[xsmommy]

Remember this. It is useful to reflect in moments of unguided passion that, beneath the skin, we are all wet bags of unpleasant organs.

LOL!!!!!!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Quoth Tom Waits:

All my friends are married
every Tom and Dick and Harry
you must be strong
to go it alone
here's to the bachelors
and the bowery bums
and those who feel that they're the ones
who are better off without a wife

I like to sleep until the crack of noon
midnight howlin' at the moon
goin' out when I wanto, comin' home when I please
I don't have to ask permission
if I want to go out fishing
and I never have to ask for the keys

selfish about my privacy
as long as I can be with me
we get along so well I can't believe
I love to chew the fat with folks
and listen to all your dirty jokes
I'm so thankful for these friends
I do receive

[anniegetyourgun]

Each one doing what is right in his own eyes.....live for self....

AGYG <----shaking head....it doesn't look good for our society when we leave young men with such advice.....

[AppyPappy]

Also posted here

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

One thing missing here. God. Christianity takes a whole different point of view. One lives for the benefit of God, his wife and children, not for himself. It is a matter of choosing one way or the other. One leads to life eternal, the other to eternal damnation.

[That Subliminal Kid]

I have to wonder what life gave Fred Reed in the package called marriage? Sounds like he got royally screwed and wants to believe everyone is going to receive the same raw deal. I just spent the weekend with some couples who are very happy, some of whom have been together going on 30 years. I'd say this Fred Reed fellow is probably a good candidate for suicide judging by some of his pessimistic musings.

[mc5cents]

Ah, the old "Why buy the cow when the milk is free" philosophy. To quote the German soldier on "Laugh In"; "Verrrrrrrryyy interesting... but stupid!"

Thanks just the same, but we don't need any more self-centered, egotistical jerks in the world. We have met our quota. All filled up.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Marriage is the best institution for raising the next generation of humans beings.

[Life of Brian]

beneath the skin, we are all wet bags

Ohhhh YES! Silky 'WET' golden corn silk. (trembling all over)

[boris]

"while men are far uglier than women, they age better"

How old do I have to get before I become handsome? I'm 51 and time's running out.

I'm ready to be a babe magnet, but for some reason the magic isn't evident.

--Boris

[john in missouri]

I take a different view. But then, I also believe in God, homeschooling, abstaining from sex before marriage, family, and a lifetime commitment. And I know there are at least a few others out there who do as well.

[SoDak]

I'm sending this to my parents in hopes they someday finally get off my back.

[MEGoody]

This fellow will follow his 'heart' and never marry or have children. That would be a blessing for all of us, but a curse for those silly 'liberated' women who are so fond of trying to be 'manly' by having sex with anyone with three knees. (left knee, right knee and wee. . . )

[Phaedrus]

Women are more eager than men to enter marriage, and more eager to leave it – with the kids, the house, and the child support. It won't be amicable, not after seven years. You will be astonished at how ruthless she will be, how well she knows the law, and how utterly hostile to divorcing fathers the law is.

Some of us learn this the hard way. And today, thanks to the feminists, many young women are incredibly selfish.

[Pining_4_TX]

Mr. Reed is a major league clymer. He'd better stay away from my daughter or I'll shoot the sumb!$ch myself, and this is mom talking. This kind of immoral thinking is what happens when man abandons God and worships himself and his own thoughts and appetites. I wouldn't want to be handcuffed to this jerk when he dies.

[Chemist_Geek]

A young fellow might do well to stay single, keep his DNA to himself, pick such flowers as he might find along the way, and live his life as he likes.

Stay single, yes. Pick flowers, yes. Live life as he pleasea, yes. But, my younger brothers, please don't keep your DNA to yourselves. Give to sperm banks, and let Humanity continue to grow...

I am patiently awaiting the commercial introduction of women-androids. That would solve all my problems. (Except, perhaps, the excess weight.)

[orrick]

What a column.

[Djarum]

ping

[shaggy eel]

,,, this piece made for interesting reading. Loved some of the terminology! However, the bottom line is that it's good advice - "buyer beware". I settled for my idea of Moon Pie and lasted for almost fifteen years. Moon Pie now lives with my dad and my two kids. She got the $330k home, the Volvo and ongoing child support via my earnings. I don't mind paying the child support payments as they're my kids. The rest however, were paid for out of me working a day job and two part time jobs - before the kids were born. The State's desperation to be the father thru the welfare system and the free legal aid to go on fighting are things that men can't compete with. The family unit isn't a viable proposition for many and that's the result wanted by the feminists who control the Family Courts and their agenda.

[AdamSelene235]

"Marriage is a commitment of several years of your life, plus child support," I would say. "Do not make it rashly."

The way I've heard it phrased is: "Instead of getting married, just find some woman you don't like and buy her a house."