This Guy Really, Really Wanted to Get Married

So he married a woman a few hours after he met her. They just celebrated their 10th anniversary.

Pretty amazing.

Today Wants to Fix You Up

According to Today‘s website:

“If you or someone you know is single and wants to be matched up, we want to hear from you! Tell us about yourself or your friend or family member, including location, interests, hobbies and ideal qualities for a partner to have. Then, with the help of matchmakers, TODAY will send some lucky singles on a date with a hand-picked mate! Please also attach a photo of the hopeful single to the personal e-mail message that appears and send.”

Despite the use of the terms “hopeful single” and “hand-picked mate,” I guess it could be fun. If you’re interested, click here.

Why Eat Healthfully When You Can Get Liposuction Instead?

In a segment entitled, “Drama Over the Posh Spice” diet, The Today Show eviscerated the authors of Skinny Bitch (prefacing the attack by warning parents to lower their TVs to avoid scaring children with the word “Bitch,” which Today altered to read “B*tch,” lest anybody’s eyes fall out).

Today noted that sales for Skinny Bitch, a book that promotes eschewing meat and dairy, took off after Victoria (Posh Spice) Beckham had been photographed holding the book. Beckham’s publicity machine later denied their client follows “fad diets” and instead eats a diet high in fruit, vegetables, and fish. Which is pretty much what the Skinny Bitch authors promote, less the fish.

If you’re willing to sit through a commercial, you can check out the report here.

For further commentary by the show’s horrified producer, click here. In questioning the authors’ right to write a book about healthy eating, he writes, “..last I checked, being around skinny people hardly makes one an authority on how they got that way.”

Wuh?

Here’s the ironic thing about the Today segment: They preceded it with an “expose” disputing diet and exercise as a means of spot fat reduction. Their source? A plastic surgeon. That’s right. The lone, single, solitary source Janice Lieberman used in her segment dismissing the effectiveness of diet and exercise was–ta da!– a plastic surgeon. Watch her report here.

What, pray tell, does the surgeon recommend for spot reduction?

You guessed it, Baby: Liposuction.

The Today Show is officially headed off the rails. (And please do not insult me, Matt and Meredith, by implying that you’re offended by the word “bitch,” or that you’ve never used it.)

Let’s face it: The vegan diet Skinny Bitch promotes may not be for everybody. I’ve tried to give up cheese more times than I can count, and it just ain’t happening. And, although I gave up meat for Lent and haven’t turned back, my family likes it and continues to eat it.

That said, since I’ve given up meat, my LDL and triglyceride levels returned to normal. Would lipo have yielded such healthful results?

I don’t think so.

Who Wears the Pants In Your Relationship?

I loathe that expression, but I did like The Today Show’s encouraging report about power in relationships this morning. Guests Helen Fisher and Ian Kerner made some brilliant points.

Click here to check it out.

Keys to a Happy Marriage

I completely agree with this report from The Today Show (it’s worth watching if you can put up with the 30-second commercial before it starts).

Nothing kills romance faster than a partner who doesn’t keep up with his or her share of the housework.

A woman I know and love recently married a man who’s lived on his own for many years. She moved into his house, but she’s taken on all the household chores: the cooking, the cleaning, the laundry, everything.

I can’t imagine why. You figure the guy cleaned the toilet once or twice since he moved out of Mommy and Daddy’s house.

I’m not necessarily blaming him, either. Why did my friend assume the housework? Did he ask her to? Or she she take it upon herself.

They’ve only been married two months, and she already resents it. Resentment is a passion-killer.

Paris Hilton Back In Jail

If you’re here for dating advice, scroll down a bit. In the meantime, I have to get something off my chest.

The news media are incensed about Paris Hilton’s latest statement:

“I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail for what I had done by the media, public and city officials. I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.”

The plastic coifs on TV laughed their heads off. “Since when is Paris Hilton interested in international affairs?” they scoffed.

Whether Miss Hilton’s concern is genuine or not is beside the point. Like her or hate her, our men and women remain in Iraq. There are more important things going on in the world besides Paris Hilton.

Try telling that to NBC. The Today Show knuckleheads followed up an in-depth segment on the girl’s incarceration (featuring former Westchester County DA Jeanine Pirro and TV psychologist Dr. Keith Ablow) with breaking news about British women discovering a cure for wrinkles.