Sitting in an area establishment of the large-chain variety, I just witnessed a small, black SUV pull in line for the drive-up window. On its back window was the written, trumpeted message, "Just Married!" The proud declaration brought to mind a current piece in The Atlantic magazine, questioning whether our most sacred institution is a doomed dinosaur mired in a tarpit.

Personally, I'm constantly amazed that people still choose to get married. All the poetry and literature that's been written over all the past centuries, and people still choose to make the same mistake over and over again.

Someone once said or wrote: "The greatest vested interest is not property, but ignorance." I couldn't be in more agreement.