Massacre Valentine's Day

If you want to save some money this year, try being erudite with your girlfriend. Quote something from the LA Times editorial page:

EDITORIAL
Massacre Valentine's Day

ST. VALENTINE WAS SUPPOSEDLY a martyred 3rd century priest, not a shill for the flower industry or a marketing genius for a certain Kansas City, Mo., greeting-card titan. Still, with all due respect to his martyrdom, we think it's high time the holiday bearing his name be abolished.

Call us hopeless romantics on this page, but we find that true love is overwhelming, irrepressible and spontaneous. Romance shouldn't be confined to a particular day; nor need it be triggered by the arrival of Feb. 14. Compulsory love is an oxymoron.

Good luck with that...

Actually, there's more in there. If that doesn't cause some domestic disturbance, maybe you're not in love:

Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fisher said her research suggests that Prozac, Zoloft and other antidepressants may be keeping millions of Americans from falling head over heels. According to her theory, the medications stave off depression by regulating the exact part of the brain's neurochemistry associated with the mad feelings of new love.

Time to cut down on the Prozac, perhaps?

Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/8plan