Still not convinced that K-lo isn’t actually Sara Jane Teasedale.

K-Lo reminds me of italophile Dave from “Breaking Away”. She’s obsessed with the idea of marriage, but she’ll probably never get within 5000 miles of it, and actual married people find her pathetic and creepy.

Gee thanks, Kathryn! Can you give me advice on how to raise my kids, too? Since you seem to know everything about relationships and family and all, you must be qualified, even if you’ve never experienced any of it.

I do not doubt you in the least.

I’m sorry, Kathryn, marriage does not need a team manager.

Somebody’s lady garden bears only forbidden fruit on untilled soil.

As a former Catholic, this doesn’t surprise me in the least. Receiving marriage/child rearing advise from the never-married-childless is routine in the church.

Hey K-Lo, even your NRO colleagues cringed at that one. Go find some self-awareness, you dumbass.

I see Pope Nazi the First is giving his two-weeks-notice that he’s had enough of this graft, and is ready to retire to a life of good wine and hot boys.

Maybe K-Lo could be the first (allegedly) female pope. Hey, it could totally happen! Fer realz!

Gee, K-Lo, thanks for your heartfelt concern, but you’re inconsistent, not credible, perhaps a tad hypocritical:

http://www.catholicpulse.com/cp/en/columnists/lopez/032111.html

Shorter K-Lo:

Although I’ve never been invited to a party in my life, I hear the ones where you drop your keys in a fish bowl by the door are fun and good for your marriage.

K-Lo, that photo of your soul-mate just to the right of comment #4 above…it’s nothing short of serendipitous, I tells you.

Every once in awhile, a post and its comments come along that are sheer perfection. This is one of those times. Bravo.

Do something to support marriage, to make it plausible

“Plausible?”

Plausible means “believable” or “likely” or “credible”. Make marriage plausible? Would anyone’s world-view of marriage include the idea that the problem is it’s not believable?

Or does she just not know what the word means?

This woman is an editor?

We need to teach marriage. We need to live marriage. We need to support marriage. We need to help clear roads to marriage. Each one of us plays a role in rebuilding a marriage culture.

Katherine, you keep using that word…

the problem is it’s not believable

Oh, Mrs. LittlePig clears up that sort of thing first thing in the morning. “You’re going to fix that sink today, believe it.”

… drop their kids off for the night some night, invite some single men and women

Watch out for unintended consequences. If you invite the single men and women over on the same evening that those small kids get dropped off, you may end up convincing the single guys to get vasectomies.

**raising my hand** What the hell is “marriage culture”? Do I need a petri dish?

In addition to everything else wrong with that article, how about sloppy, incoherent writing? Ugh. It’s awful.

“invite some single men and women from work or church to dinner with some others for dinner.”

Huh?

This woman edits?

I was going to hit a martini bar tonight, but having dinner with a bunch of men and women from church sounds so much more fun.

Maybe K-Lo could be the first (allegedly) female pope.

Uh, “mome.”

Make marriage plausible? Would anyone’s world-view of marriage include the idea that the problem is it’s not believable?

Weird, huh? Let’s all strive to make marriage suitable! We’ve got to teach marriage, live marriage, babble marriage!

K-Lo is only 37? She has the soul of a ninety-year old nun.

I’m holding out for Karen Armstrong or Elaine Pagels as the first lady pope.

If K-Lo really wanted to find an example of a real loving marriage she needs to look no further than the current family that resides in the White House, although the family living there is on the dole, living in tax payer paid housing.
Darn welfare queens and their dead-beat husbands.

K-Lo is only 37? She has the soul of a ninety-year old nun.

I dunno – the 90-year-old nuns I’ve known are pretty shrewd people. Sister Mary Horrible, there, sounds more like a bitter 40-year-old nun who’s just coming to terms with the fact that her life hasn’t worked out the way she desperately wanted.

I confess that after reading this post this morning I laughed. I confess that after reading the Corner, Breitfart and Huff Po regarding Naziberger retiring I laughed some more.

Then I realized how sad K-lo and Donohue must be and I nearly shit my pants laughing.

