to fall for The Rules is no man I would want to be saddled with.

Kate, the column was right on and your tips for "catching" a man are hilarious. I've subjected my husband to just about everything on your list but yeast infections and he doesn't show any signs of going anywhere (and he says both my cooking and temper are better when I'm not on a diet, so yay).

Marriage isn't something you can manipulate. The guy either wants to marry you or he doesn't. If he does, he will, if he doesn't, move on.

This is how you depict women in their 30's? As some unattractive grandmother type with bad hair? I guess a photo of most of the 30 somethings I know wouldn't show quite as much of a contrast between them and the Twilight actors, but I assure you, there is a big difference between 30-something and 70.

For the reminder. I got laid off from my first lawyer job and have not been able to find legal work since. I've since found "part-time" employment (the only thing part-time about it is the salary), NOT as a lawyer. I'm frustrated and angry most of the time.

Articles like this remind me that *sigh* I'm luckier than most.

And to the previous poster for whom everything is sunny and he knows NO ONE who is out of work: The majority of my friends can't find jobs at all. Some of my laid-off friends are in their late 50's. Who is going to hire these bright, hard working women? No one, it seems. Some are my age, with, like me, only a year's experience under their belt before the layoffs came and law partners took advantage of the recession to hire way more experienced, also desperate lawyers who will work for what I got paid as a first year. And my student loans sit in deferment, and I have no idea when, if ever, I will pay them.

I was told: get an education, the best one you can. You'll always have a job. I, and countless others, was sold a false bill of goods. You know damn well the government is really going to do anything to bring jobs back. The least they could do is erase our student loan debt, because I'd have been better off without my fancy education. At least then I wouldn't owe six figures that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

When I saw the photo, I only thought how nice she looked and that it was nice to see someone show off non-fake looking boobs. How do we know it was photoshopped? Her clothes on Mad Men are fairly un-revealing. Maybe this is really how she looks with no bra on.

Another comedy in which fat, unattractive, not too bright men are paired with gorgeous little hotties. Proof that men of this very description are the ones green-lighting projects.

Hey Hollywood, news flash: women don't want to look at out of shape, unattractive idiots any more than men want to look at their female equivalent.

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughan haven't been funny (or even marginally attractive) since Swingers. And what female actress would even have a career after letting herself go the way these two have?

Yes, that's right. Shallow: not just for (some) men anymore. If you can't give me a decent plot (and it sounds like this one fails), at least give me a good looking guy to watch.

Are exactly why I left that shithole state and never looked back.

And when I say two parents, I do not mean exclusively two parents of opposite gender. Just two parents who can share the load, regardless of sexual orientation.

Because since I was a mother at 19, I knew I would be constantly screaming "You're making a horrible mistake!!!" at all the girls with the exception of Catelyn, who it appears showed some sense in placing her child for adoption.

Although I did beat the odds, (finished college, got a doctorate), it was enormously hard on me, and even harder, I would imagine, on my child.

Raising a kid as a stupid, immature teenager has made me extremely conservative in my beliefs on childraising:

It should be done by TWO parents, who have finished their educations, are both financially independent, and have the time and love to invest in their kids. Anything else is selling the kid short. Would my kid have been better off raised that way? I love him enough to acknowledge the answer is yes.

Your idea seriously cracked me up. Thanks for the laugh I got when picturing the trailer possibilities. :-)

Should have their dicks cut off. Period.

Not as rude as "harlot," "whore," etc. "Cheater" doesn't work, because really, he's the cheater, not her so much. She's not exactly ethical, but all the venom should hardly be reserved for the person who did NOT break marriage vows.

"lover," "paramour" gives the relationship more legitimacy than it deserves. Too Harlequin, star-crossed romancey than they deserve, particularly in light of his chronic hypocritical moralizing. Note to GOP: if you're going to be a manwhore/airport bathroom pervert/hooker hirer, you might want to save your sermonizing for the audience in your bathroom mirror.

As for an appropriate name to describe him, nothing printable comes to mind.

You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

My prayers go out to the family. Maybe they should have prayed yesterday that he didn't, you know, die.

People who say shit like this are stupid. Not that I had a high opinion of these people, anyway.

elective procedures should not be covered.