the absolute WTFery of the current cnn.com article

That kinda reminds me of the person I was talking to a few weeks back. In a nutshell, my Dad had some problems with his land in KY: a neighbour moved a fence to grab a few hundred yards of Dad's land, counting on the fact that

i) Dad lives abroad
2) It would cost a lot of money for Dad to contest this through the courts
3) An American court would probably back the native landgrabber over the "absentee" landowner anyway

After I'd finished explaining this to the person, they replied - and I kid you not - with, "Well, if your Dad lives abroad and hardly ever visits I can see the neighbour's point."

I was, WTF? If the neighbour wants Dad's land, he should come over and BUY IT FROM HIM FAIR AND SQUARE, not just nick it!

And I feel this bears a rough resemblance to my objections about a partner cheating. If the person can't hack monogamy, they shouldn't get married. If they do get married and it doesn't work out, they have the honorable option of LEAVING. Underhand sneaky behaviour with a retrospective justification of "the other person is not 100% perfect so I can behave badly myself" just doesn't cut it.

Huge good luck with Otakon!