If I were a g-dly man I would probably feel guilty for gleefully enjoying the sadness of others, but I am not a catholic so screw that.

Oh, hell, K-Lo, I think that’s a swell idea. I know a wonderful recently legally married lesbian couple who have been together for decades and are doing an amazing job raising the greatest kids in an atmosphere of love & compassion — they could probably use a night on the town, so why don’t I offer to babysit for them… wait, what? That’s not quite what you meant? Oh, so sorry. Perhaps you’d care to be a little more explicit about your definition of “marriage culture,” then — or might that brand you too publicly as the clueless bigoted bitch you are?

…shut the fuck up and tend to your own lady garden.

Uhhh…I get the feeling that K-Lo’s “lady garden” is a mess of untamed wild growth, IFKWIMAITYD. Or as one of the Sadly commenters once speculated, not irresponsibly, about a hook-up between K-Lo and Loadpants in a hotel at one of the CPAC or other conferences they attend (or perhaps aboard the Failboat), “it would look like two brillo pads fighting over a hot dog…and not just fighting, but fighting TO THE DEATH.”

Uh, yeah. Sorry about that; it’s just one of those things that’s just so horrible that it must be shared in order to spread the pain around. That image is like having a hair stuck at the back of your throat that you can’t dislodge, only it’s in your brain instead.

K-Lo just sounds bitter & desperate. Has no one informed K-Lo that all those gay guys who decide to marry one another will never ever be interested in her anyway? Sounds like not too many straight dudes wish to hoe that row, either. Wonder why… not so much.

Lots of good paying jobs with good benefits, paid parental leave, and more job security would probably be a major asset in promoting marriage. Money is the most common cause of divorce and what keeps many people from marrying. Also providing welfare benefits to married people (instead of just to single moms) among the working poor would also go a long way to increasing marriage.

Frankly, the less I contemplate K-Lo’s Lady Garden, the happier (and less nauseous) I am.

33 comments in, and no one has pointed out the name of the linked column: “K-Lo @Large.” Come on, people, you’re slipping.

Yea, and the “free market” determines that she gets paid multiple six figures each year for her talents and accomplishments. See, the unfettered free market will always promote the cream of the crop and pay them accordingly…Those Republicans are so smart!

And speaking of Republicans falling on their asses…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JyGyhn1YX8

Dear Miss Lopez: STFU. You are ignorant.

Friday night and Saturday Mr. X and I spent with the grandson, the most fun thing in the world. Sunday we went on a date, visiting an artisan books event and a nearby museum and eating apple pie. Today I slept late (we’re retired) while Mr. X took his car for an oil change. He came home and we talked about news items and then laughed some and now we’re doing other stuff.

At the end of February we will have been married 34 years. This is what you don’t know about. Marriage happens, and long marriages happen when the people like and respect each other and they don’t listen to people like you who have some 5-year-old’s vision of happily ever after. What Dr. Dick @32 said is all true, you might want to check on that.

The postal carrier today came and went without bringing our notice that we have to split up because gay people who love each other as we do are participating in married life. If you can’t tell me when to expect that official notice, then go back to bed and weep into your pillow alone. The rest of us are laughing.

Hillary needs a new gig…

This woman is an editor?

Well, considering that it’s for NRO, otherwise known as the worst site on the web… Bless her shriveled, illiterate little heart.

I’ll cast about 1000 votes for Elaine Pagels, but she’s not RC. (She was a member of my Episcopal parish back in NYC. Absolutely incredible woman.)

You made that comment and didn’t even offer brain bleach? Jeez… a tiny bit of compassion is all I’m begging for here…

Well, K-Lo, pay attention. The Secretary of Defense of the United States of America is building a marriage culture:

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/02/11/16928387-panetta-extends-same-sex-benefits-throughout-the-military?lite

Perfect!

Uh, what part of Arkansas do you want the ‘win the internets for a day’ prize delivered to?

Huh. I usually get a more satisfied feeling from reading one of your comments, as though some part of the world still makes sense….too tired now to muster up a good “Thanks for THAT mental image….”

Kathryn Jean Lopez is clearly a closet case-clearly. That wouldn’t be a problem except for the fact that she’s such a self loathing, lying hypocrite about it. I imagine she prays daily and for everything she’s worth to stop salivating over Ann Coulter.

