You parents are old enough to have some semblance of maturity & responsibility.

Being bankrupt and moochin' off their misery-filled kid is not ethical.

Yes, everyone makes mistakes. But they need to understand that they must embark on a new path - back to better finances & independence.

Don't guilt-trip yourself about it: work on a 6-month plan for them to get their shit together...

And if they cannot - ditch them.

You - your finances and your peace of mind - will be all the better for it.

Dear Ms. Sey,

It infuriates me that you are (presumably) getting paid to be a writer by Salon - when clearly you're writing is amateurish and your use of grammar 9th grade as best.

Perhaps if you got off your high pummel horse and took a freshman English Composition course at a local community college, I might not act like such a horrible condescending jerk toward you for your plebian prose.

Let's be clear, though: you have no MFA in English. You are a jock. Know your place in the echelon of intellect, and please do not ever equate yourself with true, professional writers. You have no idea how many hundreds of hours we dedicate to our craft.

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By the way, did you ever win any gold medals at the Olympics?

Not even one?

So in other words:Are we to understand that you have as many Olympic gold medals as the armchair peon watching the games on TV?

Hmmm...you sure are one elite athlete, boy howdy!

(Tongue still firmly in cheek)

Where everyone bathes together, sleeps together, cooks meals together...

And if someone dares to think differently, e.g. they want to eat something else, or maybe take a private hot bath with a good book?

Off to ze re-education camp with 'em!

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It's delusional articles like these that make me thank the stars I am a Gen-X and later-era progressive.

....were the East German "female" swimmers in those 80's Olympics.

And if you look at any pics of her from her younger days, Torres' face looked a lot more...how you say, feminine-angled?

But yeah - keep believe she's clean if u want....so do your male friends all have a guy crush on Barry Bonds too, Kate?

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Ah well - at least Dara's voice has not turned into a deep male baritone from all her 'roid use.

Too bad about her jaw, though. I wonder if the guy with whom she conceived her child is latently gay? (You know, like Tori Spelling's husband.)

Looks like somebody's still all sore after flunking out of film-school because nobody gave a festering turd about their "vision".

Let's start the healing, Klytie-Whitie....tell me your vision.

Dazzle me with your entertaining motion picture idea, which makes all those howwwible, howwwible popular Hollywood movies look like "Biodome 2".

I promise I will not laugh at your would-be cinematic masterpiece.

I promise I will not fall asleep as you share your ludicrous story-arc and self-absorbed premises...

I promise I will not secretly watch Apple trailers for movies I actually want to see while listening to your film-school dropout vision.

I'll even wait patiently as you change the french fry oil at your job.

So tell me your vision, Kly-boy. Share with me your pain.

{Apologies to "Star Trek V"...which, having been popular, really sucked.}

We flyover-state denizens did not start the puerile name-calling.

I guess I finally got sick of my old friends who moved to/ live on the coasts scorning anyone in the Midwestern regions as being automatically conservative, Bush-lovin', Hummer drivin' yokel redneck scourges of humanity.

Please, you idiots - you are thinking about the South, not the Midwest.

So I'll be damned if I - a flyover progressive who could give a crap about "Gods, Guns & Gays" or any of that neocon bullshit - don't exactly bow down to worship at the Almighty Liberal Altar of the Coastals.

Sorry to hurt your tender feelings, though. Does Starbucks sell a sympathy card yet? ;-)

A simple plan for what to do:

1.) Look in the mirror long and hard - for as long as you take to realize that you are as EQUALLY GUILTY of bringing this woman pain as her cheating husband was.

2.)Write her an anonymous letter about the affair. Ask for her forgiveness - but also say you will understand if she does not grant it.

3.) Seek therapy. While there, work on why you made such a dumb, hurtful choice to ruin another female's life by consciously choosing to fuck her husband.

4.) Use therapy to try to become a good person...or at least a better one.

5.) Understand that karma is pretty darn real: Someday in the future, you will fall in love with someone.

You may get married to this person - and give them your soul and everything else you can possibly offer.

And they will cheat on you - probably with someone the age you are right now.

And you will learn how this woman felt.