. Had to get that out of my system.

GO OBAMA!

Never ever marry a sunny time lover. Almost anyone can be good-tempered when things are good, but life is not all sunshine. When you need a spouse most is when things are bad. If she behaves this badly when things aren't that bad (you aren't starving, you aren't homeless, you're just a little restricted), then what is she going to do if you are in an accident and break both arms and she has to wipe your ass for two months? What is she going to do if your child gets cancer and you both have to squat in a hotel in Memphis, TN, for two years so she can get treatment at St. Jude? What is she going to do if there's a tornado, a fire, a lawsuit, a market crash... or even if the downstairs bathroom floods and ruins all the carpets and the insurance won't pay off on it until next month? Because something will happen. The way life works is that SOMETHING happens to EVERYONE sometimes.

Do not do not do not marry this person. Be very very grateful that you have seen her true colors before it was too late.

Sometimes lives really do hang in the balance, not just for you, but for everyone. It's inappropriate to think you have godlike powers, but also inappropriate to mistake people for art supplies. There are real people out there (assuming you're not making up your letters) and those real people sometimes act on your words, for better or worse, so it's only common decency to try for better and not worse.

I think you're a good guy who mostly does good work, and I agree that sometimes your detractors (including sometimes me) say things that are in no way called for. But man, dude, that was just a wrong thing to say.

I disagree with you. Although "pro-abortion" is misleading and incendiary, "anti-abortion" is strictly accurate. The activists are opposed to abortion. They are not "pro-life," since they make no efforts to save or encourage life in general.

Oh, serafin.

Three members of my immediate family are in the NSA and half my family's friends are retired spooks or CIA guys. All are united in denouncing torture, not only because international law forbids it, but because they feel it results in bad information.

My father was a "military contractor" sent into Cambodia during the Vietnam war to rescue a medical team which had been kidnapped. He and his fellow officers routinely went down roads which might or might not have been mined by the friends of people they had just captured. And they managed, despite that, not to torture anybody. Their lives were at risk, directly, on that same day, and yet they obeyed the law, because that's the way decent people act. When was your life ever at risk? What kind of soldier or agent are you?

It's pretty damned cowardly to give up your morals before they are even tested - like throwing your wallet at a stranger before he ever pulls a knife or a gun. And that's what you have done.

Okay, I'm feeling generous, so I'll return the favor and pray for anti-abortion activists. I pray that someday they'll come to value human life enough to understand that it's not something that should be engendered lightly. I pray that someday they'll realize that keeping women as slaves for nine months is not, in fact, What Jesus would Do. And I pray that they come to truly believe in a God larger than themselves, who can handle his business without their help.

What's cool is reading the comments on the referring articles and seeing not one single troll standing up for this lady's right to assault people.