Gay, Joy, Marriage - Just Wrong From Top-To-Bottom,...

After adultery, some people still have honor, even if it's tarnished:

LOS ANGELES (AP) - In his first public speech since resigning as head of the CIA, David Petraeus apologized for the extramarital affair that "caused such pain for my family, friends and supporters." 

The hero of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struck a somber, apologetic tone as he spoke to about 600 people, including his wife and many uniformed and decorated veterans, at the University of Southern California's annual ROTC dinner on Tuesday. 

"I know I can never fully assuage the pain that I inflicted on those closest to me and a number of others," Petraeus said.

"And a number of others." Sure. Even people he doesn't know. Adulterers can never know, because they're not like the rest of us. Because - through their willing actions and the pain they knowingly inflict on others - they stand apart from society. They don't care because nobody else matters. If they did, it never would've happened. You can't be a sociopath and feel as normal people do.

For instance, last night I watched Cindy Kleine's Phyllis & Harold, a documentary that Peter Hammond of Boxoffice Magazine called "One of the most profound movies about married life I have ever seen." But it's not really about "married life." It's about a selfish, stereotypically "dissatisfied" woman who enlists her two feminist daughter's help (one of whom is the filmmaker) to facilitate her life-long sexual betrayal of the husband who supported and adored them. How "profound" is her (and her daughter's) narcissism - and the constant betrayal that springs from it? Even when her husband dies, Phyllis has to be reminded his death isn't about her. 

And so, last night, I sat alone in the dark, mouth open in a silent scream, watching this suburban display of pure evil - stung - as though I had been attacked by bees. 

And now I wake up, and good ol' "General Betrayus" digs it all up again, because he's part of it. Another broken spoke in our newly-created NewAge society's wicked wheel. A monster who dedicated his life to lying about who and what he is, what's happening around us, and who we can trust. 

The good general can't know I'm now one of his "number of others."

I know the loathsome Cindy Kleine (and Peter Hammond) would've called his trysts "Scenes From A Marriage" or some shit, but they'd be wrong: 

David Petraeus is only engaged in a marriage now,...