"Dad, at least you didn't get busted playing golf"

Question to Steward Copeland of the Police: Sting was photographed outside the Relax bordello in Hamburg in September. Were you tempted to join him?
SC: He never asked us to go with him! His 17-year-old daughter said it best, though: "Dad, at least you didn't get busted playing golf." None of The Police play golf. More...

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An Ideal Husband

To fully appreciate this story you have to know that Oscar Wilde wrote over a hundred years ago the comedy "An Ideal Husband," and later on was thrown into prison because of a homosexual relationship. Maureen Dowd, the writer of the column, as far as I remember is single, and once remarked about her own state that men are scared by strong women.

By MAUREEN DOWD (NY Times)
This weekend, we celebrate our great American pastime: messy celebrity divorces. There’s the Christie Brinkley/Peter Cook fireworks on Long Island and the Madonna/Guy Ritchie/A-Rod Roman candle in New York. So how do you avoid a relationship where you end up saying, “The man who I was living with, I just didn’t know who he was” — as Brinkley did in court when talking about her husband’s $3,000-a-month Internet porn and swinger site habit? (Not to mention the 18-year-old mistress/assistant.)

Father Pat Connor, a 79-year-old Catholic priest born in Australia and based in Bordentown, N.J., has spent his celibate life — including nine years as a missionary in India — mulling connubial bliss. His decades of marriage counseling led him to distill some “mostly common sense” advice about how to dodge mates who would maul your happiness. More...