Good one. I didn't read the Times story closely, so I didn't catch any of this, and evidently other Freepers were fooled, too.
We all know that the culture has a lot of rot. Good to know it isn't as bad as the Times would like it to be. No doubt every new divorce delights them.
I don't think it is fair to say that we here were fooled as much as it is pertinent to remember that this site now has a zealot for every fashionable non-mainstream notion to come down the pike and to argue with this sort serves only to prove the admonition against arguing with a fool.
If we are guilty of anything, at least we old-timers, it is being polite to a fault allows for fictions to become factoids.