'Guest': "This is substantially cheaper than daycare."

Yeah?..Well SOME of us don't need daycare!

Ed T,
Ed T, An interesting perspective, which may relate to my earlier thread to Jim Carroll. Note that I am not attempting to get into the other discussion- just providing something for consideration that may relate to "the great puzzle", that likely has no simple "one size fits all) answer.

I'm aware of the perspective of your link...and I'll take you one further... Latent homosexuality...and there is a lot of it, Women dressing to impress other women, men trying to impress other guys by being 'more macho', when those are taken to extremes....

Steve Shaw: "I have several gay friends, some of whom are in relationships and some who are not. I have even more friends that are in live-together setups for who marriage is an irrelevance. I love 'em all."

Well, if you 'love them all' encourage them to get tested, so the number in 'all' won't decrease!
....as far as:
Steve: "The missus finds this very amusing but I always riposte with the "use or or lose it" argument."

Most of your posted are pretty indicative of that...you've lost it and are still trying to use it!

Joe Offer: "I think the BS section of Mudcat has shown itself to be well-nigh useless, just a place for people to be nasty and show their worst attributes."

You think??...I think that if one scours the posts, there is PLENTY of good lyrical material content....I know...I've given you all a ton of them!
(Which, in one of my earliest posts, I said I'd do!)~~~(wink!)....

AND, there is this GEM from a guy named 'Joe'...

Joe Offer: """If I understand him correctly, Jesus says that all Scripture is to be interpreted with two basic laws in mind:

    Love God above all things
    Love your neighbor as yourself

If you keep these two principles in mind and remember that they may not be violated under any circumstances, the rest of Scripture starts to make sense - and it's impossible to honestly move to the extremes of interpretation.""

....and you have been quoted!!!!

Thank You...!!!!

GfS