In no state in America is it legal for a landlord to demand their tenants lead a "healthy lifestyle" in order to rent property.

Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

Don't let a friend make you feel publicly uncomfortable indefinitely just because they're probably a lesbian.