Dr D! Very glad to see your fonts. Feeling better then?

Excellent movie, but c’mon, Dave’s not as annoying as K-Lo. She’s way out in front on that. He’s not even in her rear view mirror.

“Refund!…refund!….refund?!”

I am almost back to normal. Spent last week as one of the living dead (sort of like K-Lo’s life).

I was very concerned about you. The flu this year is a killer.

“..stop salivating over Ann Coulter.”

Wouldn’t that make her hetero? Or is there a special category for that sort of thing?

Interestingly, there do not appear to be any comments on K-lo’s blog for her post. Either they are being deleted in moderation or even her regulars think it is too stupid to comment on.

From the folks that constantly bitch, “WAAH! Michelle Obama’s tryin’ to force us to eat healthy!” comes marriage advice from an illiterate 37-year-old spinster.

If I may hijack this thread momentarily from the subject of the lamentations of America’s most reluctant virgin to one that must be almost as near and dear to TBogg’s heart: The resignation of Pope Ratzi. Let me begin this by saying that I am not exactly a fan of Pope Benedict II; however, since I am unhampered by K-Lo’s confirmation and belief steeped in alleged Catholic values, I suppose it’s moot. However, with his resignation from the Papal office for health reasons, the Pope deserves more than a modicum of credit–IMHO. Whether one seeks office as leader of the free world, or muscles his way to the top of the heap in the toughest criminal syndicate in Christendom, the people who occupy powerful leadership positions tend to be egoists who are never short on vanity. And once they have it, they cling mightily to that power. I had visions of a cadre of Cardinals scurrying around St. Peter’s Basilica before X-mas Mass a few years hence, trying to peel a paranoid-dementia-stricken Benedict II from atop the Bernini Bronzes as he yelled: “You’ll have to pry the keys to the Pope mobile from my cold, dead hands!” in perfect Latin. Not a pretty thought. But in reality, similar scenes play out across this country every day–albeit on a smaller scale.

The populations of Europe and the United States–traditional Catholic strongholds–are aging. If the Pope wanted to do his congregants a favor, he should encourage them to organize their affairs. Plan for retirement if you are younger. Make a will or other plan for disposition of assets if you are older. Organize your important papers in one place–preferably a fireproof cabinet or safe. Consider an advanced directive. And for god’s sake, clean out the tchochkes, furniture, books and pictures in closets and stuff that’s moldering in the basement–you know, that stuff you keep threatening to show the grandkids–so your kids don’t wind up hauling 19 pickup truck loads of crap to the local dump when you move to Casa de Elder Storage.

Just saying….

I think if you invite the “single men and women from work or church” over ON THE SAME NIGHT as you’ve asked your other friends to leave their kids at your house for a few hours, you will be discouraging marriage, or at the very least, kid-having, as those singles get to see it up close, even if for only those few hours.

Correction: Should be Benedict XVI. Mea culpa–non-Catholic!

Curiously, weirdly, I was just teaching today, kind of incidentally to the main things we were discussing, some 5th century Athenian ways that children were socialized/constructed into thinking “marriage!” as a key telos in life. (Little little boys getting their first taste of wine in a festival to Dionysus, in which boys also stepped in the procession of marriage of Dionysus to the wife of one of the archon’s — a picture is worth a thousand words…..) Anyway, I guess I might have sounded like K-Lo. But not, and I didn’t have to worry that my students thought I might have sounded like her.

Yeah, we’re here because we’re here because we’re here. Societies work hard to replicate themselves, that is, continue the people and institutions that will make life go on. But societies that succeed have some imagination, ya know? “Replicate” is a nice word if you really examine it. Like mimesis. Same, but not the same. NOTE THE SAME. Life continues, we are here, because of same, and just as important, not the same.

Remove E from enthusiastic NOTE.

What next? A piece on Olympic weightlifting by Stephen Hawking?

My Google Translate tells me the perfect Latin for tchotchke is…

tchotchke. Which is also the perfect Norwegian. Who knew?

For the NRO’s next cruise, I recommend Carnival.