(No More) Mr. Nice Guy

On the (rare, lately) occasions when my children take long enough naps for me to post on this blog, I try to keep it controversy- and negativity-free. Plenty of both in the world already, that's how I look at it. But today–today I'm going to step outside that. Because it happened again the other day.

I was in the library, browsing through the "romance" section, because I like a good guaranteed happily-ever-after kind of story now and again. And in flipping through the first pages of one...