^~~Your Cheatin' Heart....^~~

      Ah, the eternal question: can a man and woman just be friends? Well, duh, yes, I'm sure most of you are saying, especially the guys, remembering those women they desperately wanted to humpty-hump over the years but who condemned them to the physical exile of being "just a friend." (I can hear all the guys reading this sighing as they recall those exercises in symbolic castration.) In Gene W's column this week, though, there's another perspective that should make all of you feel a little bit better. This blog, however, has to note these words: "Women understand that infidelity is a complicated and nuanced subject. We understand that in a marriage, any untoward intimacy with someone else constitutes infidelity." *Doctor J chuckles cynically, and then begins to laugh so hysterically that his chair rolls out from beneath him and he lands ass-first on the ground with a thud slightly louder than one caused by meteor crashing to Earth somewhere in the craggy tors of the Himalayas* Yeah, that's right.... (Pay absolutely no attention to the facetious nodding implied with that statement.) Yeah. Right. *Doctor J collapses in a fit of giggles that lasts only slightly longer than a James Cameron film* Sorry, I was just remembering a joke someone told me.... *voice cracking, trying desperately to deadpan it* Seriously.... *a slight crack in the facade* I'm sorry, it was a really funny joke.... *complete embarrassed eruption into laughter* [In a tortured falsetto] Excuse me, I have to go take care of.... *Dr J walks away, his back jiggling like so much gelatinous dessert*